Background Nowadays the training in mitral valve (MV) surgery is competitive and difficult due to reasons including limited exposure, complexity of 3D structure of MV, complexity of surgical techniques used in MV repair and low rate of MV surgery in some centres. Therefore low-fidelity simulation in MV surgery becomes a necessity. We compare between the training in dry and wet lab simulation in...

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A predictor battery of cognitive ability, personality, and low fidelity simulation measures was completed by a sample of 193 U.S.-based customer service representatives. The results showed cognitive ability and simulation scores to be significantly correlated with final training course scores, whereas personality scales were not. Following simultaneous regression analysis, a unit-weighted compo...

TOPIC: Education, Research, and Quality Improvement TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: Internal Medicine (IM) resident physicians lack confidence knowledge on how to manage basic emergent clinical situations involving tracheostomy. High fidelity simulation is an effective training medium address such deficiencies but under-researched under-utilized. This prospective, quantitative pilot educ...

We describe a computationally efficient simulation-driven design methodology for single-element airfoils at high-lift conditions. Direct optimization of an accurate but computationally expensive high-fidelity simulation model based on Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations is replaced by iterative updating and re-optimization of a cheap surrogate. The surrogate model exploits a low-fidelity ...

Dear Editor: Wang et al. should be congratulated for giving a comprehensive review of simulation training in healthcare. Whilst all the points they make are correct, they concentrate on the benefits of simulation whilst largely ignoring the downsides of this new modality of medical education. The advantages of simulation by and large outweigh the disadvantages; however, the disadvantages are wo...