Simulation-based teaching and education in pediatrics: a paradigm shift

Abstract

Dear Editor,
David Gaba described, "Simulation is a technique, not a technology, for replacing or amplifying real experiences with guided experiences that evoke or replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully interactive manner¹".

Medical education has steadily progressed continually, particularly in high risk specialties such as anesthesia, obstetrics, pediatric emergency-intensive care and neonatal-perinatal medicine. Advances have increased with the implementation of simulation-based training. Clinical simulation changes the traditional view of teaching, which focused on the weaknesses or deficiencies of professionals of health at the time of direct patient care. Based on that experience, they learned how to avoid harm to the next patient²