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  1. Healthcare simulation scenario design remains a resource-intensive process, demanding significant time and expertise from educators. This article presents an innovative AI-driven agentic workflow for healthcar...

    Authors: Federico Lorenzo Barra, Giovanna Rodella, Alessandro Costa, Antonio Scalogna, Luca Carenzo, Alice Monzani and Francesco Della Corte
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:29
    Content type: Innovation Published on:

  2. Nursing trained faculty often work as embedded simulated participants (ESPs) in interprofessional simulations. Blending and switching their professional identities as educators, nurses, and role players in ESP...

    Authors: Shelley Walker, Eve Purdy, Helen Houghton, William Dace and Victoria Brazil
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:28
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. In light of growing environmental concerns, this article examines the often-overlooked environmental impact of simulation-based education (SBE) within healthcare. We position simulation professionals as agents...

    Authors: Katherine Mitchell, Robyn Canham, Katie Hughes and Victoria Ruth Tallentire
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:27
    Content type: Advancing Simulation Practice Published on:

  4. Simulation-based medical education (SBME) is a critical training tool in healthcare, shaping learners’ skills, professional identities, and inclusivity. Leadership demographics in SBME, including age, gender, ...

    Authors: Joana Berger-Estilita, Mia Gisselbaek, Arnout Devos, Albert Chan, Pier Luigi Ingrassia, Basak Ceyda Meco, Odmara L. Barreto Chang, Georges L. Savoldelli, Francisco Maio Matos, Peter Dieckmann, Doris Østergaard and Sarah Saxena
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. 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 unex...

    Authors: Torben Nordahl Amorøe, Hans Rystedt, Lena Oxelmark, Peter Dieckmann and Paulin Andréll
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:25
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  6. Given the increasing complexity of contemporary clinical practice, there has never been a more important time to provide interprofessional educational (IPE) activities across the learning continuum to develop ...

    Authors: Brona Joyce, Davina Carr, Alison Smart, Dakota Armour and Gerard J. Gormley
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:24
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  7. The increase in adoption of Electronic Health records (EHR) in healthcare can be overwhelming to users and pose hidden safety threats and inefficiencies if the system is not well aligned with workflows. This q...

    Authors: Mirette Dubé, Jonathan D. Hron, Susan Biesbroek, Myrna Chan-MacRae, AEliot Shearer, Rocco Landi, Melanie Swenson, Daniel J. Kats, Doreen White, Reilly Birmingham, Lauren Coogle and Jennifer Arnold
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. Creating Brave Spaces (CBS) workshops are designed by an interprofessional team of health professions educators to empower faculty members to disrupt microaggressions in the clinical teaching environment using...

    Authors: X. Catherine Tong, Sonaina Chopra, Hannah Jordan, Matthew Sibbald, Aaron Geekie-Sousa and Sandra Monteiro
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. Training in invasive procedures like pericardiocentesis is a critical component of medical education but poses significant challenges due to its complexity and infrequent clinical application. Pericardiocentes...

    Authors: Alberto Rubio-López, Rodrigo García-Carmona, Laura Zarandieta-Román, Alejandro Rubio-Navas, Ángel González-Pinto and Pablo Cardinal-Fernández
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:19
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  12. With the rapid evolution of healthcare environments, effective and accessible experiential learning has become an integral part of health education. Virtual reality (VR) poses the advantage of providing users ...

    Authors: Mehak Chandanani, Anita Laidlaw and Craig Brown
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:18
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  13. Effective information sharing is crucial for emergency care teams to maintain an accurate shared mental model. This study describes the design, simulation-based testing and implementation of a team reflexivity...

    Authors: Lars Mommers, Dennie Wulterkens, Steven Winkel, Bas van den Bogaard, Walter J. Eppich and Walther N. K. A. van Mook
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:17
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  14. We designed, developed, and constructed a reusable, durable, low-cost resuscitative hysterotomy (RH) task trainer with functional and structural fidelity for repetitive practice and education for emergency med...

    Authors: Christiana Agbonghae, Chelsea Rushnell, Brian Lorenzo, John D. Ehlers III, Chad Scarboro, Lia Cruz, Sean Fox, Catherine Wares, Christyn Magill and Mark J. Bullard
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:16
    Content type: Advancing Simulation Practice Published on:

  15. 360° video and virtual reality (VR) simulation may offer innovative opportunities as portable simulation-based technologies to enhance Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) training, updates, and refreshers. Th...

    Authors: Mustafa Yalin Aydin, Vernon Curran, Susan White, Lourdes Peña-Castillo and Oscar Meruvia-Pastor
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:15
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  16. Simulated patients, participants and persons (SPs) are valued members of simulation teams. For people new to working as SPs, there are unique orientation requirements. This project sought to co-produce a resou...

