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A Scoping Literature Review of Simulation Training Program Curriculum Standards
Jenny O'Rourke1, Michelle Brown, Mary Ellen Elias
1From the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (J.O.), Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL; University of Alabama at Birmingham (M.B.), Birmingham, AL; VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (M.E.E.), Pittsburgh, PA; University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (G.S.P.), Peoria, IL; Maimonides Medical Center (A.C.), Brooklyn, NY; FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (A.G.), Miami, FL; Emergency Department (R.G.-G.), Soroka University Medical Centre, Beersheva, Israel; Department of Emergency Medicine (K.N.R.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Providence VA Medical Center (B.T.), Providence, RI; Anesthesiology and Critical Care Department (B.T.), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Stanford University (N.W.), Stanford, CA; and Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Simulation Learning, Education and Research Network (SimLEARN) (N.W.), Washington, DC.
Summary Statement:
Simulation educator training is well supported in the literature and endorsed by the Society of Simulation in Healthcare as well as the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Despite growth of domestic and international training programs, there is a lack of consensus regarding curriculum standards. Our aim was to identify core curricular components of comprehensive simulation training programs. A scoping literature review of all relevant publications from 2000 to 2020 was conducted using a 6-step design. A team of 10 multidisciplinary, international simulation educators independently reviewed all citations with discrepancies resolved by third-person review. Of the initial 320 identified unique publications, a total of 15 articles were included, all published within the last 6 years. Four themes were identified: domains (n = 6), competencies (n = 3), objectives (n = 8), and other characteristics (n = 3). The findings support a greater understanding of the core curricular content across simulation training programs to support standardization.
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