Emil Petrusa

TL;DR: While research in this field needs improvement in terms of rigor and quality, high-fidelity medical simulations are educationally effective and simulation-based education complements medical education in patient care settings.

TL;DR: This article reviews and critically evaluates historical and contemporary research on simulation‐based medical education (SBME) and presents and discusses 12 features and best practices that teachers should know in order to use medical simulation technology to maximum educational benefit.

TL;DR: Some benefits of simulation technology include improvements in certain surgical technical skills, in cardiovascular examination skills, and in acquisition and retention of knowledge compared with traditional lectures.

TL;DR: This report synthesises a subset of 31 journal articles on high‐fidelity simulation‐based medical education containing 32 research studies drawn from a larger qualitative review published previously to hypothesise an association between hours of practice in simulation‐ based medical education and standardised learning outcomes measured as weighted effect sizes.

TL;DR: Deployed on an automated smartphone-based system, the Zwisch scale can be used to make reliable and valid measurements of faculty guidance and resident autonomy and is suggested to infer resident operative performance.