Debra F Nestel

..Innovations in simulation-based education offer exciting new opportunities for formative and summative assessment. We outline limitations of the essay and finally propose the content of a surgical oncology communication program...

..Anecdotal evidence suggests that SP roles are usually created by health care professionals and teachers. Although this approach has advantages it places the role at risk of omitting or misrepresenting real patients' experiences...

..Actors as a simulated team are expensive. We hypothesised that medical students and trainees in a vascular unit could authentically portray members of the endovascular suite for carotid stenting...

..Today, doctors spend a significant part of their work time completing paper work. Although the importance of accurate written communications is acknowledged, medical curricula rarely include focused teaching on this topic...

..Training in communication is often focused on interactions with patients. Equally important is supporting clinicians to communicate with each other. The authors devised a CP for perioperative specialist and surgical care practitioners...

..The essay concludes with speculation on the value of a "complementarity" model that acknowledges the authentic and equal perspectives of patients, students, clinicians, and teachers...

..First-year students were receptive and willing to learn from their senior colleagues...

..For SPs to work effectively, we believed it was important to clearly articulate their responsibilities, and that this would be best achieved by consultation with all stakeholders-SPs, students, tutors, and administrators...

..Such teams place heavy demands on clinical service. Research and training programmes in our surgical department were often compromised by the late cancellation of anaesthetists...

..Careful consideration needs to be given to ways in which student tutors are supported before, during and after the project...

..Their enhanced role provides students with an opportunity to identify with and reflect on the expertise of a lay teacher and to consider extending their definition of a learning opportunity to more informal encounters...

..To develop a valid, reliable and feasible teamwork assessment measure for emergency resuscitation team performance...

..Performing a clinical procedure requires the integration of technical clinical skills with effective communication skills. However, these skills are often taught separately...

..This paper explores students' experiences with the aim of producing guidelines for maximising the benefits of role-play within this learning context...

..Limitations of the study centre on the small numbers of participants and the novelty of the course. Repeating the evaluations on a subsequent course will provide insight into the ways in which nurses acquire and integrate new skills...

..We explored the perceived need for structured stress training and propose an intervention design that may be acceptable and appropriate...

..At Gippsland Medical School (GMS), students are given a laptop at the commencement of their four-year degree. We evaluated the educational impact of the ML program from students' perspectives...

..This paper explores the role of simulation in providing a realistic, safe environment for participants with different levels of experience to manage evolving crises in the context of their work environment...

..This prospective, cross-sectional study describes the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the Imperial Stress Assessment Tool (ISAT) as an approach to measuring stress during surgery...

..2 to 11.4 (maximum possible score = 15). Although we do not yet know enough about communicating with real patients using mobile robotic units, the communication guide appeared to be useful in our simulated interactions...

..We recorded the incidence of these events in the OR, assessed the levels of stress that they caused, and investigated their detectability...

..This qualitative study explored key surgical stressors, their impact on performance, and coping strategies used by surgeons...

..Both sets of skills can be impaired by intra-operative stress, compromising performance and patient safety. This systematic review aims to assess the effects of intra-operative stress on surgical performance...

..Approaches to assessment, implementation, and evaluation of PPD curricula are also discussed. Two case studies are presented. The article concludes with suggestions for curriculum development...