The 2024 French guidelines for scenario design in simulation-based education: manikin-based immersive simulation, simulated participant-based immersive simulation and procedural simulation.
Der Sahakian, Guillaume; de Varenne, Maxime; BULEON, Clémentet al.
2024 • In Medical Education Online, 29 (1), p. 2363006
[en] [en] BACKGROUND: Simulation-based education in healthcare encompasses a wide array of modalities aimed at providing realistic clinical experiences supported by meticulously designed scenarios. The French-speaking Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SoFraSimS) has developed guidelines to assist educators in the design of scenarios for manikin- or simulated participant- based immersive simulation and procedural simulation, the three mainly used modalities.
METHODS: After establishing a French-speaking group of experts within the SoFraSimS network, we performed an extensive literature review with theory-informed practices and personal experiences. We used this approach identify the essential criteria for practice-based scenario design within the three simulation modalities.
RESULTS: We present three comprehensive templates for creating innovative scenarios and simulation sessions, each tailored to the specific characteristics of a simulation modality. The SoFraSimS templates include five sections distributed between the three modalities. The first section contextualizes the scenario by describing the practicalities of the setting, the instructors and learners, and its connection to the educational program. The second section outlines the learning objectives. The third lists all the elements necessary during the preparation phase, describing the educational method used for procedural simulation (such as demonstration, discovery, mastery learning, and deliberate practice). The fourth section addresses the simulation phase, detailing the behaviors the instructor aims to analyze, the embedded triggers, and the anticipated impact on simulation proceedings (natural feedback). This ensures maximum control over the learning experience. Finally, the fifth section compiles elements for post-simulation modifications to enhance future iterations.
CONCLUSION: We trust that these guidelines will prove valuable to educators seeking to implement simulation-based education and contribute to the standardization of scenarios for healthcare students and professionals. This standardization aims to facilitate communication, comparison of practices and collaboration across different learning and healthcare institutions. [en] ‘What this article adds’1. The SoFraSimS provides guidelines to facilitate the development of simulation-based activities.2. These guidelines are theory-informed as well as evidence and experience-based.3. A detailed approach to writing a complete activity or scenario for procedural and immersive simulation including manikins or simulated participants is provided (the ‘SoFraSimS templates’).4. This work aims at standardizing practices and exchanging scenarios between simulation centers.
Disciplines :
Human health sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Der Sahakian, Guillaume; Department of Emergency Medicine, Centre Hospitalier d'Orange, Orange, France
de Varenne, Maxime; Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
BULEON, Clément ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > > Service des urgences ; Center for Medical Simulation, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Caen Normandy University Hospital, Caen, France
Alinier, Guillaume; School of Health and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK ; Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK ; Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service, Doha, Qatar
Balmer, Christian; Paediatric Cardiology, Paediatric Heart Center, Department of Surgery, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Blanié, Antonia; Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Kremlin Bicêtre University Hospital, APHP, Paris, France
Bech, Bertrand; Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Kremlin Bicêtre University Hospital, APHP, Paris, France
Bellot, Anne; Centre de simulation NorSimS & Service de néonatalogie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen Normandie & Université de Caen-Normandie, Caen, France
Boubaker, Hamdi; Emergency Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital & Research Laboratory, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
Dubois, Nadège ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la santé publique
Guevara, Francisco; Chargé de projets en simulation continue et initiale, Cadre de santé formateur en simulation en santé, IFSI Croix Saint Simon, Montreuil, France
Guillouet, Erwan; Center for Medical Simulation, Liège University Hospital, Liège Belgium ; Center for Medical Simulation, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Caen Normandy University Hospital, Caen, France
Granry, Jean-Claude; AllSims Center for Simulation in Healthcare, University Hospital of Angers, Angers, France
Jaffrelot, Morgan; Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada ; Independent Consultant in Simulation, Brest, France
Lecomte, François; Department of Emergency Medicine, Cochin University Hospital, APHP, Paris, France
Lois, Fernande ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > > Service d'anesthésie - réanimation
Mouhaoui, Mohammed; Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco
Ortolé, Ollivier; Department of Emergency Medicine & CESU Martinique, University Hospital Center of Martinique, Fort-de-France, France
Paquay, Méryl ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la santé publique
Piazza, Justine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Santé publique : de la Biostatistique à la Promotion de la Santé
Pittaco, Marie; Department of Emergency Medicine, Centre Hospitalier d'Orange, Orange, France
Plaisance, Patrick; Department of Emergency Medicine, Lariboisière University Hospital, APHP, Université de Paris & ILumens Platform of Medical Simulation Paris University, Paris, France
Benhamou, Dan; Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Kremlin Bicêtre University Hospital, APHP, Paris, France
Chiniara, Gilles; Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
Rivière, Etienne ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Cochin University Hospital, APHP, Paris, France ; Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases unit, Haut-Leveque Hospital, University Hospital Centre of Bordeaux, Pessac Cedex, France ; Faculty of Medicine, Bordeaux University, Bordeaux, France
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