Advances in Simulation is the official journal of the Society for Simulation in Europe (SESAM).
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Citation: Advances in Simulation 2017 2:18
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Implementing simulation in a nursing education programme: a case report from Tanzania
This paper presents a description of, and some reflections around, the experience of implementing simulation-based education within a nursing education programme in a low-income context. The students in the nu...
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Distributed Simulation as a modelling tool for the development of a simulation-based training programme for cardiovascular specialties
Distributed Simulation is the concept of portable, high-fidelity immersive simulation. Here, it is used for the development of a simulation-based training programme for cardiovascular ...
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Simulation in the clinical setting: towards a standard lexicon
Simulation-based educational activities are happening in the clinical environment but are not all uniform in terms of their objectives, delivery, or outputs. While these activities all provide an opportunity f...
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Tracing the prescription journey: a qualitative evaluation of an interprofessional simulation-based learning activity
In many countries across the world, the majority of prescribing occurs within the community setting. Close collaboration between general practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists is required to ensure effective ther...
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A simulated “Night-onCall” to assess and address the readiness-for-internship of transitioning medical students
Transitioning medical students are anxious about their readiness-for-internship, as are their residency program directors and teaching hospital leadership responsible for care quality and patient safety. A rea...
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Early acquisition of non-technical skills using a blended approach to simulation-based medical education
Non-technical skills are emerging as an important component of postgraduate medical education. Between 2013 and 2016, a new blended training program incorporating non-technical skills was introduced at an Aust...
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Cumulative evaluation data: pediatric airway management simulation courses for pediatric residents
To utilize cumulative evaluation data of the pediatric airway management simulation-based learning course on knowledge and practical skills of residents in the Saudi Commission for Health Speciality (SCFHS) in...
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The Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) Standards of Best Practice (SOBP)
In this paper, we define the Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) Standards of Best Practice (SOBP) for those working with human role players who interact with learners in a wide range of exper...
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An institution-wide approach to submission, review, and funding of simulation-based curricula
This article describes the development, implementation, and modification of an institutional process to evaluate and fund graduate medical education simulation curricula. The goals of this activity were to (a)...
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Students’ understanding of teamwork and professional roles after interprofessional simulation—a qualitative analysis
This study explores how interprofessional simulation-based education (IPSE) can contribute to a change in students’ understanding of teamwork and professional roles. A series of 1-day training sessions was arr...
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The effects of active (hot-seat) versus observer roles during simulation-based training on stress levels and non-technical performance: a randomized trial
Active ‘hands-on’ participation in the ‘hot-seat’ during immersive simulation-based training (SBT) induces stress for participants, which is believed to be necessary to improve performance. We hypothesized tha...
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Conducting multicenter research in healthcare simulation: Lessons learned from the INSPIRE network
Simulation-based research has grown substantially over the past two decades; however, relatively few published simulation studies are multicenter in nature. Multicenter research confers many distinct advantage...
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An experimental study on the impact of clinical interruptions on simulated trainee performances of central venous catheterization
Interruptions are common in the healthcare setting. This experimental study compares the effects of interruptions on simulated performances of central venous catheterization during a highly versus minimally co...
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Designing in situ simulation in the emergency department: evaluating safety attitudes amongst physicians and nurses
This intervention study aimed to enhance patient safety attitudes through the design of an in situ simulation program based on a needs analysis involving thematic analysis of patient safety data and short-term...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A joint leap into a future of high-quality simulation research—standardizing the reporting of simulation science
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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...
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From simulation research to education policy: how much evidence is enough?
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Citation: Advances in Simulation 2016 1:1
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Journal Impact Factor: 2.8
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Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.333
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.759Speed 2023
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