Clinical Simulation Center

Clinical Simulation Center

Resources

The body of academic literature on medical simulation is extensive. The following list includes several seminal and ground-breaking resources. It can be searched with your browser’s search function.

  1. Berwick DM, Leape LL: Reducing errors in medicine. Bmj 1999; 319: 136-7
  2. Blum R, Raemer D, Carroll J, Dufresne R, Cooper J: A Method for Measuring the Effectiveness of Team Based Training for Improving Communication Skills. Anesth Analg 2005
  3. Boulet JR, Ben-David MF, Ziv A, Burdick WP, Curtis M, Peitzman S, Gary NE: Using standardized patients to assess the interpersonal skills of physicians. Acad Med 1998; 73: S94-6
  4. Boulet JR, Murray D, Kras J, Woodhouse J, McAllister J, Ziv A: Reliability and validity of a simulation-based acute care skills assessment for medical students and residents. Anesthesiology 2003; 99: 1270-80
  5. Brennan TA: The Institute of Medicine report on medical errors--could it do harm? N Engl J Med 2000; 342: 1123-5
  6. Colliver JA, Swartz MH: Assessing clinical performance with standardized patients. Jama 1997; 278: 790-1
  7. DeVita MA, Schaefer J, Lutz J, Dongilli T, Wang H: Improving medical crisis team performance. Crit Care Med 2004; 32: S61-5
  8. Devitt JH, Kurrek MM, Cohen MM, Fish K, Fish P, Noel AG, Szalai JP: Testing internal consistency and construct validity during evaluation of performance in a patient simulator. Anesth Analg 1998; 86: 1160-4
  9. Drews F, Syroid N, Agutter J, Snell D, Balikrishnan S, Lingutla S, Westenskow D, Strayer D: Validation of a just in time training using a high fidelity simulator, International Meeting on Medical Simulation. San Diego, CA, 2003
  10. Forrest F, Mather S, Tooley M: The expanding role of simulators in risk management. Br J Anaesth 1998; 80: 128
  11. Gordon J, Armstrong E: Effects of a single exposure to high-fidelity patient simulation in the preclinical curriculum: a pilot study (Abstract A17). Anesth Analg 2002; 95: S119
  12. Gordon JA: A simulator-based medical education service. Acad Emerg Med 2002; 9: 865
  13. Maran NJ, Glavin RJ: Low- to high-fidelity simulation - a continuum of medical education? Med Educ 2003; 37 Suppl 1: 22-8
  14. Patow CA : Improving patient safety through simulation technology. AHIP Cover 2004; 45: 74-7
  15. Pawlowski J, Graydon-Baker E, Gallagher M, Cahalane M, Raemer D: Can progress notes and bedside presentations be used to evaluate medical student understanding in patient simulator based programs? 2001 International Meeting on Medical Simulation. Scottsdale, Az, 2001
  16. Raemer D, Sunder N, Gardner R, Walzer T, Cooper JB: Using simulation to practice debriefing medical error. Anesth Analg 2003; 97: S16
  17. Rogers PL : Simulation in medical students' critical thinking. Crit Care Med 2004; 32: S70-1
  18. Rosenbaum ME, Ferguson KJ, Lobas JG: Teaching medical students and residents skills for delivering bad news: a review of strategies. Acad Med 2004; 79: 107-17
  19. Shapiro MJ, Morey JC, Small SD, Langford V, Kaylor CJ, Jagminas L, Suner S, Salisbury ML, Simon R, Jay GD: Simulation based teamwork training for emergency department staff: does it improve clinical team performance when added to an existing didactic teamwork curriculum? Qual Saf Health Care 2004; 13: 417-21
  20. Shojania KG, Wald H, Gross R: Understanding medical error and improving patient safety in the inpatient setting. Med Clin North Am 2002; 86: 847-67
  21. Solares G, Gonzalez AM, Escalante C, Delgado T: Simulators in medicine teaching. Novelty or necessity? Med Clin (Barc) 2004; 122: 798-9
  22. Tan GM, Ti LK, Suresh S, Ho BS, Lee TL: Teaching first-year medical students physiology: does the human patient simulator allow for more effective teaching? Singapore Med J 2002; 43: 238-42
  23. Wagner PJ, Lentz L, Heslop SD: Teaching communication skills: a skills-based approach. Acad Med 2002; 77: 1164
  24. Weller J, Robinson B, Larsen P, Caldwell C: Simulation-based training to improve acute care skills in medical undergraduates. N Z Med J 2004; 117: U1119
  25. Ziv A, Wolpe PR, Small SD, Glick S: Simulation-based medical education: an ethical imperative. Acad Med 2003; 78: 783-8
  26. Issenberg S, McGaghie W, Petrusa E, Lee Gordon D, Scalese R. Features and uses of high-fidelity medical simulations that lead to effective learning: a BEME systematic review. Medical Teacher, Vol 27, No 1, 2005, p 10-28. Downloaded by: (CDL Journals Account) At:05:31 April 2007
  27.  Ruiz J, Mintzer M, Leipzig R. The impact of E-Learning in medical education. Academic Medicine, Vol 81, No. 3/ March 2006
  28. Effective use of educational technology in medical education. Colloquium on Educational technology: recommendations and guidelines for medical educators. AAMC Institute for improving medical education. March 2007. To request additional copies of this publication, contact: Chris Candler, MD Director of Educational Technology, Medical Education, AAMC. 2450 N Street, NW, Washington, DC. 20037. ccandler@aamc.org
  29. Stevens S, Goldsmith T, Summers K, Sherstyuk A, et al Virtual reality training improves student’s knowledge structures of medical concepts.
  30. Helitzer D, Heath D, Maltrud K, Sullivan E, Alverson D. Assessing or predicting adoption of telehealth using the diffusion of innovations theory: a practical example from a rural program in New Mexico. Telemedicine Journal and e-health. Volume 9, Number 2, 2003  p 179-187