Cost, Value, and the Sustainability of Our Choices Concerning Simulation

Stephen Maloney1, Jonathan Foo, David Cook

  • 1Associate professor and director of education, School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Dr. Maloney is also chair, Society for Cost and Value in Health Professions Education; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2612-5162; e-mail: stephen.maloney@monash.edu. PhD scholar, School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4533-8307. Professor of medicine and medical education, director, Education Science, Office of Applied Scholarship and Education Science, chair, Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center Research Committee, consultant, Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota, and member, Executive Committee for the Society for Cost and Value in Health Professions Education; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2383-4633. Clinical director of clinical improvement, British Medical Journal, United Kingdom, fellow of the Higher Education Academy, fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Ireland, and member, Executive Committee for the Society for Cost and Value in Health Professions Education; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1268-4676.

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