BACKGROUND Trauma team training using simulation has become an educational compensation for a low number of severe trauma patients in 49 of Norway's 50 trauma hospitals for the last 12 years. The hospitals' own simple mannequins have been employed, to enable training without being dependent on expensive and advanced simulators. We wanted to assess the participants' assessment of using a standar...

care professionals in an educational setting that would be modeled in clinical practice. Instructors from each discipline collaborated on the learning objectives for the simulation. Each discipline specified the expectations and the perceived roles their student would have within the simulation. The simulation allowed students the opportunity to interact with each other to provide safe and effe...

Students in the Medical College of Georgia Nursing Anesthesia Program, Augusta, Ga, use human patient simulation as an avenue for advanced education. Software drives the simulation model through a myriad of programmed patient scenarios. Individually controlled physiologic variables help students understand how to manage a critically ill patient. Similar technology provides students the opportun...

OBJECTIVES Overcrowding in the emergency department (ED) is common in the UK as in other countries worldwide. Computer simulation is one approach used for understanding the causes of ED overcrowding and assessing the likely impact of changes to the delivery of emergency care. However, little is known about the usefulness of computer simulation for analysis of ED patient flow. We undertook a sys...

Emergency departments (EDs) have been becoming increasingly congested due to the combined impacts of growing demand, access block and increased clinical capability of the EDs. This congestion has known to have adverse impacts on the performance of the healthcare services. Attempts to overcome with this challenge have focussed largely on the demand management and the application of system wide p...

Errors in clinical research can be costly, in terms of patient safety, data integrity, and data collection. Data inaccuracy in early subjects of a clinical study may be associated with problems in the design of the protocol, procedures, and data collection tools. High-fidelity patient simulation centers provide an ideal environment to apply human-centered design to clinical trial development. A...

© 2014 Harborside Press® S imulation-based education in medicine represents a teaching paradigm shift. David Gaba, associate dean for Immersive and SimulationBased Learning at Stanford University School of Medicine, describes simulation as a technique, not a technology, that recreates real patient experiences and gives participants the opportunity to learn concepts, develop skills, and practice...