The Dolls' Engineer - A personal journey through three decades of medical simulation

Number of pages: 100

Publication date: 15/06/2023

Target audience: Healthcare professionals and the general public interested in an accessible personal perspective on how simulation developed and transformed medical training and education over the last three decades.  

Simulation based medical education has all but replaced training on lifeless dummies, animals, and real patients.  This represents a paradigm shift in medical education and training.  The book provides a first informal perspective on these recent transformations.

This short, entertaining autobiography explores how a life in science and technology unfolds between historical conditions, encounters, and a few personal decisions. It gives the reader an inside look at the radical transformation of medical education and training by simulation which took place over the last three decades.  Follow one of its inventors on his exciting path between medicine and engineering, academia and industry, and across 4 continents.  An anesthesia simulator that created an industry, a high-fidelity childbirth simulator, and visual explanatory models for acute care providers are all introduced.

Simulation continues to transform medical education and training.  To understand this process and assess potential future developments, information about the past is essential.  This book by one of the long-term leaders in the field may well be the first to fulfill that need, and does so in a compact, informal way.  You will gain insight into several of the devices on the market and information about the people that created them.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Preface by Dr. Stefan Mönk

1. Feeding the ducks

2. Meeting my mentor

3. The Spanish inn 

4. Biomagical engineering

5. Old Ports 

6. All that jazz 

7. OK lah

Au revoir?

Acknowledgements

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