Comparison of the observer role vs. active participant role in interprofessional simulation-based education for affective skills: a randomized-controlled trial
Maha Inam, Umar Tariq, Rafia Durrani, Masood Muhammad Karim, Zainish Surani, Faisal W Ismail · 2025
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Description
Maha Inam and co-authors report a 2025 trial on learning by watching in simulation-based training. The training here teaches health workers how to counsel patients on bowel preparation before a colonoscopy. Custom has favored one-to-one hands-on practice over watching peers perform.
Learners were assigned by chance to watch a simulation or to practice the skill directly. Both groups got the same standard teaching on bowel preparation. Confidence scores were collected before and after on a five-point scale. Both groups improved a lot, with the observer group gaining slightly more on the median score. The study joins a wider debate on the value of the observer role in health training. Its setting, though, is the single task of bowel preparation counseling.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maha Inam, Umar Tariq, Rafia Durrani, Masood Muhammad Karim, Zainish Surani, Faisal W Ismail |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |