Evaluation of high-fidelity manikin simulation in emergency medical services education in Saudi Arabia

Alqahtani, Majed 2024. Evaluation of high-fidelity manikin simulation in emergency medical services education in Saudi Arabia. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

At the centre of this study are two evaluation models—Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model and the context, input, process, and product (CIPP) evaluation model—to assess the efficacy of implementing high-fidelity manikin simulation in emergency medical services (EMS) education in Saudi Arabia. This thesis has produced important contributions to EMS education in Saudi Arabia, expanding upon previous studies by combining the two evaluation models to examine the programme outcomes, input, and process. The study extends the literature on outcome evaluation or programme evaluation by examining faculty’s and students’ perceptions of the efficacy of high-fidelity manikin simulation before or during the COVID-19 pandemic. By combining Kirkpatrick’s and CIPP evaluation models, we examined faculty’s and student’s satisfaction, preparedness, and the challenges in implementing high-fidelity manikin simulation as stakeholders and develop evaluation tools that might help EMS institutions in terms of quality assurance within simulation laboratories and improve paramedic students technical and nontechnical skills in the Saudi context. The findings of this thesis reveal that faculty and students were satisfied with the simulation design features and the best educational practices of the simulation sessions. However, based on the qualitative data, faculty and students were affected by many challenges that reduced the maximal use of the high-fidelity manikin simulation sessions. The two studies in Chapters 4 and 5 revealed that faculty and students were satisfied with simulation design features and best educational practices before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Four themes were identified from the studies in this thesis: institutional issues, support needs, assessment and feedback, and challenges in teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results from Study 3 indicated that the three translated instruments examined in the Saudi context—the simulation design scale, the educational practices questionnaire, and the student’s satisfaction and self-confidence in learning scale—are reliable and valid for use in EMS institutions.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Date Type:	Completion
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Medicine
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	31 October 2024
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2024 11:46
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/172835

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