• Shangqian Wang, Xiaohan Ren, Jun Ye, Wei Wang, Huaxing Huang, and Chao Qin.
• The State Key Lab of Reproductive, Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 May 21; 100 (20): e25982e25982.

AbstractOver the past decades, extensive studies have underscored the growing importance of simulation-based medical education (SBME) for medical students. However, the underlying influence of SBME on undergraduate students is yet to be investigated. This work is a single-center cohort study involving 1178 undergraduate students who were divided into a control group and an SBME group. All participants gave their written informed consent. We compared the theoretical and practical achievements of these 2 groups and distributed a feedback questionnaire. Results show that SBME significantly improves the practical or theoretical achievements of students (P < .001). The humanistic care (improvement rate: 69.2%) and doctor-patient communication (improvement rate: 56.3%) performances of these studies were vastly improved. The students in the SBME group tend to allocate more time to communicating with others. SBME is an effective teaching method that can improve the reflective capacity and communication skills of undergraduate medical students, thereby resulting in their relatively improved performance.Copyright © 2021 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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