Simulation-based learning: Tool for the development of clinical and surgical skills and abilities

Learning based on the clinical simulation methodology is an educational process that focuses on the creation of simulated clinical scenarios, for teaching and learning clinical-surgical skills and competencies. This pedagogical methodology has become an important tool in the training of health professionals, since it allows students to gain experience in real clinical situations in a safe and controlled manner.
Educational clinical simulation has a number of advantages over traditional health sciences teaching methods. It allows students to carry out their practices without putting patients at risk, in addition to providing students with the possibility of experiencing complex and challenging clinical situations, which do not occur in usual practices, while allowing feedback from the patients. instructors and peers to improve their performance.
As a training orientation, clinical simulation has the benefits of guaranteeing patient safety; the increase in clinical performance based on the development of students in skills and competencies that provide quality care in their performance; the development of effective communication skills essential for clinical practice and finally improving teamwork for problem solving.
In this sense, the objective of the research presented in this book is to propose learning strategies that contribute to the development of clinical-surgical abilities and skills, through medical simulation in the subject Surgical Technique – Surgical Pathology, of the degree in Medicine from the National University “Siglo XX” in Llallagua, Potosí, Bolivia.