Skills benefits of advanced simulation training

Patient simulation for training basic and advanced clinical skills.

INTRODUCTION Patient simulators are increasingly used in the education and training of healthcare professionals. This paper describes the history of human patient simulator development, the features of contemporary simulators, the acquisition of basic and advanced clinical skills using patient simulators, and the benefits, cost, limitations and effectiveness of this innovative learning modality...

Simulation-based training of surgical skills

First of all, it is important to acknowledge that simulation-based training cannot replace traditional apprenticeship training. New surgical trainees must be supervised by more experienced colleagues during their first real procedures just as simulator trained pilots start out as co-pilots. Furthermore, we need to rethink the extreme focus on simulation equipment that has been the hallmark of t...

Benefits of simulation training in medical education

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Embodied Tutors for Interaction Skills Simulation Training

—This paper describes intelligent virtual tutors for interaction skills training who can serve the roles of demonstrator, coach, trainer, mentor, and observer. These roles meet the needs demanded of tutors across stages of skill learning, stages that were derived from simulation-based individual training designed to meet international distribution standards. Lessons learned regarding elicitatio...

The Forsyth experiment in training of advanced skills hygienists.