Medical Economics May 30, 2024
Kelly Villella-Canton

Equipped with realistic patient scenarios and rapid, analytics-based insights, new high-tech tools are proving effective for scaling and modernizing health care education, especially where resources might otherwise be limited.

From defense to aviation to health care, simulation-based learning plays an important role across high-risk industries to safely train future professionals. In health care, simulation-based learning mimics real-world practice, allowing students to learn from mistakes in a setting resembling their future work environment, complete with virtual patients. No patients are harmed, no cadavers are needed and students are more likely to retain what they have learned from firsthand experience than they would learn from a textbook.

Across medical and health care education, simulation has traditionally taken the form of manikins or...

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