Impact of simulation on medical education

Abstract

Medical education increasingly pays attention to a curriculum based on the cognitive, psychomotor, and emotional areas of student learning. All over the world, there is a shift in the methods of medical education towards experimental (“practical”) medical training – simulation; however, applying this concept to real patients is less socially acceptable and subject to legal and ethical issues. A simulation is an artificial representation of a complex real-world process with suffi cient accuracy to facilitate learning through immersion, refl ection, feedback, and practice minus the risks inherent in a similar real-life experience. Medical simulation offers numerous potential strategies for comprehensive and hands-on learning and safer patient care.