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Simulcast is pleased to announce a collaboration with Advances in Simulation , an open access simulation journal based in Europe. In this interview with Editor in Chief Professor Debra Nestel (@DebraNestel), we profile the content, people and philosophy of the journal.   Debra is already a friend of Simulcast, and wrote the expert commentary for our September 2016 Journal Club.   Our plan is to pr...

In our June journal club podcast Ben and Vic discuss the paper of the month.  Cheng et al. “Coaching the Debriefer: Peer Coaching to Improve Debriefing Quality in Simulation Programs” Simulation in Healthcare : The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Publish Ahead of Print, POST AUTHOR CORRECTIONS, 20 May 2017  Ben summarised the blog discussion and Walter Eppich’s expert opinion....

Norma Robinson leads an interprofessional simulation program involving medical students from University of Queensland Rural Clinical School and nursing students from the University of Southern Queensland.   The program is based in Toowoomba but has now been scaled up to include students from many part of rural southern and central Queensland .  Interprofessional education and teamwork training at...

Sara-Catrin Cook joined me for short chat about all things sim at smacc .   Sara is part of a group who has put together a comprehensive simulation theme woven through the conference, including the SIMHaus – a showcase within the Tempdrom where attendees can meet and talk to other simulation enthusiasts ad experts.  The SimHaus will be physically set up next to the main arena, and Sara tells us wh...

In an effort to streamline blog posts, we are continuing a merged Journal Club Podcast and monthly wrap post. Please read our pdf summary of the May Journal Club article, the month’s discussion and our expert commentary here   In our May journal club podcast Ben and Vic discuss the papers of the month – a duo on Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice and the approach to debriefing in this format Structur...

This month we turned our focus to simulation delivery formats, and in particular a novel approach described recently.  Sunga K, Sandefur B, Asirvatham U, et al . LIVE. DIE. REPEAT: a novel instructional method incorporating recursive objective-based gameplay in an emergency medicine simulation curriculum BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning 2016;2:124-126.  We were fortunate to be joine...

  In our April journal club podcast Ben and Vic discuss the paper of the month – a classic debriefing article.   Jenny W. Rudolph, PhD, Robert Simon, EdD, Ronald L. Dufresne, MS, and Daniel B. Raemer, PhD There’s No Such Thing as “Nonjudgmental” Debriefing: A Theory and Method for Debriefing with Good Judgment. Simulation in Healthcare • Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2006    We then reviewed some rec...

This episode was a ‘mix tape’ of moulage and other techniques to achieve physical realism in simulations – including procedural and anatomy teaching Clare Scott  offered her considerable expertise in moulage and making bespoke manikins for trauma simulations. She emphasized keeping in simple, keeping it real and doing your research – online and through networks of interested sim moulage folks (lik...

Simulcast Journal Club podcast March episode    In our March journal club podcast Ben and Vic discuss the paper of the month Marshall, S. D. (2017) “ Helping experts and expert teams perform under duress: an agenda for cognitive aid research .” Anaesthesia, 72: 289–295. doi:10.1111/anae.13707. We shared some highlights from the online discussion, and Ben’s pdf summary is also included here. There’...

I shifted to the other side of the mic a couple of weeks ago - as interviewee. I had spoken at a breakfast meeting of the Australasian College of Health Service Management , and was then interviewed by Anthony Frangi of @popupradioAU about Translational Simulation – my take on how we might think about using sim for quality improvement.

There is increasing use of ‘in situ’ simulation (ISS) – conducted in the actual care environment – as a healthcare simulation modality. This method supports teamwork training, process improvement and the identification of safety threats related to the environment or care systems within that real clinical environment.1,2   The shared reflective experience during simulation promotes transfer of less...

Learning to be an effective simulation educator is a challenge. Education theory and practice, technical aspects and leadership are just some of the knowledge and skills involved.  In this episode of Simulcast we were joined by Demian Szyld , (pronounced ‘shield’…….. “like the weapon” he told me).  Demian ( @demianszyld )  is the Senior Director of the Institute for Medical Simulation at CMS in Bo...

In our February journal club podcast Ben and Vic discuss the paper of the month “Communication in interdisciplinary teams: exploring closed-loop communication during in situ trauma team training”. We shared some highlights from the online discussion, and Ben’s pdf summary is also included here. In short, it seems there’s more to communication skills training than recipes!   We then reviewed 3 rece...

Happy New Year from Simulcast We’ve really enjoyed the Journal Club at Simulcast over the last 6 months. A great array of articles, insightful comments from readers and nice perspectives from expert contributors, and brilliantly curated by Ben Symon . We hope it’s another way to bring the healthcare simulation community together, and discuss and dissect the increasing volume of published literatur...

Day 2 of the Asia Pacific Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (APMSH) with Lance Baily    On Day 2 of APMSH I attended a fascinating workshop with Lance Baily of SimGhosts and Healthy Simulation fame. Lance works in Las Vegas and has established a global reputation in the technical aspects of conducting simulation, for maximal learning effect.   Some of these skills are drawn from his previous li...

Day 1 of the Asia Pacific Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (APMSH) with Kathy Adams and Jesika Gavilanes   A couple of weeks ago, I went to the Asia Pacific Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (APMSH) in Singapore. I gave a talk on some of the in situ ‘translational’ simulation work I’ve been involved with, and it was great to see what other sim educators are doing in our region, and to netwo...

Be open and honest with the team about the true objectives you are trying to achieve. When these are focused on doing better for the patient, people will join the ride. Case: You’ve been running fortnightly scenarios in the nearby simulation centre. These are part of the resident training program and from time to time may get a nurse or two along depending on how busy the department is. While well...

 In this episode we discuss psychological safety in simulation.  Harvard professor Jenny Rudolph, PhD joined us for the discussion, taking time out form her busy schedule as the Director of the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston.  We considered this all too familiar case study……  You’re facilitating a sim session in your ED. The junior docs and the nurses arrive,  a few straggle in late. You...

Day 1 – Cognitive Load theory with Michael Meguerdichia  One of the highlights of attending conferences like the  Australasian Simulation Congress  is the opportunity to meet and learn from members of the international simulation community. Michael Meguerdichia  (@mmegue01 ) is an emergency physician and is Medical Director at The Simulation Center Harlem in New York, part of the  NY Health and Ho...

Day 3 – Debriefing and Faculty Development with Adam Cheng     Adam Cheng’s  (@DocChenger)  work on healthcare simulation debriefing is prolific. He is Director of Research and Development, KidSIM Simulation Program at Alberta Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Canada. We met up at the ASC where I discovered he is also a...

Day 1 – Pause and Discuss with Jessica Stokes-Parish  Jessica Stokes-Parish  (@j_stokesparish)  was a co-convenor for the  2016 Australasian Simulation Congress . In this short interview on Day 1 we talked about the highlights of the conference so far, and her work on women speakers at conferences and women in STEM more generally. See also  @WISSummit   on this topic.

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...