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Education: Simulation

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Education: Simulation and Bioethics provides an overview of simulation – an active, experiential teaching-learning method that has been effectively employed in the bioethics education of healthcare students and professionals. Bioethics simulation is a technique used to imitate or represent essential individuals, relationships, conditions, and clinical elements of an ethical issue to evoke a genuine experience for teaching, assessment, or evaluation. The entry reviews the value and effectiveness of simulation in meeting the goals of bioethics education. It summarizes the characteristics and structure of simulation, various forms of simulations, benefits of ethics simulation, and ethical reasons for its incorporation in bioethics education.

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  1. Consultant in Healthcare Ethics, Education and Simulation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Kathryn E. Wilt PhD, RN

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  1. Duquesne University Center for Healthcare Ethics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Henk ten Have

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Wilt, K.E. (2014). Education: Simulation. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_164-1

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