Chapter 25 Simulation-based medical education D. Østergaard and P. Dieckmann Introduction Simulation-based medical education (SBME) in its widest sense should be defined as any educational activity that utilizes simulative tools…
Chapter 36 Standard setting J. Norcini and D.W. McKinley Introduction In medical education, it is common to need to identify knowledge or performance that is ‘just good enough’ for a…
Chapter 34 Patient safety I. Dror Introduction Patient safety is obviously not only paramount, but stands at the very crux of medical care. Why then, despite huge investments and efforts,…
Chapter 28 Mobile learning (m-learning) J.E. Sandars and G.S. Frith Introduction Over the last few years, an increasing range of devices with computing capability have become available for use whilst…
Chapter 32 Professionalism P.M. Gliatto and D.T. Stern Introduction Consider the following scenarios: • A professor strongly urges his preclinical students to attend a session on the doctor–patient relationship because one…
Chapter 15 Distance education J. Grant and A. Zachariah Before you begin … This chapter looks different from the other chapters in this book. It is presented as a distance…
Chapter 6 Preparing for general practice T. Gibbs Introduction It is Monday morning. You are getting towards the end of your morning surgery. So far today you have seen 12…
Chapter 41 Evaluating professionalism S. Ginsburg Evaluating professionalism in medical education has become much more explicit over the past decade. All important regulatory and accreditation bodies (such as the Royal…
Chapter 35 Concepts in assessment J. Norcini and M. Friedman Ben-David Even a cursory review of the assessment literature reveals a bewildering array of dichotomies and concepts. These are often…
Chapter 26 Simulated/standardized patients M. Cantrell and E.A. Gephardt Introduction Lay people who have been trained to portray patients have come under many names since the 1960s. Initially they were…
