Practicum Script
Practicum Script: Clinical Reasoning Simulator
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Practicum Script is the first simulator in the world based on principles of neuroscience and cognitive psychology applied to the training of clinical reasoning. It is not focused on teaching, but on the reflective learning of the participants and is intended for medical students and medical specialists or in the final stage of residency.
It is based on a game of clinical challenges built from the stories of real patients, in which you will confront your decisions with the responses of dozens of international experts and the best available scientific evidence in the face of complex and controversial dilemmas of daily practice.
- Totally online. Access when and how you want, from the Internet.
- What is known is not evaluated, but rather how it is applied for decision-making in contexts of uncertainty.
- Unites clinical experience with the best external evidence.
- Clinical debate forum.
- Reflective portfolio.
- Permanent methodological tutoring.
- Evolutionary performance indicators.
WHAT BENEFITS DOES PRACTICUM SCRIPT PRODUCE?
- Increases thinking skills and medical criteria for managing uncertainty.
- Accelerate critical judgment.
- Trains the conscious and unconscious processes of clinical decision making.
- It encourages reflection by comparing its decisions with those of an international committee of experts.
- Offers greater confidence and security in decision-making in front of the patient.
- Reduces confusion before prescribing studies or treatments that may be unnecessary or risky.
- Reduces cognitive failures, linked to clinical reasoning, which can lead to medical errors.
- It integrates you into an international learning community in constant expansion.
Practicum Script is a development of the Practicum Institute for Research Applied to Education in Health Sciences, in Spain, with the collaboration of renowned specialists in medical education from Canada, Europe and the US. It has the endorsement of the European Board of Medical Assessors (EBMA) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO-WHO).