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Innovation
Acquiring the concepts of non-technical skills (NTS) beyond a superficial level is a challenge for healthcare professionals and simulation faculty. Current simulation-based approaches to teach NTS are challeng...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:23
Published on: 22 July 2016
Editorial
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:22
Published on: 23 June 2016
Innovation
This paper proposes simulation-based enactment of care as an innovative and fruitful means of engaging patients and clinicians to create collaborative solutions to healthcare issues. This use of simulation is ...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:19
Published on: 15 June 2016
Research
Chest tube insertion is required for most cases of traumatic pneumothorax. However, this procedure entails risks of potentially life-threatening complications. A “surgical” approach is widely recommended to mi...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:21
Published on: 10 June 2016
Research
Non-technical skills (NTS) such as leadership and team work are important in providing good quality of care. One system to assess physicians’ NTS is the Anesthesiologists’ Non-Technical Skills (ANTS) system. T...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:18
Published on: 8 June 2016
Research
Cognitive overload can inhibit learning, and cognitive load theory-based instructional design principles can be used to optimize learning situations. This study aims to investigate the effect of implementing c...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:20
Published on: 7 June 2016
Debate article
Transitions, or periods of change, in medical career pathways can be challenging episodes, requiring the transitioning clinician to take on new roles and responsibilities, adapt to new cultural dynamics, chang...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:14
Published on: 3 June 2016
Research
The Clinical Placement Enhancement Program (CPEP) is a simulation course for medical students learning the core topics of cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, incorporating patient safety and professionali...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:15
Published on: 30 May 2016
Research
The identification of developmental curve patterns generated by a simulation-based educational method and the variables that can accelerate the learning process will result in cost-effective training. This stu...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:16
Published on: 25 May 2016
Research
Immersion is important for simulation-based education; however, questionnaire-based instruments to measure immersion have some limitations. The aim of the present work is to develop a new instrument to measure...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:17
Published on: 23 May 2016
Commentary
Simulation education can be costly—however, costs need to be considered against what you get in return to determine whether these costs are justified. Unfortunately in simulation education, evaluations that yi...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:13
Published on: 17 May 2016
Research
Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) have been used for many years within healthcare programmes as a measure of students’ and clinicians’ clinical performance. OSCEs are a form of simulation and ...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:10
Published on: 2 April 2016
Research
Debriefing is a significant component of simulation-based education (SBE). Regardless of how and where immersive simulation is used to support learning, debriefing has a critical role to optimise learning outc...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:12
Published on: 2 April 2016
Innovation
In this paper, we report on a series of placements for clinical exercise physiology students in a simulation-based education environment with older, independent adults. The purpose of these placement opportuni...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:11
Published on: 2 April 2016
Research
Upon graduation, physiotherapists are required to manage clinical caseloads involving deteriorating patients with complex conditions. In particular, emergency on-call physiotherapists are required to provide r...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:9
Published on: 22 March 2016
Research
The aim of this paper is to explore how contextualization of a healthcare simulation scenarios impacts immersion, by using a novel objective instrument, the Immersion Score Rating Instrument. This instrument c...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:8
Published on: 8 March 2016
Commentary
Effective practice is informed by underlying theoretical models. Better awareness and understanding of such models can enhance reflection by practitioners on their current educational activities and so help dr...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:7
Published on: 23 February 2016
Research
The need to evaluate the effectiveness of SPs in improving clinical competence has attracted a heightened interest across the healthcare professions, with some prevailing gaps in their evidence. Using a scopin...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:6
Published on: 16 February 2016
Innovation
Catastrophic haemorrhage from extremity injuries has for a long time been the single most common cause of preventable death in the military environment. The effective use of extremity tourniquets has increased...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:5
Published on: 9 February 2016
Research
Simulation is widely used in health professional education. The convention that learners are actively involved may limit access to this educational method. The aim of this paper is to review the evidence for l...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:4
Published on: 11 January 2016
Research
Simulated patients (SP) contribute to health professional education for communication, clinical skills teaching, and assessment. Although a significant body of literature exists on the involvement of adult SPs...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:1
Published on: 11 January 2016
Editorial
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:2
Published on: 11 January 2016
Review
Simulation-based education (SBE) has the potential to misrepresent clinical practice as relatively simplistic, and as being made safer through simplistic behavioural explanations. This review provides an overv...
Advances in Simulation 2016 1:3
Published on: 11 January 2016
