Simulation-based teaching and learning is far from new in education. Educating to and practicing in vocation as close to reality as possible, without causing injury or material and financial high costs, has been done for many years. As education to professions enters the academic organization, so do their traditions in teaching and learning, and thus these teaching and learning practices also enter higher education pedagogy and become part of the educational development in colleges and universities. One strength in this change process is that the area of simulation-based teaching and learning is also discovered systematically through research. So, what can this research contribute to?

This is a presentation of preliminary results from a systematic literature review within a PhD-project.  The aim with the structured review is to provide an organized overview of the nature of the research done in the field of simulation-based teaching and learning in academic education to professions, with an entry from pedagogy. It holds a critical approach and strives at uncovering questions such as: what and how is being researched what themes and domains are highlighted and what can we learn from this?