Simulation, in simple terms, involves artificially recreating real events and processes in controlled conditions. It has opened a new avenue of teaching critical medical practices while giving the space to students to safely make mistakes.
Simulation recreates a real-time experience to attain educational objectives through experiential hands-on learning. This is helping in reducing the dependence on traditional bedside learning from patients.
Concerns of patient safety, growing patient awareness and litigation, busier hospitals, shortage of resources, bigger training groups, and lack of hands-on learning opportunities have all been compelling reasons to look for better alternatives to bedside learning. The pandemic has also forced us to reduce dependence on real patients to pick up skills.
