title: Patients with chronic conditions: simulate to educate?
abstract: Simulation in healthcare in an way to train professionals but it is not yet use commonly to train patient or their caregivers. Recently, it has been suggested to extend simulations to patients with chronic conditions. Simulations could help patients and caregivers to acquire psychosocial and self-management skills. This approach proved to be effective for the training of healthcare professionals, but its transferability to patients needs to be evaluated. Already, several questions arise. However, by considering simulations as pretexts for debriefing, they enable patients and professionals to assess a concrete situation, implying voluntary and reflexive learning processes. Thus, video recording should be assessed for its role in patient metacognition, defined as knowing about knowing. A taxonomy for simulations dedicated to patients, like that already developed for healthcare professionals, should be considered. Although practical constraints must be identified and addressed, they should not be the primary issue guiding research. The transferability of simulation as an educational technique from professionals to patients and caregivers should be investigated essentially in order to provide a significant benefit to patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, Hôpital Jean-Verdier (AP-HP), 93140, Bondy, France.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lefèvre
authors.affiliation: Health Education and Practices Laboratory-LEPS (EA 3412), Université Paris13-Sorbonne Paris Cité, 74, rue Marcel Cachin, 93017, Bobigny, France.
authors.forename: Rémi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gagnayre
authors.affiliation: Health Simulation Center SimUSanté®, Amiens University Hospital, Amiens, France. gignon.maxime@chu-amiens.fr.
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6517-6707
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gignon
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D000067489:Metacognition; D016544:Patient Simulation; D014741:Video Recording
keywords: Chronic disease; Patient education; Patient involvement; Simulation