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Case You’ve got your sim program up and running. The sessions are regular and you’ve managed to find a time when the doctors and nurses can both come. You’ve mastered the technical stuff well enough and you’ve run some cracker scenarios. Your debriefing is … well….. getting better…. During your performance review with your department head, she says that you really ought to be publishing some of th...

Debriefing is a social event – wisdom from Walter Eppich   Case Ellen felt anxious walking into the debrief room. The ED team had just finished an in situ simulation where the focus was on rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in head injury, and using the new intubation checklist. This was the third sim session in a series the department had agreed to run following 3 patient cases where significant des...

2 - Pause & Discuss: The Australasian Simulation Congress with Julian Van Dijk    Collaboration is vital for successful sim programs, and yet we often work in isolation from fellow simulation enthusiasts. The  Australasian Simulation Congress  is a great opportunity for those of us in this part of the world to learn, to network, and to be inspired in our simulation work. It’s a joint effort for Si...

You have been asked to develop a five-year strategic plan for simulation services in your hospital. Through your literature review you recall an article by David Gaba, ‘The future vision of simulation in healthcare’. All your dreams have been answered. In 2004 Gaba mapped the dimensions of organisational applications of simulation. You are thrilled to find his projection of two possible histories...