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Simulation and training in anaesthesia



Liverpool, UK
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Editor—We enthusiastically read the editorial by Wheeler and colleagues1 and agree with their suggestion that anaesthesia has taken simulation further than any other speciality.
The Best Evidence Medical Education Collaboration (BEME) has reported that high-fidelity medical simulations are educationally effective and that they complement medical education in the patient care setting.2 The authors state that high-fidelity simulation currently has a narrow evidence base.1 However, this is changing. Our group has recently demonstrated that a single course based on generic Team Resource Management (TRM) principles is effective in not only changing the way junior trainees in
Cambridge, UK
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