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The Surgical Education Learners Forum (SELF) is a global community of practice developing cost\u2010effective, scalable, open\u2010access training modules that let clinicians anywhere learn, practice, and evaluate procedural skills independently. This fifth and final article in the SELF series reports expert opinion from the 2023 SELF Symposium on a pathway to scale, addressing evidence generation, digital delivery platforms, and the barriers and actions needed to achieve widespread adoption.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>An interprofessional group of surgeons, trauma and critical care practitioners, academics, educators, technologists, and learner representatives participated in three facilitated working sessions on evidence generation and reporting, platforms, and a theory of change. Each session used structured small\u2010group discussions guided by common prompts, thematic clustering of responses on shared working walls, and individual voting to prioritize recommendations. Responses were subsequently consolidated, re\u2010sorted by theme, and returned to participants to verify accuracy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In the evidence generation session, participants prioritized setting SELF standards and definitions\u2014chiefly defining study types and the level of evidence required for each. For platforms, credibility and transparency, findability, and accessibility emerged as the dominant learner and developer concerns, with minimizing bandwidth and enabling offline use of the top\u2010ranked best practice; the leading calls to action were to construct a supporting community of practice and convene a standards group. In the theory of change session, participants ranked individual factors highest, with engaging influential champions and senior gatekeepers who drive organizational decisions receiving the most votes overall, followed by language and communication, organizational, and economic and legal factors.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Together, these sessions chart a practical way forward for low\u2010cost, open\u2010access, self\u2010assessed procedural skills simulation, emphasizing rigorous evaluation, credible and accessible delivery platforms, and coordinated engagement with key stakeholders. High\u2010quality training materials must be matched by equally rigorous studies evaluating them, and by sustained, methodical efforts to overcome barriers to acceptance.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1002\/wjs.70626","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,21]],"date-time":"2026-10-21T12:46:47Z","timestamp":1792586807000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Scaling SELF Simulation Training: SELF Series Article 5"],"prefix":"10.1002","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6092-0202","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vanessa","family":"Moll","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anaesthesiology Division of Critical Care Medicine University of Minnesota  Minneapolis Minnesota USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9335-4294","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Deborah 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