    Authors: Ellen Davies, Lotte Crawford, Terence Crawford, Renato Musolino, Russell Hutchinson, Lemuel Pelentsov, Michael Gilmour and Adam Montagu
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:14
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  17. When medical students enter their first psychiatry rotation, they often feel under-prepared for the complex milieu of psychopathology, emotional distress, and complex psychosocial issues. Simulation is valued ...

    Authors: Ellen Davies, Natalie Mills, Adam Montagu, Anna Chur-Hansen and Scott Clark
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:13
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  21. The notion that debriefing quality is highly reliant on the skills and expertise of the facilitator is being increasingly challenged. There is therefore emerging interest in self-led debriefings (SLDs), whereb...

    Authors: Prashant Kumar, Neil Malcolm Harrison, Katy McAleer, Ibraaheem Khan and Susan Geraldine Somerville
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:9
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  22. While many nursing programs in developed countries have implemented simulation-based education as a pedagogic method of teaching, implementation of simulation in developing countries like Tanzania is rare. Tra...

    Authors: Rosemary M. Malya, Michael J. Mahande, Kristin H. Urstad, Jane J. Rogathi and Bodil Bø
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. This study aims to explore the perceptions of nursing students on virtual reality (VR) technology, focusing on its utility, relevance, user-friendliness, and potential for broader integration into nursing educ...

    Authors: Frode Johansen, Helge Toft, Odd Rune Stalheim and Maria Løvsletten
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:7
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  24. Neonatal mortality is high in middle- and low-income countries, including Tanzania. Most of these deaths are preventable and linked to suboptimal quality of care. In this study, we assessed neonatal resuscitat...

    Authors: Florence Salvatory Kalabamu, Vickfarajaeli Daudi, Robert Moshiro, Benjamin Kamala, Paschal Mdoe, Dunstan Bishanga, Hege Ersdal and Rose Mpembeni
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:6
    Content type: Comment Published on:

  25. For researchers and medical simulation trainers, measuring team dynamics is vital for providing targeted feedback that can lead to improved patient outcomes. It is also valuable for research, such as investiga...

    Authors: Rafael Wespi, Andrea N. Neher, Tanja Birrenbach, Stefan K. Schauber, Marie Ottilie Frenkel, Helmut Schrom-Feiertag, Thomas C. Sauter and Juliane E. Kämmer
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:5
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  26. Simulation educators are typically passionate advocates for simulation as a training modality; however, we frequently encounter participants who do not share our enthusiasm. The voice of the highly engaged par...

    Authors: Laura Newhouse and Ngaire Polwart
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. We aimed to measure the effect of a 2-day structured paediatric simulation-based training (SBT) on basic and advanced airway management during simulated paediatric resuscitations.

    Authors: C. Donath, A. Leonhardt, T. Stibane, S. Weber and N. Mand
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2025 10:1
    Content type: Research Published on:

  30. Behavioural marker systems are used across several healthcare disciplines to assess behavioural (non-technical) skills, but rater training is variable, and inter-rater reliability is generally poor. Inter-rate...

    Authors: Samantha Eve Smith, Scott McColgan-Smith, Fiona Stewart, Julie Mardon and Victoria Ruth Tallentire
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:55
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. Increasingly, virtual simulations are being integrated into higher education. A successful experience goes far beyond simply offering learners access to a virtual simulation; it requires a facilitator who unde...

    Authors: Margaret Verkuyl, Efrem Violato, Theresa Southam, Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay, Sandra Goldsworthy, Diane MacEachern and Lynda Atack
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:54
    Content type: Research Published on:

  32. Simulation-based education often involves learners or teams attempting to manage situations at the limits of their abilities. As a result, it can elicit emotional reactions in participants. These emotions are ...

    Authors: Vicki R. LeBlanc, Victoria Brazil and Glenn D. Posner
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:53
    Content type: Advancing simulation practice Published on:

  33. Impactful learning through simulation-based education involves effective planning and design. This can be a complex process requiring educators to master a varied toolkit of analysis tools, learning methodolog...

    Authors: Nathan Oliver, Simon Edgar, Edward Mellanby and Alistair May
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:52
    Content type: Innovation Published on:

  35. Simulation program staff and leadership often struggle to partner with front-line healthcare workers, their managers, and health system leaders. Simulation-based learning programs are too often seen as burdens...

    Authors: Christopher J. Roussin, Grace Ng, Mary K. Fey, James A. Lipshaw, Henrique P. Arantes and Jenny W. Rudolph
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:50
    Content type: Advancing simulation practice Published on:

  36. There is growing recognition that preparing health professionals to work with complex social issues in the delivery of healthcare requires distinct theoretical and pedagogical approaches. Recent literature hig...

    Authors: Niki Soilis, Farhan Bhanji and Elizabeth Anne Kinsella
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:49
    Content type: Debate article Published on:

  37. Healthcare debriefing is a cognitively demanding conversation after a simulation or clinical experience that promotes reflection, underpinned by psychological safety and attention to learner needs. The process...

