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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