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Training in brain injury rehabilitation
Brian Pentland1, Lynne Hutton, Ailsa Macmillan
1Rehabilitation Medicine Directorate, Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh, EH9 2HL, UK.
Purpose:
To evaluate our current training programme for professionals involved in brain injury rehabilitation, which involves disability simulation, and to consider the ethics and consequences of such programmes.
Method:
Seventy-two professionals took part in a brain injury disability simulation exercise and completed questionnaires pre and post the workshop.
Results:
Results suggest that participants have increased insight into the challenges faced by people with brain injuries.
Conclusions:
We believe that brain injury simulation exercises help professionals increase their understanding of the impairments and disabilities that may follow brain injury and can therefore form an important part of a training programme for rehabilitation staff.