Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare is a multidisciplinary publication encompassing all areas of applications and research in healthcare simulation technology.
Que ce soit via ses différents groupes de travail ou ses comités, la Société Francophone de Simulation en Santé s'attache à publier le plus régulièrement possible un large panel de recommandations, de bulletins pédagogiques, de revues de littérature et autres ressources qui se veulent utiles au plus grand nombre.
Dans le prolongement de l’actualisation du Guide de bonnes pratiques en simulation en santé (mars 2024), le cadre d’évaluation des infrastructures de simulation a été révisé et renforcé. Cette nouvelle version introduit une approche de cotation plus précise, prenant en compte, au-delà des ressources disponibles, le niveau de réalisation des axes évalués en fonction de leur taux de conformité.
Mazur L, Butler L, Mitchell C, Lashani S, Buchanan S, Fenison C, Adapa K, Tan X, An S, Ra J.
Approximately 4000 preventable surgical errors occur per year in the US operating rooms, many due to suboptimal teamwork and safety behaviors. Such errors can result in temporary or permanent harm to patients, including physical injury, emotional distress, or even death, and can also adversely affect care providers, often referred to as the "second victim."
Given the persistence of adverse events in the operating rooms, the objective of this study was to quantify the effect of an innovative and immersive virtual reality (VR)-based educational intervention on (1) safety behaviors of surgeons in the operating rooms and (2) sense-making regarding the overall training experience.
JMIR Med Educ. 2025 May 1;11:e66186. doi: 10.2196/66186. PMID: 40311122.
Amorøe TN, Rystedt H, Oxelmark L, Dieckmann P, Andréll P.
Healthcare students are taught teamwork and collaboration through interprofessional simulation-based education (IPSE). However, the complex nature of healthcare and the ability to react resiliently to the unexpected is usually not actively addressed. This study explores how complexity and resilience can be addressed in IPSE debriefing for pre-graduate healthcare students.
Adv Simul (Lond). 2025 Apr 29;10(1):25.
doi: 10.1186/s41077-025-00352-4. PMID: 40301884; PMCID: PMC12042428.
Soledad AR, Catalina ZS, Scarlett VC, Claudia BP, Cristhian PV.
Objective and Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a widely used evaluation method for health profession students. In Chile, physicians OSCEs have incorporated clinical reasoning and patient-centered communication assessment since 2015. The overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on undergraduate medical clinical practice remains unknown, in particular whether this context disproportionately affected lower-income regions, as was the case analysed in this study.
This research compares the OSCE patient-centered communication and clinical reasoning results among five cohorts of intermediate-level medical students with restricted clinical practice in Chile.
BMC Med Educ. 2025 Apr 25;25(1):608.
doi: 10.1186/s12909-025-07210-x. PMID: 40281520; PMCID: PMC12023525.
Power, D., Burke, C., Madden, M.G. et al.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve healthcare and patient safety and is currently being adopted across various fields of medicine and healthcare. AI and in particular computer vision (CV) are well suited to the analysis of minimally invasive surgical simulation videos for training and performance improvement. CV techniques have rapidly improved in recent years from accurately recognizing objects, instruments, and gestures to phases of surgery and more recently to remembering past surgical steps. Lack of labeled data is a particular problem in surgery considering its complexity, as human annotation and manual assessment are both expensive in time and cost, and in most cases rely on direct intervention of clinical expertise. In this study, we introduce a newly collected simulated Laparoscopic Surgical Performance Dataset (LSPD) specifically designed to address these challenges. Unlike existing datasets that focus on instrument tracking or anatomical structure recognition, the LSPD is tailored for evaluating simulated laparoscopic surgical skill performance at various expertise levels.
Sci Rep15, 13591 (2025).
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-96336-5
Eckerström Joachim , Mårtensson Sophie , Larsson Margaretha , Knez Rajna , Ljudvåg Madeleine , El Alaoui Samir , Dahlström Karin , Elvin Nowak Ylva , Stenfors Terese , Jayaram-Lindström Nitya , Kristiansson Marianne , Fors Uno , Sörman Karolina
Multiple studies have shown that healthcare professionals often feel uncertain about when to inquire about intimate partner violence (IPV), the appropriate methods for doing so, and how to respond to the answers. Virtual patient (VP) cases are an interactive educational tool that can be effective for learning and training clinical reasoning skills. However, there is a lack of research on the use of VP in psychiatry education. This study aimed to investigate nursing students' experiences of using a VP as part of an educational module, integrated into their foundational training on IPV during their nursing education.
