Medical simulation: an essential tool for training, diagnosis, and treatment in the 21st century.

Journal: BMC medical education
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Medical simulation is a global trend that improves disease interpretation, diagnostic skills, and clinical abilities, transforming them into skills for the practitioner. Simulator classes should be part of continuing medical education, generating advances that make it necessary for technical development and specialization in complex, complicated, or difficult-to-reproduce scenarios that students may face, based on clinical problems with negative feedback, allowing for learning from mistakes. The objective of the review is to identify the usefulness of simulation in teaching the new medicine.

Authors

  • Carlos Enrique Mawyin-Muñoz
    University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
  • Francisco Javier Salmerón-Escobar
    University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
  • Javier Aquiles Hidalgo-Acosta
    Espíritu Santo University UEES, Km. 2,5 León Febres Cordero Ribadeneyra Avenue, Samborondon, Ecuador. aquileschonero@hotmail.com.
  • Maria Fernanda Calderon-León
    Catholic University of Santiago of Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador.