The Center for Medical Simulation

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!

"Please Hold for Technical Difficulties": Accidental monitor arrhythmia, mannequin head on fire, powerpoint on the fritz... What do you do when a technical problem threatens to derail your simulation or your debriefing?

Has anyone other than Janice Palaganas ever attempted to take two Zoom meetings simultaneously? Zoom Exhaustion and other crises in multitasking this week on "SimFails."

What happens when you realize halfway through a debriefing when you realize you don't know enough about the topic you are trying to teach? Join Janice Palaganas, Kirsty Freeman, and Sacha Muller-Botti for more SimFails!

SimFails returns to fail again! Janice Palaganas, Kirsty Freeman, and Sacha Muller-Botti discuss this week: what happens when your sim is too real for your participants? How do you recover?

SimFails returns to fail again! What do you do when participants try to cheat their way through the simulation experience?

"Circle Up: Debriefing in the Clinical Environment," presented by Jenny Rudolph and Demian Szyld at Tower Health Grand Rounds.

We're back for Healthcare Simulation Week 2021 and with a spate of new episodes for the future! Join Janice Palaganas, Kirsty Freeman, and Sacha Muller-Botti as they share a new year's worth of simulation fails, so that you can learn from their mistakes.

New from the Center for Medical Simulation: A new study in "Obstetrics + Gynecology" finds a significant reduction in malpractice claims against physicians who participate in simulation-based communication and teamwork training, including a dose-response effect for each instance of training. Join Roxane Gardner, Senior Director of Clinical Programs at the Center for Medical Simulation and Senior A...

From IMSH 2021's Virtual Conference, featuring Demian Szyld, Stuart Rose, Jennifer Arnold, Esther Leon, Paul Mullan, Cristina Diaz-Navarro, Bram Welch-Horan, Pier Luigi Ingrassia, & Laura Rock.

Expertise of the debriefer is critical to ensure simulation participants achieve the best possible learning outcomes. Debriefers need a specific skills set in order to balance multiple priorities, including covering all learning objectives, facilitating reflection, incorporating teaching and feedback, managing student questions, maintaining psychological safety, and at the same time, allowing conv...

Following this webinar, participants will be able to: Describe the role conversation plays in driving organizational culture Contrast front-line workflow adaptation using briefing and debriefing versus traditional planning approaches in shaping culture Explain the role of discovery and curiosity in conversations to support staff well-being and reliability and avoid burnout and inconsistency

We take it for granted that effective teams apply crisis resource management skills during emergency care, but how often do those teams also rehearse teamwork from the start of each shift together, through centering, agreements, briefings, and practicing connectedness? Amelia Rudolph and Rebecca Minehart share how preparing teams means more than practicing drills, and that conceptualizing care del...

Building on the discussion in Building on the discussion in Broaching Race and Racism in Debriefing and Team Simulations (Part 1), CMS presents a conversation with healthcare leaders who are directly addressing discrimination, burnout and health disparities through simulation education. They partnered with CMS to create and launch this successful program.

Meet the Author is an opportunity to hear from leaders in the fields of healthcare simulation, patient safety and education about the process and outcomes of their scholarship. You are invited to listen and comment as our team interviews contemporary authors in the field. This is a chance to hear about aspects of the projects that did not make it into the publication and learn about their craft an...