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This discussion explores the advantages, limitations, and impact of medical simulation in enhancing doctors' skills. Trained on patient simulators, doctors exhibit superior skills, and new virtual reality surgery simulators improve patient safety. Simulation technology aims to replace or amplify real experiences interactively, helping medical teams communicate effectively and learn from errors. Medical simulation, involving role-playing, task trainers, and computerized simulators, aims to improve clinical and psychological skills, medical education, and patient safety. Balancing emotional stress with professional lessons, simulation helps professionals cope competently with mistakes and reduce errors. Assessing medical competency through simulation ensures reliability and validity, enhancing patient safety and disaster response. Ultimately, medical simulation is a powerful teaching tool that should be utilized effectively to improve clinical outcomes and enhance medical competence across healthcare settings.
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Medical Simulation Pro Con - A Discussion Dr Agnes Ng KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
First Impressions Set-up Manniquin “Actors” Debriefing
Medical Simulation Pro Con- A Discussion (Debate)
Medical Simulation Doctors Trained On Patient Simulators exhibit Superior Skills Beth Israel Medical Centre New Virtual Reality Surgery Simulator hones Surgeons' Skills, Improves Patient Safety Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine Clinical Simulation Technology Used To Improve Communication Of Medical Teams Washington University School of Medicine Science Daily
Medical Simulation Pro Con- A Discussion (perhaps a debate)
Medical Stimulation Simulation is a technique, not technology, to replace or amplify real experiences with guided experiences……. in an interactive fashion Gaba Qual Saf Health Care 2004; 13
Medical Simulation Role Playing Task trainers Computer patient Manniquin simulators
Medical Simulation Limitations Over-expectations
Medical Simulation Hardware & Infrastructure
Medical Simulation Manpower and Training
Medical Educator “SODOTO” • See One • Do One • Teach One
Medical Stimulation Standards & Commitment
Medical Educator “In the Hot-Seat” Medical simulation Communications
Medical Educators Clinical skills Psychological skills (Situation awareness)
Simulation Based Medical Education: an opportunity to learn from errors • Provide professionals with the correct attitude and skills to cope competently with those mistakes that could not be prevented • Reduce occurrences of errors in real life Medical Teacher Vol 27, Issue 3 May 2005
Medical Simulation in professionals Balance between the emotional load associated with the experience and the professional lessons that can be learned.
Medical Simulation “Sharing the Load”
Medical Simulation Trainees “Suspension of Disbelief”
Blurring the boundaries: scenario-based simulation in a clinical setting quasi-clinical scenarios, where inanimate models attached to simulated patients Med Education Vol 39:6, 2005
Looking at the monitors to prompt next move Monitor focused Looking at the monitor to prompt the next move!
Medical simulation • Crises Driven • Crises after Crises • Preventing a Crises
Medical Simulation Resource Intensive and Time consuming Trainers & Trainees
Medical Simulation Initial exposure raises awareness Repeated exposure to simulation improves performance
Medical Simulation High Impact But does it translate into improved clinical outcomes?
Medical Simulation Assessment of Medical Competency
Medical Simulation Competency Assessment Reliability Validity Predictive validity
Defining Systems Expertise: Effective Simulation at the Organisational Level- Implications for Patient Safety, Disaster Surge Capacity, and Facilitating the Systems Interface 2008 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference on the Science of Simulation
2008 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference on the Science of Simulation • Objective methods and measures to demonstrate simulator training actually improves patient safety • Effective feedback of information from error reporting systems into simulation training to improve patient safety • Methods and outcome measures to demonstrate teamwork improves disaster response • ……………..
The Patient is complex organism Physical Psyche Behavioural Environs
The Health Care Professional Physical Psyche Behavioural Environs
Reduction of Human errors Patient safety Medical Competence
Medical Simulation A tool, powerful teaching tool We should wield this tool and not the industry !