Simulation-based training is regularly used to improve teamwork competencies of healthcare professionals. However, it is uncertain how we can improve the transfer of learning from training to the clinical setting.

Therefore, an international expert working group including PhD student Johannes Wittig, MD, Associate Professor Krisitan Krogh, MD PhD and Associate Professor Kasper G. Lauridsen, MD, PhD from the Research Center for Emergency Medicine investigated how conditions before- or after simulation-based training of teamwork competencies can affect learning or transfer of skills to the clinical environment.

The review identified that factors before- and after training, such as coaching, wider communication of learning objectives, or leadership initiatives, may aid in facilitating the transfer of skills to the clinical environment.

The systematic review informed the first guidelines of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare which supported the review.

The systematic review is published in Simulation in Healthcare and can be read here: https://journals.lww.com/.../a_systematic_review_on...

The Society for Simulation in Healthcare Guidelines for Simulation Training can be found here: https://journals.lww.com/.../society_for_simulation_in..