The Center for Medical Simulation

In this week’s Curious Now, Jenny explains how the “Generous Inference” was a complete game-changer for her career in debriefing and education, how it became the core philosophy of the Center for Medical Simulation, and how to bring it to play in healing your toxic work culture. Get coaching from Jenny Rudolph at www.harvardmedsim.org Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP A...

Welcome to our second chapter of Curious Now! We’re joined by a new set of simulation educators as they work through our weekly workouts together. For the next five episodes, we’ll have an Australian focus as we’re joined by B.J. So, an anesthetist and simulation educator based in the Sydney area, and Mel Barlow, a registered nurse and academic lead for faculty support at Australian Catholic Unive...

In this month's CMS Book Club, Roxane Gardner, Executive Director of the Center for Medical Simulation, is joined by Jenny Rudolph, Grace Ng, and James Lipshaw to discuss Melanie Deziel's "The Content Fuel Framework." Join us for a spicy discussion on getting your team's message heard, whether ideas have any value at all, and if this book is a useful tool for those brought up in the STEM pathway t...

A nurse of Ned/Surg has been there for two years. She’s interested in moving into cardiac care—she’s always been interested in it—and as she sits in the break room, the clinical nurse specialist comes in to talk to her, and says, “Hey, we’re going to be able to get you some time in the CCU! We should be able to do this in the next couple of weeks. I know you’ve really been wanting to get some expe...

Colleen Donovan shares a story from her time as a resident where an encounter with a consistently angry, unhelpful, and very sick patient turned into a moment of wonderful human connection and support after she was able to reset herself and get curious about what was going on. Coaching from Jenny Rudolph at www.harvardmedsim.org Curious Now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2...

If you’re in the same boat as so many of the clinicians we work with, you may be feeling that the puff is still out of your pillow post-pandemic. Understaffed, working with colleagues who are newer to their professions, and feeling like there are fewer moments we can rest in trusting our teams to get the work done right. In the final episode of Chapter 1 of Curious Now, we put the whole package to...

Our guests for Chapter One explain their struggle with understanding the standards of other people when implementing new practices for competency-based education. The faculty have tried to explain a continuous growth and development model, but students are still hearing, “You didn’t perform well enough to pass.” What are the barriers to understanding how the students perceive the program, and how...

Colleen Donovan and Laura Klenke-Borgmann rejoin Jenny to discuss the emotions that came up as they explored last week’s exercise. Join us to compare your own experience with last week’s workout to other simulation educators and experts! Curious Now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP Curious Now on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-m...

What happens when someone’s actions don’t meet our standard? Even in innocuous situations, with complete strangers, we can find that we have a flaming hot judgment rearing up inside of us. Instead of thinking, “I bet this person has a really good reason for doing what they’ve doing,” our first reaction is often, “What an idiot!” In this week’s episode, Jenny explores how when there’s a conflict, w...

Continuing along the chain from hidden judgments and hidden standards, Jenny Rudolph explores the fundamental question beneath the heat of workplace conflicts—why does other people’s failure to meet our hidden standards make us so upset? How do we cool off these conflicts and help ourselves move forward? Learn more from Jenny Rudolph at www.harvardmedsim.org Curious Now on Spotify: https://open.sp...

Following up on last week’s challenge to examine our complaints and judgments to reveal the hidden standards underlying them, Jenny continues our chapter-long conversation with Colleen Donovan and Laura Klenke-Borgmann. Curious Now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP Curious Now on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/...

In Chris Voss' book "Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended on It", one major point made is that a high-stakes conversation is never just about the words being said. Much more, it's about hearing the emotional state of the other person and really listening to what they have to say and what they need from you. How does this compare to your model for debriefing after a crit...

Every "judgment" or "complaint" we have about others reveals a hidden standard that we hold about how people should behave, both in our general lives and in the workplace. By becoming aware of our own hidden standards, we can defuse the heat of arguments when we think someone else is doing something "wrong." Learn more from Jenny Rudolph at www.harvardmedsim.org Curious Now on Spotify: https://ope...

A nurse preceptor has just watched a trainee commit a serious error despite hours of lecture, reading, and hands on training. In spite of herself, she starts to heat up, much like the more severe clinical educators who trained her years ago. "Why can't you just get this right?" In this moment, how do we reset ourself to a place of care, curiosity, and compassion? How do we model a better culture o...

This CMS Grand Rounds video is a companion discussion to our newly published research article, "Readiness planning: how to go beyond “buy-in” to achieve curricular success and front-line performance" published in Advances in Simulation (https://advancesinsimulation.biomedce.... Join us at #IMSH2025 in Orlando for workshops from our faculty team on Readiness Planning, or visit www.harvardmedsim.org...

In this CMS Book Club, a Faculty/Fellows panel compares notes from two perspectives on education and information finding, based on their reading of "Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It" by Ian Leslie.

This month, the CMS Book Club discusses "Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization." CMS works closely with healthcare organizations to help improve culture via conversations, which aligns with the thesis of this book, which is that how we talk to one another is a primary driver of culture in an organization. Can every organization achieve a top-level culture? H...

Professor Mohammed Mouhaoui joins Lon Setnik and James Lipshaw from the Center for Medical Simulation to discuss the history of the HTIC simulation in Morocco. Lon visited the Moroccan Simulation Society in Fès in 2024 as a speaker and shares his experience meeting Prof. Mouhaoui and with the Moroccan sim community.

Join the reconvened Center for Medical Simulation Book Club as we discuss Amy Edmondson's excellent "Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well." Featuring Roxane Gardner, Grace Ng, Jenny Rudolph, Chris Roussin, Lon Setnik, Laura Gay Majerus, James Lipshaw, Henrique Arantes, Hannah Lawn, Melissa White, Saqib Dara, and Lia Cruz. In this episode: A mildly spicy conversation around using outcom...

In this week's Brief Debriefing, past and current participants in the Center for Medical Simulation's Healthcare Simulation Essentials course (https://harvardmedsim.org/course/healthcare-simulation-essentials-design-and-debriefing/) reflect on how the course has changed their approaches to partnership building and teaching in their own organizations. Hosted by James Lipshaw, Center for Medical Sim...

Not every simulation center has a readiness plan in place for onboarding new simulation staff, particularly those without clinical experience. At CMS, we begin by having our new staff participate as learners in our weeklong Healthcare Simulation Essentials course, immersing them in our teaching and debriefing strategies. In this week's Brief Debriefing, we're speaking with Jenny Bourque and Sam Hu...

What to do when your debriefing gets dragged off-track by someone who was supposed to be on your side? Join us this week for more SimFails... and Other Conversations from the Sim Sofa.

This CMS Grand Rounds features Susan Eller, Komal Bajaj, and Jenny Rudolph, moderated by James Lipshaw. The speakers discuss the article "Leading change in practice: how "longitudinal prebriefing" nurtures and sustains in situ simulation programs," written by authors Stephanie Barwick, Sarah Janssens, and today's three speakers. Article Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36681827/ More from CMS...

Didn't preprogram the mannequin or fully brief your team? Now your patient's vitals are going haywire and the Embedded Simulation participants are in full improv mode? Join us for what to do next and next time in this weeks "SimFails."

Center for Medical Simulation Grand Rounds: Teaching, Coaching, or Debriefing with Good Judgment: A Roadmap for Implementing With Good Judgment Across the SimZones. Featuring Jenny Rudolph, PhD, Mary Fey, PhD, and Kate Morse, PhD. Visit www.harvardmedsim.org/resources for more CMS Grand Rounds podcasts!