Design of simulation-based medical education and advantages and disadvantages of in situ simulation versus off-site simulation

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-9

  Sørensen, Jette Led ^a   Østergaard, Doris ^a   LeBlanc, Vicki ^b,c   Ottesen, Bent ^a   Konge, Lars ^a   Dieckmann, Peter ^a   Van der Vleuten, Cees ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Context; Cross training; Curriculum; Fidelity; In situ simulation; Inter professional; Simulation based medical education

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS TRAINING; CURRICULUM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; TEACHING; WORKPLACE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; GROUP PROCESSES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SIMULATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 85010069186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-016-0838-3     Document Type: Article

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