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GLOSSARY & ACRONYMS |
Simulation Terms:
- Avatar: the participant’s graphic representation in a simulation or game
- BabySim ®: METI infant manikin
- Briefing: introduction to the simulation experience
- Debriefing: review of performance and delivery of feedback
- Distributed Learning: synonym for laptop or web-based simulation
- Fidelity: realism of simulated environment
- Full Scale Simulation: high fidelity representation of the clinical care environment including team actors and manikins
- Haptics: conveying the sense of touch
- Hybrid: simulation that combines technical and communication skills but is short of full scale simulation
- Manikin (mannequin): full or half body representation of a patient for practice
- Microsimulation: synonym for laptop or web-based simulation
- Moulage: simulation of tissue pathology
- SimBaby ®: Laerdal infant manikin
- SimMan ®: Laerdal adult manikin
- Standard Man (Stan) ®: METI full scale advanced physiologic manikin
- Task Trainer: simulator designed for practice of specific clinical skills
- Virtual Patient: laptop or web-based simulated patient
Acronyms
- AIMS: Advanced Initiatives in Medical Simulation: meeting of healthcare, industry, and government
- ECS ®: Emergency Care Simulator: METI
- HPS ®: Human Patient Simulator: METI
- IMMS: International Meeting on Medical Simulation: old name for international academic meeting hosted by SSH
- IMSH: International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare: new name for international academic meeting hosted by SSH
- METI ®: Medical Education Technologies Inc: manikin manufacturer
- MMVR: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality: academic meeting
- MSR: Israeli National Center for Medical Simulation at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center
- MSSSC: Mt. Sinai Skills and Simulation Center at Case Western Reserve University
- NTS: non-technical skills
- SESAM: Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine
- SMS: Society for Medical Simulation: old name of SSH
- SP: standardized patient: a patient actor used in education and evaluation
- SPI: standardized patient interaction
- SSH: Society for Simulation in Healthcare
- VR: Virtual Reality
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