Front. Digit. Health, 11 April 2025
Sec. Health Communications and Behavior Change
Volume 7 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1516379
Ring L M, DeBitetto J, Cheng J J, et al.
In acute care settings, pediatric congenital heart patients require comprehensive team-based care. Physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) co-manage these patients in the same manner. However, there may be few opportunities to train together. Virtual reality (VR) simulation in the pediatric cardiology setting offers a portable, immersive experience and can be a cost-saving alternative to traditional manikin-based simulation. We sought to study the effectiveness of VR as a tool for providing interprofessional education to physicians and APPs working with cardiology patients in both the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) and the emergency department (ED).
Cureus 17(3): e81181.
doi:10.7759/cureus.81181
Sparks, F., Gilbody, N. & Hilari, K.
Laryngectomy (removal of the larynx, usually due to cancer) results in significant anatomical changes requiring specific clinical skills to safely manage the airway and support altered communication. It is crucial that healthcare professionals understand how to support people with laryngectomy, particularly in emergency care when their usual healthcare teams will not be present. Provision of laryngectomy training is limited. Existing education approaches fail to fully meet the needs of healthcare professionals, which in turn impacts on the provision of intervention to people with laryngectomy. With increasing evidence for simulation in pedagogical literature, this study explores how this approach can be used to support clinical skill education and improve urgent laryngectomy care. The aim of this study was to establish if a simulation-based approach is a feasible method of enhancing healthcare professional knowledge and confidence to provide emergency care to people with laryngectomy.
BMC Med Educ25, 442 (2025).
doi.org/10.1186/s12909-025-06964-8
AUGRAS A, LONJOU L, RANVIAL E, PERROCHON A.
L'objectif de cette étude était de comparer la satisfaction des étudiants pour un débriefing sur ordinateur à celle d'un débriefing par un ensignant.
Dans cette étude expérimentale en cross-over, 42 étudiants en masso-kinésithérapie ont réalisé deux cas cliniques, chacun conçu avec un débriefing, que ce soit avec un ordinateur et par un enseignant. La Debriefing Experience Scale a été utilisée pour évaluer la satisfaction des étudiants envers les deux méthodes de débriefing.
RSE2R [Internet]. 2025 [cité 03 avril 2025];(3).
Zhao, L., Wu, C., Su, J. et al.
Sepsis is one of the most challenging and complex clinical states, with persistently high mortality rates. Guidelines recommend the early identification of sepsis patients and immediate initiation of the Hour-1 Bundle treatment to reduce mortality from sepsis. Emergency nurses play a vital role in the early screening of sepsis. Studies indicate that mind mapping and In-Situ Simulation (ISS) training not only aid healthcare professionals in reinforcing theoretical knowledge retention but also enhance skills in coordination, task management, and communication during simulation exercises. This, in turn, promotes the effective implementation of various treatments during resuscitation. The combination of theoretical and practical training methods is more effective than a single training approach. In June 2023, our hospital's emergency department conducted training for emergency nurses on sepsis mind mapping combined with ISS.
BMC Med Educ25, 331 (2025).
Rasesemola, R., Molabe, M.P.T
Nurses lack skills to analyse ethical problems, and some feel powerless and frustrated when encountering and having to deal with ethical dilemmas in clinical practice. The lack of ethical competence among nurses might somewhat be related to the neglect and side-lining of ethics in the education system. For those nurse educators who are facilitating ethics within their curriculum, their strategies and practices are inefficient due to lack of resources. Lack of efficient strategies to facilitate ethical competence create threats to ethical values in healthcare with a potential to jeopardise patients’ health outcomes.
BMC Nurs24, 147 (2025).
doi.org/10.1186/s12912-025-02742-5
Felicity Edwards, Tara McCurdie, Dougal Carlisle, George Pang, Fiona Coyer, Kevin B. Laupland
We have previously used three-dimensional printing to develop a novel manikin for simulation training of central venous catheter insertion in critical care. The objective of this study was to evaluate the fidelity of the model by testing with novice and experienced operators.
Australian Critical Care, Volume 38, Issue 3, 2025, 101197, ISSN 1036-7314
doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2025.101197.
Ebm C, Sarti R, Panico P, Pagliotta M, Vinci V, Oldani S
Compassionate behavior plays a crucial role in medicine by fostering patient-doctor relationships, enhancing adherence, and improving care quality. While partly innate, compassion can be significantly enhanced through structured educational interventions. Despite recent efforts to integrate compassion into medical curricula, methodological challenges persist, especially in understanding how different environments influence skill expression and development. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of traditional clinical clerkships versus simulation-based training in cultivating compassion skills among medical students.
