Proximal Reality

In simulated conditions, I examine the architecture of clinical training - those environments where care, risk, and professional identity are rehearsed within controlled boundaries before meeting real consequence.

Drawing on my role within the NHS, I observe how pressure is constructed and managed through simulation, and how students begin to inhabit professional roles in a safe space where mistakes can be removed through repetition. Here, practice is both performed and learned, shaped by systems that replicate the unpredicatable labour of the ward without ever fully reproducing its true lived experience.

“Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human presence ” - Rollo May