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Clinical simulation is shifting the paradigm for medical education.

Old paradigm:

Didatic Lectures

See one, do one

New paradigm:

Self-directed learning

Practice to pre-defined standards of competency

Team training

Practice of safe medicine

Types of Clinical Simulation

• Standardized Patients
• Partial task trainers
  • Simple level
  • Higher level
• Mannequins
  • Low-fidelity
  • High-fidelity
• Virtual patients
• Screen-based; computer-based
• Combinations
  • Augmented encounters with technology
  • Crisis management

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