BMC Med Educ. 2025 Feb 4;25(1):181.
doi: 10.1186/s12909-025-06687-w.
PMID: 39905468; PMCID: PMC11796239.
Inas D. Redjem, Arnaud Huaulmé, Pierre Jannin, Estelle Michinov
Crises in the operating room, often resulting from human factors, endangers patient safety. Simulation-based training to develop non-technical skills shows promise in managing these crises. This review examines the simulation techniques, targeted healthcare professionals, non-technical skills, crisis scenarios, and evaluation metrics used in operating room crisis management training.
Nurse Education Today, Volume 147, 2025, 106583, ISSN 0260-6917
doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2025.106583.
Hege Hovd Faye-Schjøll, Hege Vistven Stenseth, Maria H. Iversen, Camilla Olaussen
In considering the level of responsibility held by advanced practice nurses, ensuring patient safety must be a central component of advanced practice nursing education. Several healthcare education programmes have integrated Room of Horror simulations, which emphasise patient safety, as a learning activity. However, scant research has examined the effectiveness of Room of Horror as a method in advanced practice nursing education, especially studies that employ qualitative methodologies to explore student perspectives on this simulation.
The study aimed to explore the experiences of advanced practice nursing students using a Room of Horror simulation focused on promoting patient safety as an educational approach within their master's degree programme.
Nurse Education Today, Volume 147, 2025, 106604, ISSN 0260-6917
doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2025.106604
Alice Pavageau, Claire Marchand
Les professionnels de santé sont amenés à développer des compétences éducatives et préventives au service des prises en soins des patients. La formation infirmière prévoit une compétence spécifique que les étudiants abordent sur le plan théorique mais qu’ils ont peu l’occasion de mettre en pratique lors des stages. La simulation semble pouvoir pallier ce manque d’opportunités.
L’étude complémentaire à l’étude de 2021 vise à décrire plus précisément comment la simulation est utilisée dans les enseignements des éducations en santé en IFSI.
Educ Ther Patient/Ther Patient Educ 16 (2) 20203 (2024) DOI: 10.1051/tpe/2024022
Palmisano, F., Santuari, N., Moletta, C. et al.
The quality of Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillations (AED) treatment provided by individual practitioners is the most important factor in surviving an in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA); therefore, healthcare professionals (HCPs) require sufficient resuscitation competency. This study aimed to analyze the effects of a blended team-based CPR and AED simulation training (riAniMO program) on HCPs performance, satisfaction and perception on transferability, and costs.
BMC Med Educ24, 1524 (2024). doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-06543-3
Foucault-Fruchard, L., Michelet-Barbotin, V., Leichnam, A. et al.
Effective communication in healthcare, among professionals and between professionals and patients is crucial for delivering high-quality care. While simulation effectively translates technical skills to clinical practice, its impact on communication, particularly in pharmacies, is less well documented.
This systematic review examined the impact of simulation-based education on communication skills among pharmacy students and pharmacists. It aims to identify the types of simulations used, the outcomes obtained, and the effectiveness of these simulations in enhancing communication skills, perception and confidence.
BMC Med Educ24, 1435 (2024). doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-06338-6
Liselott Fornander, Maria Garrido Granhagen, Ida Molin, Kati Laukkanen, Karin Björnström Karlsson, Peter Berggren, Lena Nilsson
Trauma teams handle severely injured patients under high temporal demands and need to coordinate and achieve collaborative decision-making and task execution through communication. Specific coordination and communication behaviours are taught in simulation training to enhance team performance. An examination of the role and nature of communication could increase the understanding of educational possibilities and assess the validity of in situ simulation on behalf of communication.
Our study aim was to describe the relative use of communication within information and task management, the use of coordinating behaviours, and the use of talking to the room and closed-loop communication in in-real-life trauma assessment and in the simulated domain.
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2024 Dec 10;32(1):128. doi: 10.1186/s13049-024-01287-x.
Groupe francophone de traduction du Simulation Dictionary
Coordonné par Clément BULEON
Assurer une traduction la plus fidèle possible du concept du SSH Simulation Dictionary dans un français le plus intelligible possible. Ceci afin de donner accès à un public francophone à la compréhension des termes tels qu’ils peuvent être employés dans des publications, des communications ou des conférences en langue anglaise.
