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Simulation Curriculum Development, Competency-Based Education, and Continuing Professional Development

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Simulation-based education offers the potential to support healthcare providers to develop and maintain the essential competencies relevant to clinical practice—in a manner that can help them improve patient care and outcomes. Competency frameworks and models for competency-based education may help support this transformational change in education and assessment. Simulation should be appropriately coupled with other instructional methods to deliver the appropriate curricula for learners. The analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation (ADDIE) model offers a process to develop, implement, and evaluate curricular development. Each of the key phases will be described and the key considerations of each phase will be discussed. Future directions including high-stakes examinations and the development of standardized national curricula are also discussed.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Jonathan Pirie MD, MEd

  2. SYN:APSE Center for Learning, Transformation and Innovation, Yale New Haven Health System, New Haven, CT, USA

    Liana Kappus MEd & Stephanie N. Sudikoff MD

  3. Pediatric Critical Care, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Stephanie N. Sudikoff MD

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Centre for Medical Education, McGill University, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Farhan Bhanji MD, MSc, (Ed), FRCPC, FAHA

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Pirie, J., Kappus, L., Sudikoff, S., Bhanji, F. (2016). Simulation Curriculum Development, Competency-Based Education, and Continuing Professional Development. In: Grant, V., Cheng, A. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Pediatrics. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24187-6_14

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