Is the medical simulation model helpful to teaching?

Many experts and scholars have some concerns about medical model education at first, after all, it is not a real medical environment. However, with the shortage of medical environment, seasonality of diseases, irreproducibility of critical state and non-existence of rare diseases, the emergence of medical model teaching has largely filled the shortcomings of traditional medical teaching.

In recent years, with the enhancement of patients' awareness of self-protection, the traditional medical teaching mode has been challenged. It has become a difficult problem for medical students to practice and the basic skills of new doctors are not solid enough. There are fewer and fewer opportunities to be with patients, and there are fewer and fewer opportunities for students to directly operate and train skills on patients as in the past. The medical industry itself is a high-risk industry, and the poor clinical practice skills of medical students undoubtedly increase the risks of the medical industry. A considerable number of doctors are unwilling to provide internship opportunities for students, so as not to add pain to patients, cause disputes and complaints, and bring trouble. Therefore, medical model simulation teaching was born, and students were taught and trained through medical model simulation and medical operation of patients. The teaching of medical simulation model has certain authenticity, cases can appear randomly, the operation is safe, and the error correction is strong, which is beneficial to students' practice and assessment. After strict simulation training, students reduce the teaching risk. Using medical model technology can create all kinds of real and even dangerous cases for practical skills training, thus reducing medical errors and medical accidents.