Varsha Vyas1, Amit Nagpal2, Shirish Patil3, Surekha Patil4, Sanjay Oak5, S. N. Mohite6, Nitin Kumar Sharma7, Freston Marc Sirur8
With increasing concern about patient safety and focus on quality care delivery, there is a shift of teaching paradigm from bedside teaching to simulation based training. A number of research papers have shown simulation to be a valuable tool and it is emerging as an educational technique very rapidly. Simulation has increasingly become a part of mainstream postgraduate medical education in most of the western countries. Many centres in USA, UK and Canada have built curricula incorporating simulators in teaching programs. In India, around twelve to fifteen simulation centres are in existence and are developing new programs in different domains of medicine. Various Medical Councils, professional societies and industries could collaborate to advance medical education to the next level by developing curricula that employ the technology of simulation to improve clinical skills and assess performance and set a bench mark. For maximal effectiveness, Simulation based education needs to be integrated into the curriculum and not used as a stand-alone intervention.
