For many years, educators have endeavoured to create engaging and safe learning spaces in which learners can participate in recreations of clinical scenarios without putting patients at risk. High-fidelity simulation encapsulates the pressures of dealing with a patient in need, and the challenges of collaboration and decision making under stressful conditions. Greater curricular emphasis on patient safety and communication, and the increasingly limited opportunities for supervised practice have each contributed to the rapid expansion of simulation in medical education.
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