Abstract
The recorded history of simulation in health professional education stretches over 1500 years and around the world and in that time simulators and the professionals who used them have had many names. For most of this time medicine was at best ineffective, surgery was turned to as a last resort and there was little use of simulation. The Enlightenment that started in France in the middle of the seventeenth century and spread widely over the next hundred and fifty years challenged established doctrines, including the prevailing system of medicine. Using careful observation and experiment physicians and surgeons began to develop effective therapeutic measures from interventions during labor that could save the life of the fetus and the mother and vaccination could prevent smallpox.
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Owen, H. (2016). Introduction. In: Simulation in Healthcare Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26577-3_1
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