Simulation is a promising method for improving clinician performance, enhancing team
training, increasing patient safety, and preventing errors. Training scenarios to
enrich medical student and resident education, and apply toward competency assessment,
recertification, and credentialing are important applications of simulation in radiology.
This review will describe simulation training for procedural skills, interpretive
and noninterpretive skills, team-based training and crisis management, professionalism
and communication skills, as well as hybrid and in situ applications of simulation
training. A brief overview of current simulation equipment and software and the barriers
and strategies for implementation are described. Finally, methods of measuring competency
and assessment are described, so that the interested reader can successfully implement
simulation training into their practice.
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: August 11, 2015
Accepted:
July 8,
2015
Received:
May 29,
2015
Footnotes
Conflicts of Interest: Alison L. Chetlen is a consultant for Siemens (participant in reader study November, December 2014) and Bradley B. Pua is a consultant for Halyard Health.
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