ASA SimSTAT: Ripoff, or just a complete waste of time?

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Gasmandster

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I can't emphasize strongly enough how bad the SimSTAT modules are. They fall into the classic "guess what I'm thinking" pattern of teaching, but with far less education than most. After plunking down a grand, you'll be faced with computer "games" that waste an hour on orientations and intro's before being put into a kludgy "simulation". As things deteriorate, you quickly realize that things you'd normally do are not available as options, and what you might do takes needed time with many, many dead clicks to find the action you want. Sadly, unlike the AHA ACLS simulator, you can't pause this dog while you struggle to find out how to "tell the surgeon to level the bed" or to "give dantrolene". By the time you find it, IF you find it, the patient's dead and you're kicked to a 'debrief' that in essence says "You failed. Guess what we're thinking" and you have to start all over. Can't say it enough, stay away from this thing and pursue free options for part 4 as others here have mentioned elsewhere in the forums.

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