The Center for Medical Simulation

Resus Linguistics: Jenny Rudolph and Rebecca Minehart are at ResusTO in Toronto, Ontario, and are podcasting their post-session debriefs! Join us for this session as Rebecca and Jenny discuss Keri White and Vic Brazil's workshop. There's a declining tone from the pulse oximeter as your patient becomes increasingly hypoxic... How explicit do you need to be with your team when moving toward a partic...

SIMULATE TO COMMUNICATE: CMS faculty Walter Eppich and Janice Palaganas sit down at the end of an intensive weeklong course to discuss how simulation can help develop your team's communication skills with three participants: Suchismitta Datta, Alexis Graham-Stephenson, and Michael Morgan. Enjoy!

Today we present a few examples of personal and clinical moments where advocacy inquiry allowed one of our coworkers at CMS to stay curious and get to the root of someone else's thinking when presented with a surprising or upsetting situation. Watch the animated version at https://harvardmedsim.org/?p=222865

Today we present a few examples of personal and clinical moments where advocacy inquiry allowed one of our coworkers at CMS to stay curious and get to the root of someone else's thinking when presented with a surprising or upsetting situation. Learn more at www.harvardmedsim.org !

in 2018, Jenny Rudolph presented "Helping without Harming" at SMACC, where she led the audience in moving from "WTF?!" to "What's their frame?"  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2aC_yyORM) Today we present a few examples of personal and clinical moments where advocacy inquiry allowed one of our coworkers at CMS to stay curious and get to the root of someone else's thinking when presented with a...

FRAMES ACTIONS RESULTS: The Learning Pathways Grid (or "LPG") is a tool we use at the Center for Medical Simulation to discover how we often get in the way of our best intentions, reframe our thinking to empower speaking up, and find techniques that are doable to enable us to speak up in the future. In this episode of Brief Debriefings, Kate Morse leads Melanie Barlow of Mater Education in Brisban...

FINDING PATHWAYS TO SPEAK UP: The Learning Pathways Grid (or "LPG") is a tool we use at the Center for Medical Simulation to discover how we often get in the way of our best intentions, reframe our thinking to empower speaking up, and find techniques that are doable to enable us to speak up in the future. In this episode of Brief Debriefings, Jenny Rudolph leads Donna Bonney, Chief Executive of Ma...

FINDING PATHWAYS TO SPEAK UP: The Learning Pathways Grid (or "LPG") is a tool we use at the Center for Medical Simulation to discover how we often get in the way of our best intentions, reframe our thinking to empower speaking up, and find techniques that are doable to enable us to speak up in the future. In this episode of Brief Debriefings, Jenny Rudolph leads Janice Palaganas through the Learni...

Guess What I’m Thinking! In this week’s episode of Brief Debriefings, Jenny Rudolph joins Shaun Grant, a pediatrician from New Zealand, and Kelly Roszcszynialski, a physician in emergency medicine and simulation fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to discuss the challenge and peril of “Guess What I’m Thinking” questions. Shaun and Kelly re-enact a spicy debriefing event to show how...

"Distress is in the Eye of the Beholder": Michael DeVita, former president of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and Chief Medical Officer of EarlySense, joins Dan & Janice to talk about his development of the "rapid response" team with the goal of preventing cardiac arrest rather than just responding to it, as well as surprising results from virtual gaming that can improve code response per...

FRAME SHIFT: “I found out that telling the truth doesn’t make you the bad guy. Telling the truth is actually your job and it’s going to be beneficial for the learners and for yourself.” In this episode of Brief Debriefings, we talk with Frédérique Gauthier, Audrey Larone Juneau, and Lon Setnik, three participants from the May 2019 Advanced Instructor Course at the Center for Medical Simulation (CM...

GRADE LEVELS: Dan & Janice discuss how accidentally joining an expert biking tour of Portugal lent surprising insight into the experience of simulation learners. Also: the best ways to shepherd new learners through difficult tasks, and making challenge levels more learner-driven. Enjoy!

ROCKET DAN: Dan & Janice return, addled by time zone and weather changes, to talk about how to keep your sanity when juggling or transitioning roles in a healthcare organization. Also: forgetting your coworkers names, holding on to humility, and fighting against presenteeism when your work requires travel. Enjoy!

WHISPERED RULES: Join Suzie Kardong-Edgren, Jenny Rudolph, Janice Palaganas, & more from the CMS Book Club as we discuss Laura Liswood's "The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity While Embracing Differences". Enjoy!

BRIEF DEBRIEFINGS: “A lot of what we did this week was centered around effective communication…and often times that skill is just as important as the care that we deliver and the manner in which we deliver it.”- Lisa Osborne, DNP, CRNA. In this episode of Brief Debriefings, we talk with Tonya Schneidereith, Greg Louck, and Lisa Osborne about their experience participating in the Comprehensive Inst...

CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MARY FEY: Many educators struggle with how to help their learners achieve high standards of practice while also maintaining a caring relationship with them. The new book by Sue Gross Forneris and Mary Fey, "Critical Conversations: The NLN Guide for Teaching Thinking" teaches how to grapple with this problem in three arenas: clinical teaching, simulation teaching, and cl...

CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MARY FEY: Many educators struggle with how to help their learners achieve high standards of practice while also maintaining a caring relationship with them. The new book by Sue Gross Forneris and Mary Fey, "Critical Conversations: The NLN Guide for Teaching Thinking" teaches how to grapple with this problem in three arenas: clinical teaching, simulation teaching, and cl...

CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MARY FEY: Many educators struggle with how to help their learners achieve high standards of practice while also maintaining a caring relationship with them. The new book by Sue Gross Forneris and Mary Fey, "Critical Conversations: The NLN Guide for Teaching Thinking" teaches how to grapple with this problem in three arenas: clinical teaching, simulation teaching, and cl...

CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MARY FEY: Many educators struggle with how to help their learners achieve high standards of practice while also maintaining a caring relationship with them. The new book by Sue Gross Forneris and Mary Fey, "Critical Conversations: The NLN Guide for Teaching Thinking" teaches how to grapple with this problem in three arenas: clinical teaching, simulation teaching, and cl...

PERSONAL PREVIEW: This week, Dan & Janice explore the two types of preview, the value of disclaimers, and bringing the preview to social settings. Enjoy!

NAME DROPPING: This week, Dan & Janice explore how to credit the creators of the ideas you use in your teaching. Also: When is naming scholars helpful to learners, and is publishing research even valuable? Enjoy!

LEARN THROUGH TALK: Walter Eppich, Demian Szyld, and Mary Fey join Dan & Janice to discuss Walter's PhD research on conversational learning, simulation as a means to better care for patients, productive tension, disguised feedback, & more. Enjoy!

CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS: Mary Fey joins Janice and guest hosts Walter Eppich and Demian Szyld to discuss her & Sue Forneris' monograph "Critical Conversations: The NLN Guide for Teaching Thinking," and the history of nursing simulation, as well as the effects on the teaching world of the study showing that 50% of clinical nursing hours could be simulation with similar outcomes. Enjoy!

PSYCH SAFETY: Join Roxane Gardner, Kate Morse, Laura Rock, Ignacio del Moral, & Janice Palaganas as they discuss Amy Edmondson's book "The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Innovation, Learning, and Growth."

PSYCH SAFETY: This week, Dan & Janice want to revolutionize how we establish psychological safety, with lessons learned from a piano teacher. Also: the role of modeling, getting buy-in for high stakes practice, the crisis menu, and more. Enjoy!