Interprofessional simulation as an enhancement of psychological fidelity: A focus group study of medical and nursing students.

Background And Aims: Interprofessional simulation has the potential to enhance the perceived realism of clinical simulation in the education of different healthcare professionals. This study considers how the inclusion of more than one profession in clinical simulation contributes to this psychological fidelity, defined as the subjective perception of the realism of a simulation, and the cues identified by medical and nursing students.

Methods: Eight focus groups were carried out with 27 medical and 18 nursing students in Newcastle and Oxford, UK.