title: Discrete event simulation in the health policy and management program.
abstract: Students in Health Policy and Management at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Maastricht University must learn to analyze and design workflow processes in health care. To attain this, a discrete event simulation training, using MedModel is used. This paper describes the training in two consecutive years. In both years the training was evaluated systematically. The evaluation results demonstrate that the simulation training increased the students' knowledge about analyzing and designing workflow processes in healthcare. Students considered the training as a very important part of their program.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. siebren.groothuis@mi.unimaas.nl
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Groothuis
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: van Merode
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D009426:Netherlands; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis