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We talk a lot about sim for education or quality improvement, but less about how it can connect us as people.  In this episode Ben and Eve talk to Drs Sam Smith and Vicky Tallentire, the lead authors of a new essay in IJOHS entitled “ Simulation for Social Integration ”.  Together we explore how Sam and Vicky’s article introduces this concept of simulation for social integration, what that means,...

Four more excellent articles for Ben and Vic to discuss this month. Speaking up (or listening down?), transformational debriefing, is deliberate practice really better than self guided practice, and the perils of ‘god-terms’.  Links here.  Barlow et al. Understanding observed receiver strategies in the healthcare speaking up context .   Petrosoniak et al. Are we talking about practice? A randomize...

What do we really mean by ‘IPE’? And how can we design and deliver simulations for IPE outcomes?  In this episode, Vic speaks with Dr Karen Dickinson about her work in IPE at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR., where she is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and the Director of IPE Simulation and Clinical Skills Training.  Karen gave us an overview of work in the ar...

Ben and Vic talk about four articles from the healthcare simulation literature, on diverse topics: psychological safety, cognitive load measurement, roles for maternity emergencies, and reflective pauses to optimise learning  Links here   Bahr, N., Ivankovic, J., Meckler, G. et al. Measuring cognitively demanding activities in pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest . Adv Simul 8, 15 (2023).  Jan...

In this joint episode with The Emergency Mind podcast, Vic Brazil and Dan Dworkis talk about ‘stress exposure’ simulation/ training, and how we prepare ourselves and our teams to perform under pressure. We started with a general discussion about the need for this kind of training and how others have approached it. There are some fantastic resources on this topic, including this one from First10EM....

Ben and Vic talk about four articles from the healthcare simulation literature. Practical lessons mixed with some theoretical deep dives!  Links here   Vemuri, Sidharth. Et al.

Training to listen effectively is a powerful skill that can transform our conversations in healthcare simulation, clinical work and even our home lives.   In this episode Vic interviews Rebecca Minehart, Ben Symon and Laura Rock on their Harvard Business Review article “What’s your Listening Style” in order to deepen our understanding of what listening is, how it can be classified and how we can u...

Ben and Vic talk about four articles from the healthcare simulation literature. This month we had a focus on simulation debriefing and on simulation design and delivery to optimise transfer to practice.  Links here (all open access)  Kaba et al. Entrustable Professional Activities for simulation faculty?! A novel approach to standardizing mentorship and faculty development for healthcare simulatio...

In our latest Advances in Sim collaborative episode, we talk about how to establish and sustain in situ simulation (ISS) programs on health services. Ben and Vic were joined by Susan Eller who is lead author on an important article on this topic: Leading change in practice: how “longitudinal prebriefing” nurtures and sustains in situ simulation programs .  Susan is Associate Dean for Immersive Lea...

More interesting work from the healthcare simulation community this month.   Christensen, M.D., Østergaard, D., Stagelund, S. et al. Embracing multiple stakeholders’ perspectives in defining competent simulation facilitators’ characteristics and educational behaviours: a qualitative study from Denmark, Korea, and Australia . Adv Simul 8, 1 (2023).  Cassidy, D.J., Jogerst, K., Coe, T. et al. Simula...

More interesting work from the healthcare simulation community this month.   Preiksaitis CM, Lee MO, Schertzer K. Creating a Safe Space for Simulation: Is it Time to Stop Calling Them Confederates? Simul Healthc. 2022 Nov 28.   Paul O’Connor, Emily O’Dowd, Sinéad Lydon, Dara Byrne . International Journal of Healthcare Simulation: Developing a strategic plan for a healthcare simulation facility.  ...

Healthcare debriefings have been primarily informed by theories and expert opinions but in this episode Ben explores with Michaela Kolbe how her team took on the remarkable endeavour to code over 18,000 debriefing micro-events from 50 simulation debriefings to uncover the quantitative mysteries inside ‘the black box of debriefing’.  Join us as we explore the evolving evidence on what ‘Advocacy and...

Ben and Vic round out the Simulcast Journal club year with 4 articles. Listed here with links to the full text versions.   Vadla, M.S., Moshiro, R., Mdoe, P. et al. Newborn resuscitation simulation training and changes in clinical performance and perinatal outcomes: a clinical observational study of 10,481 births . Adv Simul 7, 38 (2022).  Høllesli, L. J., Ajmi, S. C., Kurz, M. W., et al. (2022)....

Hierarchy is pervasive in healthcare, and current strategies to train providers to ‘speak up’ are not enough to overcome the intense challenges that hierarchy creates. In this episode, Vic talks with Taryn Taylor and Adam Garber about their recent articles in Advances in Simulation . Both studies explore the experience of practitioners working in teams managing obstetric emergences. Their studies...

More interesting work in healthcare simulation this month, including some from our friends and colleagues.  Before that… A final reminder to register for Sim Reconnect ! – a 1 day seminar at Bond University on the Gold Coast.  And – if you’re working in translational or systems focused simulation – consider enrolling in the Bond subject Translational Simulation in healthcare , stand alone or as pa...

Great articles this month, including some from our friends and colleagues.  Before that… A reminder to register for Sim Reconnect ! – a 1 day seminar at Bond University on the Gold Coast.  And – if you’re working in translational or systems focused simulation – consider enrolling in the Bond subject Translational Simulation in healthcare , stand alone or as part of a Masters of Healthcare Innovati...

The August Journal Club is here, with Ben and Vic talking about 4 papers relevant to our simulation practice.  How do simulation fellows learn some ‘tech skills’? Ahmed et all help us out with Development of a simulation technical competence curriculum for medical simulation fellows , with lessons about learning tech and about how to develop a curriculum. Then we consider ‘arts based pedagogy ‘ in...

“How can we push the boundaries of healthcare simulation research, leading to new insights and innovations?”   Advances in Simulation has announced a new thematic series. Methodological Innovations in Healthcare Simulation Research is “seeking manuscripts that challenge our collective thinking about how to conceptualise, frame, study, and theorise simulation in health and social care article type,...

Ben and Vic offer a short discussion about the self development modules created by a global team of simulation fellows. Ben explains his motivation in leading the project, and explains how simulation practitioners can use the modules for their own professional development. Peer learning, collaboration, and more. Modules can be found here, and feedback and reflections welcome. 

Ben and Vic were back for the July Simulcast Journal Club, with four interesting articles.   Imposters was our first topic – and the prevalence of imposter syndrome among simulation faculty . (and take the chance to look at the IJOHS while you’re on their site) We followed with a paper about anxiety and performance in pre-hospital care students undergoing simulation based assessment.  We enjoyed t...

Most of us would like to improve our simulation debriefing skills, but data informed feedback on our debriefing performance is hard to find. Maybe Andrew Coggins and colleagues are helping us change all that? Maybe there are metrics and measures of our debriefing performance that can help?  In this conversation, Vic speaks with Andrew Coggins about his recent Advances article Immediate faculty fee...

Who is @sim_brick on Twitter?   Vic, Ben and Jess discuss the big issues on the May Simulcast Journal Club.   We started on a more serious note – and discussed articles on working with simulated patients to assess the quality of healthcare , and using Forum Theatre to help healthcare professions manage patients who have suffered domestic abuse . We then talked about learning curves, and a systemic...

Disclaimer: We discuss a commercially available product in this episode. Simulcast nor any of the team received any incentive, financial or otherwise, for hosting, recording or producing this episode and were not influenced in the questions selected.   I was thrilled to be joined by two amazing guests to explore a space in the expanding world of virtual simulation for nursing education. Welcome to...

Deception was one theme in our Simulcast Journal Club for April. We started with a conceptual paper discussing ‘positive’ deception in simulation , and considering the relationship between deception and fidelity in our simulation design. We followed with an RCT on ‘speaking up’ in anaesthesia crises which sought to explore how deception might be necessary or justified if we need ‘sociological fide...

Simulcast Journal Club March 2022    Ben and Vic talk through 4 papers this month; Ethical considerations when conducting active short simulations in healthcare, computer modelling simulations for COVID public health policy, professional identity formation during a neonatology boot camp (with clarification that is not a training session for babies to do push ups), and the INACSL standards of best...