title: Enacting simulation: A sociomaterial perspective on students' interprofessional collaboration.
abstract: Full-scale simulation exercises are becoming more common as an educational feature of the undergraduate training of health professionals. This study explores how interprofessional collaboration is enacted by the participating students. Practice theory is used as the theoretical framework for a field study of two naturalistic educational settings, when medical and nursing students come together to practice in a simulated emergency situation, where a manikin is replacing the patient. Eighteen sessions of simulations were observed, and data were collected through standardised video recordings that were analysed collaboratively. To ensure transparency and scientific rigour, a stepwise constant comparative analysis was conducted, in which individual observations within and across single video recordings were compared, negotiated and eventually merged. The findings show that the student teams relate to the manikin as a technical, medical, and human body, and that interprofessional knowings and enactments emerge as a fluid movement between bodily positioning in synchrony and bodily positioning out of synchrony in relation to the sociomaterial arrangements. The findings are related to contemporary theorisations of practice comprising an integrated view of body and mind, and it is discussed how the findings can be used in simulation exercises to support participants' learning in new ways.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Behaviour Sciences and Learning , Linköping University , Linköping , Sweden.
authors.forename: Sofia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nyström
authors.affiliation: b Department of Medicine and Health , Linköping University , Linköping , Sweden.
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dahlberg
authors.affiliation: b Department of Medicine and Health , Linköping University , Linköping , Sweden.
authors.forename: Håkan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hult
authors.affiliation: b Department of Medicine and Health , Linköping University , Linköping , Sweden.
authors.forename: Madeleine Abrandt
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Dahlgren
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D036262:Empirical Research; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008348:Manikins; D013337:Students, Medical; D013338:Students, Nursing; D014741:Video Recording
keywords: Healthcare; interprofessional collaboration; learning; practice theory; qualitative video analysis; simulation education