Psychotherapy in the debrief room, Sim to improve blood transfusion systems sand safety, exploring simulation ‘dose’ for maintenance of skills, and comparing student self-assessment with educators and SPs . Another great month on Simulcast. The articles: - Drake, G. Drewek, K. “I Hate Sim!”—Using Psychotherapeutic Concepts to Help Educators Attend …

Demystifying simulators, replacing live tissue training for surgery, exploring uncertainty through simulation, and writing conference abstracts. Another great month on Simulcast. The articles: - Goodwin B, Nestel D. Demystifying simulators in healthcare. International Journal of Healthcare Simulation 2024. Swain C, et al. Trauma surgical simulation…

Mental practice, designing and testing clinical pathways/ cognitive aids and supporting communities of practice in healthcare. Another great month on Simulcast. The articles: - Riggs, J., McGowan, M. & Hicks, C. Dream one, do one, teach one: a mental practice script for bougie assisted cricothyrotomy. Can J Emerg Med (2023). Marshall SD, Sanderson …

Simulcast and Bond University hosted the Simulation Reconnect symposium at the end of November. last year. A great day of talks, networking and sharing our healthcare simulation experience. For those who could not be there (and for those looking for a little reminder of key points) – Jess and Vic offer you our Sim Reconnect FOMO episode. Some highl…

Welcome to another “Advances in Simulation Edition” In this episode, Jesse is (finally) back behind the mic to interview Ellie Davies and Victoria Brazil about their work and recent publication in Advances in Simulation. Davies, E., Montagu, A. & Brazil, V. Recommendations for embedding simulation in health services. Adv Simul 8, 23 (2023). https:/…

Teams and teamwork were the themes for our November Journal Club. In this special episode, Ben and Vic were joined by Eve Purdy to review four articles that took us on a deep dive into team science, team training using simulation and researching teamwork. This is the first of a series on teamwork that we will be releasing over the next 12 months at…

AI and Chat GPT in simulation and in publishing, helping babies breathe (and live) through simulation training and another take n the ‘safe not soft’ discussion - four more excellent articles for Ben and Vic to discuss this month. Links here. Rodgers, David et al. Artificial Intelligence and the Simulationists. Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal…

Death of the simulator, co-regulated learning, simulation-enabled building redesign, and writing better (or not) with Chat GPT - four more excellent articles for Ben and Vic to discuss this month. Links here. Rajendran G, et al. (August 10, 2023) The Effect of Simulated Patient Death on Learner’s Stress and Knowledge Retention: A Systematic Review …

Virtual and older SPs, transformative simulation, and psychological safety - four more excellent articles for Ben and Vic to discuss this month. Links here. Weldon et al. Transformative forms of simulation in health care – the seven simulation-based ‘I’s: a concept taxonomy review of the literature Smith et al. Older adults as simulated participant…

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 simula…

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 a…

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 Train…

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-hospita…

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…

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. Informing Simulation Design: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study of the Experiences of Bereaved Parents and Actors. Simulation in Healthcare: 18(2):p 75-81, April 2023. Rose S…

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 listeni…

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 …

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 pro…

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). Cas…

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…

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 ex…

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.…

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 te…

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…

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…

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 curric…

“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 si…

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 feedb…

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 underg…

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 …

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 …

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 virt…

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 nec…

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 …

Vic speaks with Eve Purdy about their recent paper in Advances in Simulation - Taking simulation out of its “safe container”—exploring the bidirectional impacts of psychological safety and simulation in an emergency department. We talk about the shared experience of many simulation educators that led to the research question – How does psychologica…

Calling for help by junior medical staff is frequently a focus of healthcare simulation activities, but our first paper highlights how the impact is perhaps more complex than we have previously realised, and there is real risk of harm. We then looked at a paper describing the development of the marvellous LIFE App for neonatal resuscitation in LMIC…

Simulation based education involves thinking, but also feeling. Emotions are pervasive and powerful, and they impact on performance and learning – in both healthcare simulation and of course in the real world. In this episode we talk with Vicki LeBlanc and Glenn Posner about the research on emotions, cognitive processes and learning, and their narr…

