Experiencing disability in a simulation setting : What are the educational benefits for students, healthcare professionals, and trainers?

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present an innovative program, the STIMUL Experiment, designed to revitalize the pedagogical approach to ethics in the healthcare sector. Its goal is to foster ethical reflection on “caring” through the implementation, within an ethics-in-care laboratory, of a teaching approach centered on the experiences of healthcare providers and students in a simulation setting. The article seeks to answer the following question: “How can a simulation-based training program empower students, healthcare professionals, and instructors who encounter disability?”. To answer this question, we will draw on the accompanying workbooks distributed to the 68 participants during the various sessions, as well as on analysis reports from debriefings and post-session evaluations.

Keywords: disability, empowering environment, ethics education, simulation, training program.