Eva FEIGERLOVÁ et Marc BRAUN
L’examen clinique objectif et structuré (ECOS) est un outil pédagogique utilisé à des fins de formation et d’évaluation des performances des étudiants dans un environnement simulé. Pour justifier son utilité et son efficacité, l’ECOS doit être régulièrement révisé. Les données psychométriques permettent de répondre aux questions d’évaluation de la qualité de l’ECOS. Dans l’éducation médicale une note de passage fixe de 50 % est traditionnellement utilisée. Cependant les stations au sein d’un circuit d’ECOS peuvent avoir des niveaux de difficulté variable. Le seuil de réussite est déterminé par le biais d’un ajustement statistique afin de refléter le niveau de difficulté de chacune des stations au sein du circuit.
Ce travail décrit une démarche de standardisation de l’épreuve sur un exemple concret selon les attendus d’apprentissage sur le modèle adopté en France.
Pédagogie Médicale (2024) DOI: 10.1051/pmed/2024017
Guillaume PHILIPPOT, Béatrice VERQUIN SAVARIEAU, Christophe DELIGNY
La simulation en plaçant les apprenants comme acteurs de leurs stratégies d’apprentissage, participe au changement de paradigme de la pédagogie universitaire en médecine. Avec la réflexivité au cœur des débriefings, cette méthode pédagogique contribue au développement professionnel des formateurs en simulation. Nous explorerons les concepts de réflexivité en formation, développement professionnel et mesure de la réflexivité puis tenterons d’identifier les critères de réflexivité des formateurs au fil de leur parcours d’apprentissage.
Mesurer le développement de la réflexivité des formateurs en simulation en santé au fil de leur parcours et tenter de valider une échelle d’autoévaluation de leur réflexivité.
Pédagogie Médicale (2024) DOI: 10.1051/pmed/2024021
Alexandra LAPIERRE, Caroline ARBOUR, Patrick LAVOIE
Il n’existe aucune grille d’observation pour documenter les habiletés individuelles de travail d’équipe qui sont mobilisées lors d’une réanimation traumatologique.
Présenter les premières étapes du développement de la Grille d’Observation des habiletés individuelles reliées au Travail d’équipe lors d’une RÉAnimation Traumatologique (GO-TREAT) en contexte de simulation clinique et proposer une version préliminaire.
Pédagogie Médicale (2024) DOI: 10.1051/pmed/2024019
F. Caron, F. Mathieu, M. Talleux, D. Basille, C. Rames
L’endoscopie bronchique est un acte invasif qui peut être difficilement toléré par les patients, d’autant plus si l’opérateur manque d’expérience. La simulation permet aux apprenants de perfectionner leurs compétences en s’inscrivant dans une démarche éthique : « jamais la première fois sur un patient ». L’objectif principal de notre étude était la mise en évidence des bénéfices de la simulation dans l’apprentissage de l’endoscopie bronchique, concernant la dextérité, la vitesse de réalisation, et la reconnaissance anatomique de l’opérateur.
Revue des Maladies Respiratoires, Volume 41, Issue 10, 2024, Pages 776-789, ISSN 0761-8425, doi.org/10.1016/j.rmr.2024.10.005.
Simulation plays a pivotal role in addressing universal healthcare challenges, reducing education inequities, and improving mortality, morbidity and patient experiences. It enhances healthcare processes and systems, contributing significantly to the development of a safety culture within organizations. It has proven to be cost-effective and successful in enhancing team performance, fostering workforce resilience and improving patient outcomes.
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Through an international collaborative effort, an iterative consultation process was conducted with 50 societies operating across 67 countries within six continents. This process revealed common healthcare challenges and simulation practices worldwide. The intended audience for this statement includes policymakers, healthcare organization leaders, health education institutions, and simulation practitioners. It aims to establish a consensus on the key priorities for the broad adoption of exemplary simulation practice that benefits patients and healthcare workforces globally.
Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare ():10.1097/SIH.0000000000000804
La Haute Autorité de santé (HAS) continue de promouvoir le développement de la simulation en santé et de permettre l’amélioration et la diversification de sa structuration, en proposant aux professionnels un guide de bonnes pratiques en matière de simulation en santé actualisé. Cette volonté s’inscrit dans le cœur de mission de la HAS : renforcer la qualité des soins, la sécurité du patient et la gestion des risques.
Simulation is being used for the training of healthcare workers in many settings and to address a variety of clinical issues. Available evidence suggests that performance improvements as a result of simulation training result in improvements in the clinical care of patients. However, current practices vary widely in simulation training, and there are no existing guidelines based on systematic synthesis of best available evidence to guide practices. In this manuscript, we present the first evidence-based guidelines relevant to simulation training that were developed using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology.
Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare 19(1S):p S4-S22, January 2024. | DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0000000000000776
