Table of contents

Original Articles

• The future vision of simulation in health care (1 October, 2004)

  D M Gaba
• A brief history of the development of mannequin simulators for clinical education and training (1 October, 2004)

  J B Cooper, V R Taqueti
• Identifying and reducing errors with surgical simulation (1 October, 2004)

  M P Fried, R Satava, S Weghorst, A G Gallagher, C Sasaki, D Ross, M Sinanan, J I Uribe, M Zeltsan, H Arora, H Cuellar
• The simulated operating theatre: comprehensive training for surgical teams (1 October, 2004)

  R Aggarwal, S Undre, K Moorthy, C Vincent, A Darzi
• Developing observational measures of performance in surgical teams (1 October, 2004)

  A N Healey, S Undre, C A Vincent
• Simulations in the United States Medical Licensing Examination™ (USMLE™) (1 October, 2004)

  G F Dillon, J R Boulet, R E Hawkins, D B Swanson
• Using standardised patients in an objective structured clinical examination as a patient safety tool (1 October, 2004)

  J B Battles, S L Wilkinson, S J Lee
• The use of simulation for training teamwork skills in health care: how low can you go? (1 October, 2004)

  J M Beaubien, D P Baker
• Translating teamwork behaviours from aviation to healthcare: development of behavioural markers for neonatal resuscitation (1 October, 2004)

  E J Thomas, J B Sexton, R L Helmreich
• Objective measures of situation awareness in a simulated medical environment (1 October, 2004)

  M C Wright, J M Taekman, M R Endsley
• The complexity of team training: what we have learned from aviation and its applications to medicine (1 October, 2004)

  W R Hamman
• Identifying and training non-technical skills for teams in acute medicine (1 October, 2004)

  R Flin, N Maran
• The human factor: the critical importance of effective teamwork and communication in providing safe care (1 October, 2004)

  M Leonard, S Graham, D Bonacum
• Implementation of team training in medical education in Denmark (1 October, 2004)

  H T Østergaard, D Østergaard, A Lippert
• How to turn a team of experts into an expert medical team: guidance from the aviation and military communities (1 October, 2004)

  C S Burke, E Salas, K Wilson-Donnelly, H Priest