Simulation Training: Fundamentals and Applications: Improving Professional Practice Through Simulation Training

✍ Scribed by Philippe Fauquet-Alekhine, Nane Pehuet (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawing on decades of industrial experience, this insightful and practical guide uses case studies and an interdisciplinary perspective to explain the fundamentals of simulation training to improve performance of high-risk professional activities. It seeks to identify those conditions under which simulation training has been shown to improve professional practice while employing extensive real examples. Simulation Training: Fundamentals and Application helps readers to develop their own synthesis of the simulation learning method and to use such training to enhance their skills and performance. Case studies demonstrate five specific theatres of professional practice - the nuclear-power industry, aeronautics, surgery, anesthesia and metallurgy – and then detailed analysis highlights the common factors and key results. The author’s background as a Human Factors Consultant, Physicist and Physiologist has enriched studies of humans in work situations, work organization and management and he has also been involved in pedagogical conception of experimental training on simulators based on his experience as a safety expert on nuclear power plant. The book is useful to practitioners, researchers and students, both in industry and in university. It is clearly cross disciplinary as it presents and discusses applications in engineering, professional practice (airline pilots) and medicine.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Reflections and Theoretical Contributions Regarding Trainers’ Practice and Simulation....Pages 1-29
Airliners Flying....Pages 31-57
Piloting Nuclear Reactors....Pages 59-85
The Simulator of Critical Situations in Anesthesia....Pages 87-94
Virtual Surgical Simulation: The First Steps in a New Training....Pages 95-117
Simulation to Train Hot Rolling Mill Operators in Metalwork....Pages 119-135
Conclusion....Pages 137-139
Back Matter....Pages 141-148

✦ Subjects

Professional & Vocational Education; Job Careers in Science and Engineering; Simulation and Modeling; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk