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What is a simulated placement?
What is a simulated placement?
The Simulated placement involves simulated environments, human patient simulation and role play, enabling multiple learning objectives to be taught in a realistic clinical environment. It allows students to learn various skills and knowledge in different mock scenarios without intimidating students and being harmful to patients.
Simulation is a promising method for improving clinician performance, enhancing team training, increasing patient safety, and preventing errors. Training scenarios to enrich medical student and resident education, and apply toward competency assessment, recertification, and credentialing are important applications of simulation in radiology.
(Chetlen Alison L.et al, 2015) - Conventional Medical Education and the History of Simulation in Radiology
What makes up a Radiotherapy & Oncology Simulated Placement?
What makes up a Radiotherapy & Oncology Simulated Placement?
Throughout your training there are three opportunities for simulated placement within your academic timetable.
Year 1: All year 1 students will be involved in a 2 week simulated placement to prepare you for clinical placement.
Year 2: The focus of the simulated placement will be radiotherapy planning
Year 3: In year 3 you will focus on clinical care skills, you will be guided by clinical staff and academics to attain skills around caring for patients in different situations
When you are on your clinical placement the staff there may also provide simulated learning away from patients. For example they may ask you to undertake a first day chat or set up a member of staff for "treatment". All of these experiences help to build your skills ready for practice.
Chloe - Simulation expereince .mp4Hear from Chloe (Year 3 Radiotherapy & Oncology student) about her experience of simulated placement
Hear from Chloe (Year 3 Radiotherapy & Oncology student) about her experience of simulated placement
Want to know more about Chloe's experience of simulation?
Read her blog post, click on the right hand corner to open in a new window
Simulation Blog complete.pdf
Expectations
Expectations
Treat the simulation as a real life scenario
Stay in the zone & stay focused!
Adhere to the appropriate uniform policy
Maintain the utmost dignity & professionalism at all times
Familiarise yourselves with the simulation's intended objectives
Skills you will learn
Skills you will learn
Clinical reasoning skills
Assessment skills
Decision-making skills
Patient approaching skills
Communication skills
Problem-solving skills
Confident improvements
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