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University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham, UK. …

Background Simulation-based learning (SBL) has been increasingly used in both
undergraduate and postgraduate medical training curricula. The aim of Simulation via Instant …

Background Simulation via Instant Messaging - Birmingham Advance (SIMBA) aimed to
improve clinicians’ confidence in managing various clinical scenarios during the COVID-19 …

Simulation-based learning (SBL) is well-established in medical education and has gained
popularity, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic when in-person teaching is infeasible. …

Background Simulation via Instant Messaging—Birmingham Advance (SIMBA) delivers
simulation-based learning through WhatsApp and Zoom, helping to sustain continuing medical …

Work experience is considered as a vital part of an application to medical school and other
healthcare-related educational programmes. Gaining clinical work experience via various …

Materials and methods All specialist registrars who attended the July and October 2019
endocrinology and diabetes training days, organised by Health Education West Midlands, …

Simulation-based learning is a useful teaching modality to develop clinicians' knowledge and
skills, while protecting patients from harm. 1 While simulation has traditionally occurred via …

Simulation is defined as a process that substitutes or amplifies real patient encounters with
artificial models, live actors, or virtual reality patients. 1 The goal of simulation is to replicate …

Methods Six SIMBA sessions were conducted between July 2019 and October 2020, focussing
on different topics in the field of endocrinology (namely adrenal, pituitary (n= 2), thyroid …