Maloney Stephen, Haines Terry
1Department of Physiotherapy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
2Medical Education Research and Quality (MERQ) Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Adv Simul (Lond). 2016 May 17;1:13. doi: 10.1186/s41077-016-0020-3. eCollection 2016.
Simulation education can be costly-however, costs need to be considered against what you get in return to determine whether these costs are justified. Unfortunately in simulation education, evaluations that yield information about the return on investment are scarce. An economic evaluation provides a comparison of value. In short-what is it that is being obtained, what do you need to give up to get it, and how does that compare to what you get with the next best alternative? When educators are equipped with this knowledge, they will be better informed to know the place that simulation-based learning approaches should take in optimal course structures.
This article provides an overview of the costs and consequences associated with simulation in healthcare education. It provides an outline of the benefits of using economic evaluations to inform decision-making by educators and clinicians concerning the most appropriate educational approaches. It also provides guidance for educational researchers interested in investigating the cost and value of their innovations.
Measures of cost and value in simulation are required to provide information about the viability and sustainability of simulation education, enabling simulation education in health care to demonstrate its worth.
模拟教育成本可能很高——然而，需要将成本与所获得的回报进行权衡，以确定这些成本是否合理。不幸的是，在模拟教育中，能产生有关投资回报率信息的评估很少。经济评估提供了一种价值比较。简而言之，所获得的是什么，为了得到它需要放弃什么，以及与次优替代方案相比如何？当教育工作者具备这些知识时，他们就能更好地了解基于模拟的学习方法在优化课程结构中应占据的位置。
本文概述了医疗保健教育中与模拟相关的成本和结果。它概述了利用经济评估为教育工作者和临床医生在选择最合适的教育方法时提供决策依据的好处。它还为有兴趣研究其创新成本和价值的教育研究人员提供指导。
需要衡量模拟中的成本和价值，以提供有关模拟教育可行性和可持续性的信息，使医疗保健中的模拟教育能够证明其价值。
