Simulation serves as both a teaching modality and an assessment strategy, enabling students to develop and demonstrate competencies. By observing student performance in simulated scenarios, educators can accurately identify strengths and areas for improvement.
Solutions may fit multiple use models or scenarios. Consider your unique needs when exploring.
Demonstrates foundational task knowledge and performance hands-on
Healthcare requires a unique combination of complex critical thinking with hands-on manual work. Building vital psychomotor skills early in a learner’s progression towards competency allows learners to later focus on applying those skills effortlessly and without distraction in more challenging situations. Assessing them early using efficient and sometimes automatic means ensures their success.
Demonstrates introductory decision-making skills within situational competencies
At this stage, learners begin to understand the basics of decision models and care pathways. They begin to perform critical thinking and understand that success and failure are both possibilities. Learners who have had difficulty in summative exams often have not experienced formative or course assessments. Choose a simulation solution that will allow you to assess what is appropriate for your learners to succeed at the next stage in their competency progression.
Demonstrates advanced decision-making along with team-based competencies
Learners experiencing the benefits of assessments at this level should already be used to formative assessments and to the process of coaching and guided self-reflection. What you need to assess in this area is what you will need to train to. You may be performing summative assessments like Observed Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs) or you may still be performing formative assessments. In either case, Laerdal offers simulators and digital solutions that can test advanced level decision making in teams during acute emergent situations.
Demonstrates competencies during real clinical practice
There comes a point in a learner's progression where you will want to introduce your learners to a situationally realistic environment—an environment that challenges and develops their abilities to perform in authentic circumstances. Assessments at this level deserve to be captured and tracked digitally for consistency, efficiency, and transparency. Where simulators are used, we recommend the highest fidelity possible.
You can track competencies during every simulation activity. By combining data from course outcomes, objectives, and both formative and summative assessments, you can effectively measure and evaluate overall competency.
SimCapture is a platform that allows you to capture, measure and assess competencies. It enables students to demonstrate clinical judgment and competencies, instantly uploading performance data for evaluation against defined standards. SimCapture tracks learners' progress at both individual and cohort levels, helping faculty identify those needing remediation and monitor improvement over time.
Standardize assessment
Centralize data
Track performance of individual learners and cohorts
Assess, evaluate, and track performance over time
Assessment Management
Assessment data is collected and stored in one location for simple access and management
Standardized and Objective Assessment
Assess learners efficiently and consistently against defined rubrics and competencies
Analyzing and Presenting Data
Dashboards on individual or cohort level for better evaluation and presentation of outcomes
A collection of resources to help you implement competency-based education.
