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Learning through simulated independent practice leads to better future performance in a simulated crisis than learning through simulated supervised practice.

Goldberg A, Silverman E, Samuelson S, et al. Br J Anaesth. 2015 Jan 8; [Epub ahead of print].

Simulation training has been increasingly adopted as a valuable teaching tool, particularly for surgeons and anesthesiologists. This study found that allowing first-year anesthesia residents to independently fail at a scenario, causing simulated morbidity or mortality, resulted in better performance on a different, but similar, scenario 6 months later.

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