Medical simulation training most often means any clinical simulation used to train medical physicians. To best comprehend how these medical simulations work, one must understand the physician’s scope of practice and specific roles and responsibilities inherent across medicine. Specifically, medical simulation focuses on training objectives such as learning how to diagnose, treat, perform surgery, and [...]

The MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, Massachusetts, has recently developed a clinical simulation track within the school’s PhD in Health Professions Education (HPEd) program. Hoping to expand upon the education of simulationists, the institute has recently developed a new master’s degree program in health professions education track with simulation-based education (SBE) and simulation [...]

Healthcare simulation company, Nasco Healthcare, remains committed to promoting industry best practices to establish increased patient safety outcomes and fewer lives lost. As the company continually advances available clinical simulation products, Nasco Healthcare simultaneously works to meet the ever-changing needs of frontline healthcare workers. Today, this demand means incorporating a comprehensive portfolio of skills trainers [...]

The role of simulation in healthcare education is to transition an academic learner to a practicing clinician. However, this is a complex process of development, so the best way to understand this transition is to consider the stages a clinical learner goes through to become a competent healthcare provider. Learners cannot possibly grasp all aspects [...]