Title

Improving Quality In Systems Of Care: Solving Complicated Challenges With Simulation-Based Continuing Professional Development

Keywords

Collaborative practice; Continuing medical education; Continuing professional development; Curriculum planning; Human factors studies; Industrial and organizational psychology; Interprofessional care; Interprofessional education; Simulation-based education; Teams

Abstract

The delivery of quality health care depends on the successful interactions of practitioners, teams, and systems of care comprising culture. Designing educational programs to improve these interactions is a major goal of continuing professional development, and one approach for educational planners to effect desired changes is simulation-based education. Because simulation-based education affords an opportunity for educators to train health care professionals in environments that resemble clinical practice, this instructional method allows planners to integrate overarching priorities for improvement in health care practice with the training goals of individuals. Educational planners should consider how to structure scenarios to meet training objectives based on the complicated interactions within the health care system. To optimize the benefit of simulation-based experiences, evidence and insights from industrial and organizational psychology, as well as from human factors studies, provide guidance to the planning process, and interdisciplinary studies of complex health care systems can help produce educational programs that improve the quality of health care delivery. © 2012 The Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education, and the Council on CME, Association for Hospital Medical Education.

Publication Date

12-1-2012

Publication Title

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Volume

32

Issue

4

Number of Pages

230-235

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/chp.21150

Socpus ID

84871664432 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84871664432

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