Abstract
The Department of Physiotherapy at Griffith University has implemented simulation-based education since 2012 and focused on "the learning of clinical reasoning."
In particular, a one-week simulation-based education immediately before clinical practice has been suggested to be effective for improving the students' self-confidence in clinical practice and skill learning.
These findings indicate that on-campus simulation-based education is a useful methodology for clinical practice and can be an educational tool for improving the outcomes of clinical practice education.
Meanwhile, the use of simulated patients has been limited by the requirement of training standardized simulated patients and costs.
Many physical therapist-training schools should work together to promote the simulation-based education in Japan.
