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The effect of implementing cognitive load theory-based design principles in virtual reality simulation training of surgical skills: a randomized controlled trial

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...

Authors: Steven Arild Wuyts Andersen, Peter Trier Mikkelsen, Lars Konge, Per Cayé-Thomasen and Mads Sølvsten Sørensen

Supporting transitions in medical career pathways: the role of simulation-based education

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...

Authors: Jennifer Cleland, Rona Patey, Ian Thomas, Kenneth Walker, Paul O’Connor and Stephanie Russ

Intensive simulation versus control in the assessment of time to skill competency and confidence of medical students to assess and manage cardiovascular and respiratory conditions—a pseudo-randomised trial

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...

Authors: Neil J. Cunningham, Robert O’Brien, Tracey Weiland, Julian van Dijk and Stuart Dilley

Learning curve patterns generated by a training method for laparoscopic small bowel anastomosis

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...

Authors: Jose Carlos Manuel-Palazuelos, María Riaño-Molleda, José Luis Ruiz-Gómez, Jose Ignacio Martín-Parra, Carlos Redondo-Figuero and José María Maestre

Measuring participants’ immersion in healthcare simulation: the development of an instrument

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...

Authors: Magnus Andersson Hagiwara, Per Backlund, Hanna Maurin Söderholm, Lars Lundberg, Mikael Lebram and Henrik Engström

Issues of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness for simulation in health professions education

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...

Authors: Stephen Maloney and Terry Haines

“Thinking on your feet”—a qualitative study of debriefing practice

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...

Authors: Kristian Krogh, Margaret Bearman and Debra Nestel

Clinical exercise physiology students learning with older adults: an innovative simulation-based education programme

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...

Authors: Louise Horstmanshof, Robert G. Lingard, Sonja Coetzee and Louise P. Waddell

OSCE best practice guidelines—applicability for nursing simulations

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 ...

Authors: Michelle A. Kelly, Marion L. Mitchell, Amanda Henderson, Carol A. Jeffrey, Michele Groves, Duncan D. Nulty, Pauline Glover and Sabina Knight

Using video-reflexive ethnography and simulation-based education to explore patient management and error recognition by pre-registration physiotherapists

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...

Authors: Suzanne Gough, Abebaw Mengistu Yohannes and Janice Murray

The impact of contextualization on immersion in healthcare simulation

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...

Authors: Henrik Engström, Magnus Andersson Hagiwara, Per Backlund, Mikael Lebram, Lars Lundberg, Mikael Johannesson, Anders Sterner and Hanna Maurin Söderholm

Lessons for simulation-based education from social psychology

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...

Authors: Ronnie J. Glavin

Are simulated patients effective in facilitating development of clinical competence for healthcare students? A scoping review

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...

Authors: Brett Williams and Jane Jee Yeon Song

A hybrid simulator model for the control of catastrophic external junctional haemorrhage in the military environment

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...

Authors: Katarina Silverplats, Anders Jonsson and Lars Lundberg

Observer roles that optimise learning in healthcare simulation education: a systematic review

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...

Authors: Stephanie O’Regan, Elizabeth Molloy, Leonie Watterson and Debra Nestel

Complexity in simulation-based education: exploring the role of hindsight bias

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...

Authors: Al Motavalli and Debra Nestel

Open access publishing in health and social care simulation research – Advances in Simulation

Authors: Debra Nestel

A systematic review: Children & Adolescents as simulated patients in health professional education

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...

Authors: Andrée Gamble, Margaret Bearman and Debra Nestel