The phrase "tabletop simulation" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a simulation or game that is played on a tabletop or flat surface, such as a board game or a model set. Example: "The university's engineering club created a tabletop simulation to demonstrate the principles of aerodynamics to their peers."
The objective of this study was to assess the attitudes of emergency medical technicians (EMTs) toward tabletop drills to determine the effect of tabletop simulation on the EMT student perception of disaster preparedness and management.
A tabletop simulation of a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Oklahoma City projected that as many as 2,000 families would be left homeless, Barnes said.
They also led to other applications of the tabletop simulation methodology.
Although scenarios used in tabletop simulation exercises across Thailand to date have been static, in reality, WHO phases 4 and 5 are likely to emerge over several days and weeks.
Myanmar used the methodology in 2008 to plan its response to a severe outbreak of diarrhea; Lao PDR used it in 2009 to plan medical emergency preparedness while hosting the Southeast Asian Games; and Vietnam conducted tabletop simulation exercises in 2009 and 2010 for the control of animal-to-human disease transmission.
Specifically, as described in Text Box 1, MBDS and its partners (RF, NTI, CDC and RAND) designed and carried out a series of "tabletop" simulation exercises to: i) explore national and regional cross-border strategies in pandemic emergencies; ii) identify priorities to improve preparedness and response; and iii) develop recommendations to help guide further MBDS programming and donor investments.
Those worries did prompt the Army to begin a series of tabletop simulations to plan for protecting American forces during the rotation, Army officers said.
From August to October 2006, MBDS brought together representatives from the public health, agriculture, foreign affairs, defense, and finance sectors and from WHO, OIE and UNSIC to develop scenarios and plan and carry out a series of tabletop simulations within each country.
Although tabletop sports simulations had been popular since the fifties, computer processing allowed the Collyers to build a game that felt expansive, in which your team's progress was just one story line among many.
We then designed a school closure tabletop exercise using our simulation model as a decision-support tool for evaluating the effectiveness of school closure as a community mitigation strategy for pandemic influenza.
URP is a tabletop-based urban planning simulation tool that urban planners can use to understand the relationships between building location, time of day, shadows, and wind.
