title: Use of simulation-based education: a national survey of pediatric clerkship directors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To document the prevalence of simulation-based education (SBE) for third- and fourth-year medical students; to determine the perceived importance of SBE; to characterize the barriers associated with establishing SBE.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 27-item survey regarding simulation was distributed to members of the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) as part of a larger survey in 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventy-one (48%) of 147 clerkship directors (CD) at COMSEP institutions responded to the survey questions regarding the use of SBE. Eighty-nine percent (63 of 71) of CDs reported use of SBE in some form: 27% of those programs (17 of 63) reported only the use of the online-based Computer-Assisted Learning in Pediatrics Program, and 73% (46 of 63) reported usage of other SBE modalities. Fifty-four percent of CDs (38 of 71) agreed that SBE is necessary to meet the requirements of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). Multiple barriers were reported in initiating and implementing an SBE program.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  SBE is commonly used for instruction during pediatric undergraduate medical education in North American medical schools. Barriers to the use of SBE remain despite the perception that it is needed to meet requirements of the LCME.
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Inpatient Medicine, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Electronic address: Beth.Vukin@hsc.utah.edu.
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Vukin
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill; Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Greenberg
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
authors: Marc
authors: M
authors: Auerbach
authors: Department of Pediatrics, NYU School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY.
authors: Lucy
authors: L
authors: Chang
authors: Department of Pediatrics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
authors: Mitzi
authors: M
authors: Scotten
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
authors: Rebecca
authors: R
authors: Tenney-Soeiro
authors: Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill; Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
authors: Jennifer
authors: J
authors: Trainor
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Dudas
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D002982:Clinical Clerkship / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education*; D012577:Schools, Medical; D000066908:Simulation Training / Q000379:methods*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States
keywords: clerkship; education; pediatrics; simulation; simulation-based medical education