Simulation can provide an opportunity to experience life/ experiences other than our own, and this can include experience of ill health – diseases, conditions and treatments. Hot off the press from Advances in Simulation, Walking in the shoes of our patients is a scoping review in which the authors sought to understand the ways that simulation can …

Simulcast Journal Club New Year’s Edition 2022 Vic & Jesse Jesse was unable to join the rest of the Simulcast Team Christmas Edition so this is the consolation prize ep!! In this podcast Vic and Jesse discuss 2 publications from 2021. Paper 1. recommended by Tim Mason “Advancing Team Cohesion: Using an Escape Room as a novel approach” Cohen and col…

Ben, Vic and Jess offer a bumper holiday episode for your healthcare simulation listening enjoyment. Transformative faculty development, suspension of disbelief in simulation, emotional activation for observers and participants, SPs or SPs – what’s in a name?, a taxonomy of non-technical skills, and lessons from the Fat Duck ……. Thanks to those who…

Ben talks about ‘Plus Delta’ debriefing with lead authors of 2 recent papers on the topic both published in Advances in Simulation. Adam Cheng starts the conversation talking about Embracing informed learner self-assessment during debriefing: the art of plus-delta, and giving us plenty of reasons to ensure this technique is on our repertoire as sim…

Atul Malhotra and Arunaz Kumar joined Vic to speak about their work delivering obstetric and neonatal simulation workshops in India, and their recent article in Advances in Simulation. We talked about ONE-Sim – Obstetric Neonatal Emergency Simulation - workshops conducted in LMIC, Australia, and online. Atul and Arunaz have reflected on the process…

Carl Horsley is an intensivist from Middlemore hospital in New Zealand who talks with Vic about Safety II principles and practice, and new ways that simulation can be interwoven into our work for safer outcomes. He explains that team development is a ‘long game’ and gives us practical tips for building on his work in our own institutions. Carl also…

Is rapid cycle deliberate practice a better way to train for paediatric cardiac arrest? How can simulation and ‘institutional ethnography’ be used to explore ‘latent social threats’ in healthcare? Ben and Vic discuss these papers in our November journal club, as well as an amazing technical report on VR modelling to improve surgeons preparation for…

Jess and Vic talk about the topic of moulage - a French word meaning "to mould", but more commonly known as the use of special effects makeup techniques to replicate illness and effects. Jess talks about her PhD journey and her (shock horror!) moulage scepticism that drove her to studying the topic. We discuss some of the theories that relate to mo…

In this episode Vic and Jesse have a long overdue on air catch and talk through a human centred design project to improve medication safety in the Intensive Care Unit that Jesse has being working through in his day job. Vic and Jesse discuss, real world applications of Safety-II approaches, the core philosophy and practices of psychological safety …

Ben and Vic kicked off this episode talking about some upcoming healthcare simulation events – NYSIM Hot topics virtual symposium October 22nd (USA) , The ASPIH ‘Moving Upstream’ conference 8th – 10th November (UK), and the RCPSC 2021 Simulation Summit, November 4th and 5th (Canada) We gave some shout outs to friends of Simulcast who’ve joined us i…

There is a new journal on the block. The International Journal of Healthcare Simulation – Advances in Theory and Practice is led by Editor in Chief Debra Nestel AM and “provides a forum to share scholarly practice for advances in simulation across diverse applications in health and social care.” Peer viewed, and open access, IJOHS is jointly owned …

Equity, diversity and inclusion in healthcare simulation – reflecting on our values, beliefs and actions Many in the simulation community are thinking about the ways we might work on equity, diversity and inclusion through healthcare simulation. We are tempted to try and ‘fix’ inequities and biases, but are also aware than if badly done – these ‘fi…

We recorded the September Journal Club during Healthcare Simulation Week – a chance to reflect on the amazing work of the healthcare simulation community. Our first paper showcased the work of the STEPs (Simulation To Enhance Patient Safety) team at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth. Rory Trawber et al. write about Improving Simulation Accessibility …