High-fidelity simulation and legal/ethical concepts: a transformational learning experience.
Students in an undergraduate legal and ethical issues course continually told the authors that they did not have time to study for the course because they were busy studying for their clinical courses. Faculty became concerned that students were failing to realize the value of legal and ethical concepts as applicable to clinical practice. This led the authors to implement a transformational learning experience in which students applied legal and ethical course content in a high-fidelity human simulation (HFHS) scenario. A preliminary evaluation compared the new HFHS experience with in-person and online student groups using the same case. Based on both student and faculty perceptions, the HFHS was identified as the best of the three approaches for providing a transformational learning experience regarding legal and ethical content.
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA. smithkv@umkc.edu
Katharine V
KV
Smith
Jacki
J
Witt
Joann
J
Klaassen
Christine
C
Zimmerman
An-Lin
AL
Cheng
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