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Serious games for health: three steps forwards

Serious games are educational tools which are more and more used in patient and health professional education. In this article, we discuss three main points that developers and educators need to address during...

Authors: David Drummond, Alice Hadchouel and Antoine Tesnière

Simulation and mental health outcomes: a scoping review

A scoping review was conducted in order to map and determine the gaps in literature on the impact of simulation as an educational approach to improve mental health care outcomes. As it became apparent that no ...

Authors: Brett Williams, Priya Reddy, Stuart Marshall, Bronwyn Beovich and Lesley McKarney

Sharing simulation-based training courses between institutions: opportunities and challenges

Sharing simulation-based training (SBT) courses between institutions could reduce time to develop new content but also presents challenges. We evaluate the process of sharing SBT courses across institutions in...

Authors: Torrey A. Laack, Ellen A. Lones, Donna R. Schumacher, Frances M. Todd and David A. Cook

Simulation as a toolkit—understanding the perils of blood transfusion in a complex health care environment

Administration of blood is a complex process requiring vigilance and effective teamwork. Despite strict policies and training on blood administration, errors still occur and can lead to mistransfusion with adv...

Authors: Douglas M. Campbell, Laya Poost-Foroosh, Katerina Pavenski, Maya Contreras, Fahad Alam, Jason Lee and Patricia Houston

Validation of educational assessments: a primer for simulation and beyond

Simulation plays a vital role in health professions assessment. This review provides a primer on assessment validation for educators and education researchers. We focus on simulation-based assessment of health...

Authors: David A. Cook and Rose Hatala

“Hand-it-on”: an innovative simulation on the relation of non-technical skills to healthcare

Non-technical skills (NTS) are an integral part of the abilities healthcare professionals need to optimally care for patients. Integrating NTS into the already complex tasks of healthcare can be a challenge fo...

Authors: Peter Dieckmann, Louise Graae Zeltner and Anne-Mette Helsø

A conceptual framework of game-informed principles for health professions education

Games have been used for training purposes for many years, but their use remains somewhat underdeveloped and under-theorized in health professional education. This paper considers the basis for using serious g...

Authors: Rachel H. Ellaway

How to debrief teamwork interactions: using circular questions to explore and change team interaction patterns

We submit that interaction patterns within healthcare teams should be more comprehensively explored during debriefings in simulation-based training because of their importance for clinical performance. We desc...

Authors: Michaela Kolbe, Adrian Marty, Julia Seelandt and Bastian Grande

Simulation reframed

Simulation is firmly established as a mainstay of clinical education, and extensive research has demonstrated its value. Current practice uses inanimate simulators (with a range of complexity, sophistication a...

Authors: Roger L. Kneebone

Ethical reasoning through simulation: a phenomenological analysis of student experience

Medical students transitioning into professional practice feel underprepared to deal with the emotional complexities of real-life ethical situations. Simulation-based learning (SBL) may provide a safe environm...

Authors: Gareth Lewis, Melissa McCullough, Alexander P Maxwell and Gerard J. Gormley

Reporting guidelines for health care simulation research: extensions to the CONSORT and STROBE statements

Simulation-based research (SBR) is rapidly expanding but the quality of reporting needs improvement. For a reader to critically assess a study, the elements of the study need to be clearly reported. Our object...

Authors: Adam Cheng, David Kessler, Ralph Mackinnon, Todd P. Chang, Vinay M. Nadkarni, Elizabeth A. Hunt, Jordan Duval-Arnould, Yiqun Lin, David A. Cook, Martin Pusic, Joshua Hui, David Moher, Matthias Egger and Marc Auerbach

A joint leap into a future of high-quality simulation research—standardizing the reporting of simulation science

Authors: Nick Sevdalis, Debra Nestel, Suzan Kardong-Edgren and David M. Gaba

Non-Technical Skills Bingo—a game to facilitate the learning of complex concepts

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...

Authors: Peter Dieckmann, Ronnie Glavin, Rikke Malene Hartvigsen Grønholm Jepsen and Ralf Krage

From simulation research to education policy: how much evidence is enough?

Authors: Ryan Brydges

Engaging patients and clinicians through simulation: rebalancing the dynamics of care

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 ...

Authors: Roger Kneebone, Sharon-Marie Weldon and Fernando Bello

Impact of simulation-based training in surgical chest tube insertion on a model of traumatic pneumothorax

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...

Authors: Alexandre Léger, Aiham Ghazali, Franck Petitpas, Youcef Guéchi, Amélie Boureau-Voultoury and Denis Oriot

The reliability and usability of the Anesthesiologists’ Non-Technical Skills (ANTS) system in simulation 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...

Authors: Laura Zwaan, Lian Tjon Soei Len, Cordula Wagner, Dick van Groeningen, Mark Kolenbrander and Ralf Krage

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