CLINICAL SIMULATION

Clinical Simulation

ABSTRACT

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Clinical Simulation” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Clinical Simulation” and its relation with “Enhancing Learning”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Clinical Simulation” and tries to gauge its effect on “Enhancing Learning”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “Clinical Simulation” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Clinical Simulation” on “Enhancing Learning”.

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Enhancing Learning1

Advantages of Clinical Simulation4

Conclusion5

Clinical Simulation



Introduction

Traditionally the training of students and health professionals has focused on the acquisition of knowledge and technical skills, but for optimum results and safe in the care of patients requires other skills, called "non-technical", based in teamwork, communication, prioritization of tasks, coordination and resource utilization. The use of patient simulator scale (SER) and innovation in the training area can lead to a quantum leap as it allows participants to reflect and learn from their own experience, providing a new method of learning and training in which intertwine knowledge, skills and human factors. This teaching methodology improves the decision making process, communication between the equipment, optimization of resources and possible error, which in real cases would have serious consequences. The course is eminently practical, the students participate in the development of clinical cases with BE and then analyze and discuss the practical cases encountered. The course is aimed at students and professionals in nursing and medicine (Jaganathan & Kincaid, 2002).

Enhancing Learning

Clinical simulation provides a new method of learning and training which intertwine knowledge, skills and factors humans. The simulation, as defined by the Center for Medical Simulation (Cambridge, Mass.), is a situation or a scenario created to allow people experience the representation of a real event with the order to practice, learn, evaluate, test or acquire knowledge of systems or human performance. The simulation is meant as a technique, not a technology, may be worn properly, without exaggerating the reality but at the same time without minimizes or ridicule both the inactive element (virtual model) as the element active (student teacher). This technique aims to extend, replace the experience real, targeted experiences to reproduce material respects, important and transcendent of a real situation that can be daily or, Otherwise, exotic and rare but not that unrealistic. In the area of simulation with dummies, there are many studies that demonstrate the interest, high realistically achieved in the design of the different scenarios and future possibilities in this field.

Medical students increasingly like the teachers accept the simulation as an excellent tool for education, for many reasons, which is supported by several studies, such as the University of Toronto, where 143 students of 18 medical programs participated in a study Anesthesia Simulator, describing the usefulness of the simulator 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest mark of acceptance as a good tool for learning and skill acquisition. Defined this simulator as a great way to know and measure their knowledge and avoid mistakes in the management of patients ...