Effective medical education and training are paramount for developing competent health care professionals. Using low-cost, three-dimensional (3D) printed task trainers provides medical students and resident physicians with realistic and deliberate practice in gynecological procedures. This approach ensures a safe and effective environment for honing clinical skills, ultimately preparing health care professionals to deliver high-quality patient [...]
SimVS’ new technology redefines healthcare simulation and expands learning opportunities in the lab, classroom, and online. SimVS is tablet-based life-like simulated medical equipment that can be utilized with manikins and standardized patients to create a realistic learning environment for healthcare professionals to incorporate critical thinking with hands-on skills to develop clinical judgment. SimVS is the [...]
The process to evaluate a healthcare simulation course is an arduous task a lot of the time. Often, the evaluation process can be left to the last minute or not as intentionally considered as possible in an ideal world. Evaluations, particularly with a formalized tool, allow healthcare simulation faculty to review the clinical simulation-based education [...]
First-level nursing students often experience high levels of anxiety and a lack of enthusiasm when entering a live simulation environment for the first time. While heightened emotions can be beneficial to comprehensive learning, excess anxiety and a lack of enthusiasm can be detrimental to first-level nursing students. Simulation coordinators and nursing instructors acknowledge the value [...]
Virtual Reality in healthcare simulation has grown exponentially since Covid – 19 pandemic. Healthcare Simulation has been incorporated into the Doctor of Pharmacy curricula. According to the Healthcare Simulation Dictionary, Virtual Reality is the use of computer technology to create an interactive three-dimensional world in which the objects have a sense of spatial presence in [...]
As the clinical simulation community rises after a culture of many cancellations post the global COVID-19 pandemic and chronic recruitment and retention problems for staff, the need to restart and refresh clinical simulation programs is a reality for many globally. There are many challenges faced by clinical simulation faculty across the globe to advocate for [...]
