In Duke-NUS Medical School, Simulation is an educational tool used in both teaching and assessments.

Simulation in the Formative Setting
Duke-NUS Medical School Curriculum incorporates simulation as one of it’s teaching techniques to ensure that the students have a good grasp of their medical knowledge, clinical skills and communication skills that are essential in patient-centred care.

Immersive Simulation using case scenarios that are tagged to the curriculum are facilitated in a safe learning environment within the Clinical Performance Centre (CPC) using either full-bodied human simulators, simulated patients (SPs) or hybrid simulation with SPs combined with part task trainers to foster experiential learning.  Each simulation is facilitated hand-in-hand by clinical content experts and Duke-NUS Simulation-Based Educators wherein the students will have the opportunity to approach each case holistically using their acquired medical knowledge, clinical skills with history taking and physical examination, procedural skills and communication skills followed by the process of debriefing that encourages the students to practice reflective learning.


Simulation in the Assessment Setting
In Duke-NUS Medical School, students in phases 1, 2 and 4 undergo both formative and summative assessments with OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) stations.  Using SPs and hybrid simulation in stations to assess clinical skills, communication skills and procedural skills allows students to be examined in a standardised encounter which increases the validity of the assessment.