For many of us, the best way to learn is to have a go: to take as many turns as we need to get it right. Practice makes perfect. But what if having a go has consequences? What if getting it wrong has higher stakes that can’t be resolved by simply pressing the restart button?
– By Angelique Praat –
We wouldn’t be overstating the case to say that Shelly Zimbelman was initially skeptical about teaching the clinical skills of her profession using computer-based simulations. Her first reaction was unequivocal: “There is no way you can simulate an ultrasound scan of a patient by using just a computer and a mouse!”
By Angelique Praat
In any teaching environment, students come with a range of talents and challenges, and different learning velocities. Imagine if you could give every student a head start before they reached the classroom. This is the essence of the flipped classroom or blended learning model for healthcare professionals.
Web-based skills learning system, SIMTICS, offers medical and allied health instructors greater scope to prepare their students for the reality of the clinical setting than simply asking them to read their textbooks and watch a video, and hoping they will comply. Through an integrated system of multimodal learning support, students can try procedures via online simulations before they come to class.
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