Medical Simulators for E-Learning and Teaching in Healthcare

When we talk about "Simulation in Medicine", we mean the employ-ment of tools (either software or dummy) that allow the simulation of a standard patient in a virtual reality mode to reproduce different clinical settings. The aim is the teaching of diagnostic and therapeutic proce-dures with concomitant training of healthcare professionals in relation to currently accepted guidelines. Simulation tools can contribute to improve health care safety with bet-ter training for professionals. Simulation is considered a pedagogical and educational tool with wide application in all medical specialties. One possible definition is the following: "....The simulation refers to the artificial representation and/or amplifi-cation of behavior or characteristics of a simple or complex system through the use of another system in order to ensure the evaluation (through the analysis of the pathways, processes and procedures), the education (through experiential learning and cognitive analysis) and the research (through reproduction and testing of models)....."