Healthcare Simulation Essentials: Design and Debriefing
The August 22-25, 2023 course will only be offered in person from 8:30 to 16:30 CET.
In these rapidly changing times, the Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) is innovating to meet the challenge. This flagship educator course is now updated to focus on helping participants make a significant, measurable impact on their organization. Participants will learn to work practically and strategically to translate simulation into gains for their learners, colleagues and organization.
To leverage your investment in this course and position your work to have the greatest impact, we will ask you to do some work before you arrive. To get buy-in and support for your program, we will help you identify a real problem that can be addressed with simulation (e.g. patient safety issues, curriculum challenges). We will then integrate your questions and challenges about how to address this organizational problem through interactive small group work.
Participants in the course can expect the exceptional educational experience that the Center for Medical Simulation is known for. Each course will feature several CMS faculty, who will work with learners in small groups to develop curriculum to guide their simulation program, to learn Debriefing with Good Judgment©, and to design simulation courses.
We look forward to working with you in Aachen!
Course Objectives:
- Develop a strategic plan to elicit buy-in, support and make an impact with simulation
- Develop simulation and curricular designs and assessment strategies for clinical readiness and competence
- Build a challenging and safe learning environment
- Conduct and debrief interprofessional simulation scenarios with high learner engagement
- Apply the “With Good Judgment” approach to affect behavior change in multiple contexts
Format:
The course will take place over 4 consecutive days. It is our belief that this intense learning experience is best accomplished with continuous, individualized mentoring from highly experienced CMS faculty and the development of a peer-led community of practice. The course combines didactic and experiential learning with practice and feedback. Participants will run and debrief simulation cases and receive coaching and feedback on debriefing skills from leading debriefing experts.
Introduction to Simulation Instructor Training
Our four- and five-day courses cover all high-level elements and concepts involved in running a simulation program such as debriefing, adult education, scenario development, assessment and research.
World Class Training Experience
The Center for Medical Simulation offers training for simulation leaders, healthcare educators and researchers who want to develop and maintain high-quality healthcare simulation programs through its Institute for Medical Simulation (IMS) Program. Our courses and workshops address both the clinical and behavioral aspects of performance from undergraduates to practicing clinicians with particular emphasis on interprofessional simulation-based education.
Transformational
Most of our simulation instructor workshops are intensive immersions in healthcare simulation that are led by experienced simulation leaders. Using a mixture of flipped classroom, didactics, experiential learning, just-in-time lecturettes and small group work, participants are fully engaged and often find themselves challenging their own assumptions as the activities push them to the edge of their expertise.
Networking
In addition to feedback, debriefing and scenario development skills, our courses and workshops build camaraderie and support within the CMS community of practice. Many participants develop lifelong relationships with members of their workshop through the shared immersion experience and stay in touch long after their workshop ends. CMS fosters these relationships and assists alumni in making connections to nurture the community by hosting an annual reunion of sorts at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH).
History
The Institute for Medical Simulation Program evolved from research developed through a collaborative project between the Center for Medical Simulation and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology funded by a grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.