Combining simulation and cinemeducation to teach patient safety: A pilot study

ABSTRACT

Cinemeducation has been used for diverse teaching objectives in medical education. To our knowledge, there are no published accounts of using cinemeducation in combination with simulation. We designed a pedagogical activity combining cinemeducation and simulation in a programme to teach patient safety. This paper aims to describe the design and implementation of the activity, analyse its feasibility, and assess students’ opinions of its usefulness. A total of 70 second-year Spanish medical students participated; 31 (44.3%) completed a survey assessing the activity. Most expressed total or partial agreement with statements indicating activity was useful. The combined activity facilitates the reflective process by applying the emic/etic perspective. While simulations and cinemeducation share experiential learning techniques, adding cinemeducation helps overcome some of simulation’s limitations in reproducing complex professional scenarios. This combined approach is feasible and well accepted. Combining these two approaches promises to be useful in other disciplines.

KEYWORDS:

• Patient safety
• medical teaching
• cinemeducation
• simulation
• higher education
• innovation

Acknowledgments

We thank University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia for making this research possible. We thank all the students who participated.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Notes on contributors

Griselda Gonzalez-Caminal

Griselda Gonzalez-Caminal. Physiotherapist and PhD in Education. Professor of physiotherapy at the faculty of Health Sciences of Universitat de Vic Universitat Central de Catalunya and coordinator of the simulation programme in medicine studies. Member of the Interinstitutional Research Group on Educational Innovation, Simulation and Patient Safety (GRInDoSSeP). Her main research interest is innovation in education.

Carmen Gomar-Sancho

Carmen Gomar-Sancho. Anesthesiologist and PhD in Medicine. Chairperson of the Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Department (1997-2017) and Director of Residents Program and CMD (1998-2003) both at Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. IP of Education Innovation Group (GINDO UB/159) of University of Barcelona. At present Director of Clinical Simulation and patients Safety Chair in the Universitat de Vic – Central de Catalunya. Her main research field is innovation in education.

Paula Belén Mastandrea

Paula Belén Mastandrea. Psychologist and Master of Educational Psychology degree in progress (University of Buenos Aires). Professor at the Faculty of Psychology (2016-currently) both at the University of Buenos Aires. Main research field: educational psychology and methodological models for the use of cinema and series in education.

Xavier Arrebola-Trias

Xavier Arrebola-Trias. He is a nurse and Master in Patient Safety and healthcare quality and Master in Simulation. Patient safety referent person (2009-currently), Deputy Nurse for Management Healthcare services (2005-currently) both at the Baix Empordà Integrated Health Services. He is a clinician.

Josep-Eladi Baños

Josep-Eladi Baños. Medical doctor and PhD in Medicine. Vice-Rector of Teaching and Academic Planning at the same University (2005-2013) and has directed the Research Group of Education in Health Sciences (GRECS) (2016-2019). Since 2019 he is the Rector of the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya.

Irene Cambra-Badii

Irene Cambra-Badii Psychologist and PhD in Psychology. Researcher at the Chair of Bioethics of Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya. Her main research interests are now cinema studies, TV series, as well as their use as a teaching aid in educational innovation