    Authors: Michael J. Meguerdichian, Dana George Trottier, Kimberly Campbell-Taylor, Suzanne Bentley, Kellie Bryant, Michaela Kolbe, Vincent Grant and Adam Cheng
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:48
    Content type: Advancing Simulation Practice Published on:

  38. Addressing health inequities in health professions education is essential for preparing healthcare workers to meet the demands of diverse communities. While simulation has become a widely recognized and effect...

    Authors: Niki Soilis, Elizabeth Anne Kinsella, Walter Eppich, Adam Cheng, Lindsay Beavers and Farhan Bhanji
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:47
    Content type: Innovation Published on:

  39. Racism continues to plague Western societies’ institutions, including the healthcare system. Despite the evidence of racism’s negative impacts on healthcare providers, administrators, patients, and families, h...

    Authors: Lindsay Beavers, Tin Vo, Julia Lee, Thanya Duvage, Hollie Mullins, Aradhana Tewari, Allison Needham and Ryan Brydges
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:46
    Content type: Innovation Published on:

  40. Positive outcomes of simulation programmes to prepare students for placement are widely noted. However, few studies adequately describe considerations for designing allied health placement simulations. There e...

    Authors: Jennie Brentnall, Laura Rossiter, Belinda Judd, Emma Cowley, Keith McCormick, Ruth Turk and Debbie Thackray
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:45
    Content type: Innovation Published on:

  41. Faculty development in medical simulation is a growing need, given the increased use of simulation-based learning in healthcare. Training of trainers is demanding and resource-consuming; therefore, there is a ...

    Authors: Nadège Dubois, Céline Tonus, Sophie Klenkenberg, Anne-Françoise Donneau, Clément Buléon and Alexandre Ghuysen
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:44
    Content type: Advancing simulation practice Published on:

  42. Interprofessional simulation-based team training (ISBTT) is commonly used to optimize interprofessional teamwork in healthcare. The literature documents the benefits of ISBTT, yet effective interprofessional c...

    Authors: Mindy Ju, Naike Bochatay, Alexander Werne, Jenna Essakow, Lisa Tsang, Mary Nottingham, Deborah Franzon, Audrey Lyndon and Sandrijn van Schaik
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:43
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. Debriefings are central to effective learning in simulation-based medical education. However, educators often face challenges when conducting debriefings, which are further compounded by the lack of empiricall...

    Authors: Robin Brutschi, Rui Wang, Michaela Kolbe, Kerrin Weiss, Quentin Lohmeyer and Mirko Meboldt
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:42
    Content type: Methodological intersections Published on:

  45. Assessment of comprehensive consultations in medicine, i.e. a complete history, physical examination, and differential diagnosis, is regarded as authentic tests of clinical competence; however, they have been ...

    Authors: Michael Daly, Claire Mulhall, James O’Neill, Walter Eppich, Jonathan Shpigelman, Caitriona Cahir, Daniel Fraughen, Enda McElduff, Catherine Uhomoibhi and Claire Condron
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:40
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Team reflexivity and peer feedback in daily clinical work can improve patient safety. However, teams do not always engage in reflection after patient care. A reason could be that team members may lack skills i...

    Authors: Bodil Thorsager Svendsen, Lene Funck Petersen, Anders Skjelsager, Anne Lippert and Doris Østergaard
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:39
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Inadequate collaboration in healthcare can lead to medical errors, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary teamwork training. Virtual reality (VR) simulation-based training presents a promising, cost-...

    Authors: Rafael Wespi, Lukas Schwendimann, Andrea Neher, Tanja Birrenbach, Stefan K. Schauber, Tanja Manser, Thomas C. Sauter and Juliane E. Kämmer
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:38
    Content type: Methodological intersections Published on:

  48. Healthcare professionals are a precious resource, however, if they fail to integrate into the workforce, they are likely to relocate. Refugee doctors face workforce integration challenges including differences...

    Authors: Samantha Eve Smith, Victoria Ruth Tallentire, Julie Doverty, Mohamed Elaibaid, Julie Mardon and Patricia Livingston
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:37
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) are emerging technologies that can create immersive learning environments for health professions education. However, there is a lack of syste...

    Authors: Maryam Asoodar, Fatemeh Janesarvatan, Hao Yu and Nynke de Jong
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:36
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. Limited research has been conducted on how healthcare simulation can mitigate clinician stress. Stress exposure training (SET) has been shown to decrease stress’s impact on performance. Combining SET with virt...

    Authors: Erin E Blanchard, Zina Trost, Michelle R Brown, Corey Shum and Merrick Meese
    Citation: Advances in Simulation 2024 9:35
    Content type: Research Published on:

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