Medical Simulation as a Public Social Capital

Abstract

Managing medical simulation is not easy for facilities facing high operation costs and human resource shortages, while it would be expected as a method of realizing higher medical quality and safety. From the results of our small questionnaire survey, over sixty percent of facilities claimed that the university budget is the only financial source of operating simulation center, as well as making students and early year residents the main recipients of training. The outcome of medical simulation training, however, should be meaningful to society. Therefore medical simulation could be a type of social and public capital in its function. This essay will list the essential requirements for establishing public capital substances in simulation training through considering the feasibility of building a new business paradigm of co-payment and co-provision of simulation outcome, and the necessity of policy change for the disbursement of simulation as well.