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Program Evaluation

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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Mobile Medical Simulation

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Healthcare simulation is a dynamic industry. The best simulation programs are routinely evaluated and modified to ensure high-quality simulation activities. This holds true whether the focus of the program is education, assessment, research, or a combination.

In this chapter, a program evaluation model for simulation programs is explored. The importance of context, stakeholders, goals, and objectives is established in a framework for ongoing evaluation. Concrete, real-world examples are used to demonstrate data gathering techniques. Suggested strategies for analysis and program revision are also reviewed. Potential pitfalls and keys to success for program evaluation are presented using this framework.

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  1. Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Providence, RI, USA

    Andrew Musits

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  1. CHSE, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Department of Education, Omaha, NE, USA

    Patricia K. Carstens

  2. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaga, NE, USA

    Paul Paulman

  3. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaga, NE, USA

    Audrey Paulman

  4. School of Biological Sciences - University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

    Marissa J. Stanton

  5. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Brian M. Monaghan

  6. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Douglas Dekker

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Musits, A. (2020). Program Evaluation. In: Carstens, P., Paulman, P., Paulman, A., Stanton, M., Monaghan, B., Dekker, D. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Mobile Medical Simulation. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33660-8_5

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