Simulation is a method or technique that is employed to produce an experience without going through the real event. Simulation opens up opportunities that are not available in real event learning, such as apprenticeships, and at the same time provides a multifaceted safety container for learning. Safety containers are an important consideration for learners, especially in professional training. Simulation-Based Learning can provide a safe environment to reflect on and learn from mistakes without threat to professional identity. Clinical mentors and students in all the health professions are working within the most troublesome of circumstances in the hospital-based educational settings. Medical educationists ought to concentrate on the health and the safety of the students and communities. The safety issues have prompted the Ministry of Health to suggest that schools develop action plans for the adoption of available technologies to keep medical education moving forward with high quality, active, and interactive learning for more demanding tomorrow. A key challenge for medical educators is to simulate the clinical encounters at this unprecedented time, and this emphasizes the necessity of applying virtual simulation-based educational tools in clinical education.
The traditional approach of medical education is to continually reduce healthcare tasks to simpler or smaller components, such as facts and simple skills, for the purpose of teaching. However, healthcare tasks frequently vary with the need to adapt to particular situations and learners taught in this manner may not be able to grasp the dynamics of variation and adaptation to integrate or link the various components in a way that is clinically meaningful and relevant.8 To overcome problems of compartmentalization and fragmentation, modern educators adopt a holistic approach and make use of authentic tasks to promote integrated learning
The simulation-based tools for healthcare training would be desperately required by health and medical education programs to support continual clinical education and assessment.
Computerized simulation education products and virtual simulation-Based Learning provide the necessary tools to provide benchmarking and best practice insights to medical sciences students, better preparing them for real-world medical practice. Some medical simulation products are also available and ready for immediate deployment on the medical education LMS and cloud-based platform.
Moreover, in recent years, medical schools are using virtual patient simulations in the education of health care professionals. England’s health education systems and Oxford University Hospitals are using virtual simulation-based tools in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education