Purpose In simulation-based education (SBE), educators integrate their professional
experiences to prepare learners for real world practice and may embed unproductive …

Simulation-based medical education has gained tremendous popularity over the past two
decades. Driven by the patient safety movement, changes in the educational opportunities …

Objectives Workplace-based assessment (WBA) is a key requirement of competency-based
medical education in postgraduate surgical education. Although simulated workplace-based …

As health care simulation continues to mature, the literature has shifted from descriptive
narratives about “doing” simulation towards a greater focus on the scholarship of simulation …

The headache is surprisingly strong and of a quality that is so different from all I knew before.
The start was sudden and then it did not go away.“Tumor?”, I think;“Tension in the muscle” …

Newly graduated healthcare workers should appreciate the importance of teamwork and
each profession's unique role in a multi-disciplinary team. At Medunsa, an institution for …

Patient simulation in all its forms is widely used in clinical education with the key aims of
improving learners' competence and confidence, improving patient safety and reducing …

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drills are unable to translate these to performance in a real match. 5 Similarly, we have …

Active learning techniques encourage students to participate in acquiring skills and
knowledge. One technique that encourages active learning is patient simulation. Patient …