The Center for Medical Simulation

Professionals are overcommitted both at home and at work. And feeling busy doesn’t help stress. When professionals try to take tasks off their plate, mentorship may be a first to go. Understandably, this relationship and commitment is mostly unpaid, uncompensated, and underrecognized work. In this discussion, we offer a reframe of the conversation on mentorship. We wish mentorship to gain the atte...

Online learning doesn’t have to be a pale imitation of “real” in-person learning. It’s a whole new way of interacting with learners. What if instead of a boring, predictable series of discussion question posts and assignments, your online courses were a dynamic journey that surprises and engages learners?

Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) faculty are often asked to share their perspectives on a variety of topics. These informal discussions often take place during meal breaks during courses or in the hallways at conferences. These questions often lead to interesting discussions and sharing of resources. Questions and comments for this informal question and answer session were submitted prior to th...

During this presentation, Dr. Sarah Janssens will expand on how she became interested in the topic of leadership and why she decided to focus specifically on the subject of shared leadership. Together, Dr. Demian Szyld and Dr. Janssens will discuss the results of a systematic review which examined how leadership is shared within healthcare emergency teams, exploring the how and why of leadership s...

Hospital environments and clinical care has become complex. Managing interfaces across different aspects of the health system is critical, for example, patient flow across departments in a hospital. There has been a call for addressing these and other human factors in healthcare, but it is not clear what interventions are supported by data. Dr. Saša Sopka, anesthesiologist and medical education re...

Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) faculty are often asked to share their perspectives on a variety of topics. These informal discussions often take place during meal breaks during courses or in the hallways at conferences. These questions often lead to interesting discussions and sharing of resources. Questions and comments for this informal question and answer session were submitted prior to th...

Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) faculty are often asked to share their perspectives on a variety of topics. These informal discussions often take place during meal breaks during courses or in the hallways at conferences. These questions often lead to interesting discussions and sharing of resources. Questions and comments for this informal session were submitted prior to the webinar and live d...

Design thinking, a human-centered design method, represents a potent framework to support the planning, testing, and evaluation of new processes or programs in healthcare. As opposed to traditional education needs assessment, design thinking takes the next step (beyond the impact on learning) to explore, diagnose, and test how new interventions will impact actual patient care and workflow. Andrew...

Most of us in the simulation community have a lot to learn about making a difference regarding racism, how to integrate anti-racism, implicit bias, healthcare disparities and the like, into our work.  In the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breanna Taylor, and many others, the simulation community needs to take action. What can we do? We are experts on practice, learning, and creating...

As faculty have rapidly adopted online learning, many have found it challenging – the technology, managing the curriculum, and especially connecting with learners in a meaningful way. Join experienced online teachers as they discuss creating an online community of practice and facilitating meaningful experiential learning online. Learning Objectives Following this webinar, participants will be abl...

Scholarship is an important element of an academic career. Most health professions faculty are expected to produce scholarly work. But what exactly is scholarship? Aside from publishing a research study, what does that mean? How does one become A Scholar? How does a busy clinician make that happen? Join experienced researchers Mary Fey, PhD, RN, Jenny Rudolph, PhD, and Suzie Kardong-Edgren, PhD, R...

Simulation-based curriculum should fit into a clear learning progression and solve important developmental problems for the healthcare organization. This webinar introduces participants to the SimZones system of matching learners and learning objectives with optimized simulation-based learning curriculum and pathways. The “with good judgment” approach to SimZones offers a robust approach to curric...

Since the start of the modern simulation era, many in the healthcare simulation community have taken a “Field of Dreams” approach to our simulation efforts, believing, like the character Ray Kinsella in the movie of the same name, that “If we build it, they will come.” Often, however, “buy-in” to simulation programs is just as difficult as getting real people to come to a baseball diamond in the m...

What do you do when your emotions get out of control during a debriefing? Do you need to limit them, or can they actually help us make good decisions about care? Join us this week as a German, Australian, and American discuss very different perspectives on getting emotional at work.

Goals like "I'm going to communicate better" are far too broad for effective learning outcomes. How can we make our takeaways more precise? What mistakes do we make when we think we're being learner-centric in our conversations, when actually they need a little more from us as debriefers. Janice, Kirsty, and Marcus explore this week on SimFails!

How do you work with embedded participants and simulated patients when doing assessment in simulation? How do you make sure that any assessments you do are both valid and reliable, especially if you don't have a way to see what your participants are thinking? Join us this week to learn from our assessment failures!

Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser led to the development of healthcare simulation into the massive industry it is today.

Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser led to the development of healthcare simulation into the massive industry it is today.

Learn more and watch the video interview at http://www.harvardmedsim.org/resources/jeff-cooper-the-history-of-simulation/

Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser led to the development of healthcare simulation into the massive industry it is today. Learn more and view the video interview at http://www.harvardmedsim.org/resources/jeff-cooper-the-history-of-simulatio...

Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser led to the development of healthcare simulation into the massive industry it is today. Check out the video interview at https://harvardmedsim.org/resources/jeff-cooper-the-history-of-simulation/ Sign up fo...

Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser led to the development of healthcare simulation into the massive industry it is today. Check out the video interview at http://www.harvardmedsim.org/resources/jeff-cooper-the-history-of-simulation/ Sign up...

Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser led to the development of healthcare simulation into the massive industry it is today. We’ll be releasing a new chapter of this history every week for the next seven weeks, so be sure to check back soon! L...

This week, Janice brings up a traumatic episode from her experience: a team reveals in debriefing that their department regularly does something unsafe for patients. How do we keep patients safe while also maintaining confidentiality? Why is confidentiality important in debriefing? People need to feel safe taking risk and making mistakes in order to learn and improve. Simulation is not stand alone...

SOAP BUBBLE EMOTIONS: In this week's SimFails, Marcus brings us a failure from the reactions phase of debriefing, and an argument that's existed about that phase. How do we go from scripted searches during that phase looking for a "feelings word" to genuine emotional inquiries from one person to another? How do we listen to the hidden emotions behind participant's words and in their non-verbals? L...