Simulation-based emergency medicine education in the era of physical distancing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic posed significant challenges to traditional simulation education. Because simulation is considered best practice for competency-based education, emergency medicine (EM) residencies adapted and innovated to accommodate to the new pandemic normal. Our objectives were to identify the impact of the pandemic on EM residency simulation training, to identify unique simulation adaptations and innovations implemented during the pandemic, and to analyze successes and failures through existing educational frameworks to offer guidance on the use of simulation in the COVID-19 era.

Methods

The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)'s Simulation Academy formed the SimCOVID task force to examine the impact of COVID-19 on simulation didactics. A mixed

SUBMITTER: Nadir NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7995220 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature