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Fantasies of medical reality: an observational study of simulation-based medical education

Pelletier, C; Kneebone, R; (2015) Fantasies of medical reality: an observational study of simulation-based medical education. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society pp. 1-20. 10.1057/pcs.2015.50. Green open access

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Abstract

Medicine is increasingly taught in immersive simulated environments, to supplement the apprenticeship model of work-based learning. Clinical research on this educational practice focuses on its realism, defined as a property of simulation technology. We treat realism as a function of subjective but collectively organised perception and imbued with fantasy, which we define by drawing on Lacanian studies of virtual reality and workplace organisation. Data from an observational study of four simulation centres in London teaching hospitals is drawn on to present an account of what was taught and learned about medicine, including medical failure, when medical practice was simulated.

Type: Article
Title: Fantasies of medical reality: an observational study of simulation-based medical education
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1057/pcs.2015.50
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2015.50
Language: English
Additional information: This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Pelletier, C; Kneebone, R; (2015) Fantasies of medical reality: an observational study of simulation-based medical education. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society pp. 1-20 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2015.50.
Keywords: Simulation, fantasy, technology, virtual reality, work, medical education
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1474778
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