The emergence of design practices in healthcare: Designing prevention in medical simulation

This paper investigates the emergence of design practices between medical and non-medical professionals, and the role that such practices play in fundamental concepts of patient safety. It focuses on the early stages of planning as well as subsequent conducting of medical simulation sessions – where scenarios are designed for the improvement of patient safety. While medical professionals participate in medical simulation sessions for learning how to deal with safety-sensitive situations without putting real patients in danger, the design of scenarios requires the collaboration between medical and other professionals, such as engineers and psychologists, for developing together new understandings of patient safety.