Introduction: One of the challenges of delivering safe, reliable, quality health care is
ensuring the workforce have access to the right training at the right time wherever they are …

Effective, professional and socially competent dialogue of health care providers with their
patients is essential to best practice in medicine. To identify, categorize and quantify salient …

The specialty of neurocritical care developed out of a need to care for post-neurosurgical
patients and polio patients around the turn of the twentieth century. However, it was not until …

Debriefing is a crucial aspect of simulation-based educational interventions in healthcare.
This section of this pocket book aims to clarify what debriefing is really about and why it is …

Methods Abstracts from four major international SBME conferences (for 2014 and 2015)
were reviewed. Abstracts were classified using the framework offered by Cook et al who …

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the validity of using oral surgery simulation
models as a tool to assess the psychomotor skills of dental students. Materials and Methods …

The provision of high quality education and training is paramount in healthcare contexts to
ensure graduates are trained according to the needs of stakeholders and are competent to …

Patients are heavily reliant on healthcare providers being knowledgeable and highly
competent in a broad range of skills underpinned by sound knowledge. Some of these skills …

The integration of technology into the education and continuous professional education of
allied health professionals is evolving. Integrating simulation as an authentic instructional …

Purpose Junior doctors rotating through psychiatry often practise in isolated environments
with little prior experience in this field. This can cause anxiety amongst doctors, and may …