Manikin-Based Simulation: an Update to the Clerkship Experience.

Rachel Sherhart, M.D.
Baker, S.E., Escamilla, K., Jacobs, M., Sherhart, R., Trello-Rishel, K. and Fuehrlein, B. (2021). “Manikin-Based Simulation: an Update to the Clerkship Experience.” Acad Psychiatry May 18; 1-2. [Epub ahead of print]. 1-2.
High-fidelity manikin-based simulation (MBS) was introduced into the psychiatry clerkship experience at Yale University several years ago [1]. Despite its growing popularity and use in other specialties, this technology is not widely incorporated into psychiatry education [2]. Our group wished to study student attitudes toward this technologically driven educational tool as part of a psychiatry clerkship experience to understand if it would be well received by students and could be utilized more widely.[No abstract; excerpt from article].