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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 highlights   Vicki LeBlanc talked about emotions and simulation. More from Vicki on Simulcast here.  Katie Walker and Ben Symon talked about ROI and demonstrating value and impact from our sim work.   Ellen Davies gave us the Art and Science of designing recommendations for an organisation-wide simulation program. Our recent podcast with her here  Zach Buxton helped us demystify 3 D printing for simulation educators.   Ian Summers shared his “Confessions of a manikin addict”   Another nice summary of the day in IJOHS – thanks Liam McCollow  And finally …We are on again in 2024  Wednesday 27th November. Sim Reconnect 2024. Mark your diaries!  In the meantime, if you’re interested in writing…. An academic, educator or clinician who just wants to ‘write better’… Consider our Writers festival at Bond University Monday 18th March. More information and registrations here   

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://doi.org/10.1186/s41077-023-00262-3   We explore the background to this work and look to understand:   The concept of sim being embedded - why/ what contexts?   What do good 'embedded' sim services do?   The recommendations. The recommendation domains are: (1) governance and leadership; (2) human resources; (3) principles and planning; (4) operationalise and evaluate and (5) look to the future. For more detail listen to the episode or head to Advances in Simulation in Healthcare to read the article. You can find Ellie, Adam and Victoria on LinkedIn and also contact Ellie as the corresponding author of the article on Advances.

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 Simulcast. Our motivation is to give simulation practitioners a deeper understanding of teamwork and to enable more nuanced conversations about team performance and improvement in the debriefing room and beyond. We want to go beyond simple concepts and buzzwords about teamwork.   Relax though, if you are not a teamwork nerd……in 2024 our Simulcast Journal Club will run every month with our usual eclectic mix of literature, and our teamwork thread episodes will be additional.  So, this month we embarked on the journey with some classics:  Rosenman et al. Changing Systems Through Effective Teams: A Role for Simulation. Academic Emergency Medicine 2017  Hicks and Petrosoniak. The Human Factor Optimizing Trauma Team Performance in Dynamic Clinical Environments. Emerg Clin N America 2018  Bolton et al. Revisiting Relational Coordination: A Systematic Review. Journal of Applied Behavioural Science 2021  Anderson et al. Understanding adaptive teamwork in health care: Progress and future directions. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 2021  We also reflected on some great offerings from Eve and Ben with their talks on Relational Coordination and transactive memory systems at DFTB22.    Also – don’t forget – Simulation Reconnect is on again.   Wednesday November 15th at Bond University. Registrations open now!     Happy listening    vb 

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 of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, September 21, 2023.  Scerbo, Mark Can Artificial Intelligence Be My Coauthor?. Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare 18(4): p 215-218, August 2023.  Vadla, May Sissel et al.. Increase in Newborns Ventilated Within the First Minute of Life and Reduced Mortality After Clinical Data-Guided Simulation Training. Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, July 18, 2023.  Pai, Dinker Ramananda MS, FRCS (Edin), CHSE, FSSH. Recovering From Adversity: Do We Need to Protect Our Learners?. Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare 18(5):p 349-350, October 2023.  Also – don’t forget – Simulation Reconnect is on again.   Wednesday November 15th at Bond University. Registrations open now!     Happy listening 

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 and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Cureus 15(8): e43278  Lorello GR, et al. Relinquishing control? Supervisor co-regulation may disrupt students' self-regulated learning during simulation-based training. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2023 May 28.  Smith-Millman M,et al. Hazard Assessment and Remediation Tool for Simulation-Based Healthcare Facility Design Testing. HERD. 2023 Aug 7  Lingard L. Writing with ChatGPT: An Illustration of its Capacity, Limitations & Implications for Academic Writers. Perspect Med Educ. 2023 Jun 29;12(1):261-270.  Plus Ben referred to this interesting Revisionist History episode – on answering new moral dilemmas through the Jesuit practice of casuistry. (We listen to podcasts as well you see)      Also – don’t forget – Simulation Reconnect is on again.   Wednesday November 15th at Bond University. Registrations open now!     Happy listening 

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 participants: a scoping review  Bond et al. The Use of Virtual Standardized Patients for Practice in High Value Care  Klenke-Borgmann et al. Role Clarity and Interprofessional Colleagues in Psychological Safety: A Faculty Reflection    Also – don’t forget – Simulation Reconnect is on again.   Wednesday November 15th at Bond University. Registrations open now!  

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 simulation for social integration, what that means, and then what that looks like through a series of case studies from sim teams around Scotland.  In doing so we unpack some deeper theories from the social sciences about the seeds of discord and how we can blossom them into something more productive.  Many thanks to Sam, Eve and Vicky for their time.  Reference:   Samantha Eve Smith, Victoria Ruth Tallentire. Simulation for social integration, International Journal of Healthcare Simulation,  . 10.54531/tdzn8875. https://www.ijohs.com/article/doi/10.54531/tdzn8875   

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 al. Are we talking about practice? A randomized study comparing simulation‑based deliberate practice and mastery learning to self‑guided practice  Varpio & Sherbino. Demonstrating causality, bestowing honours, and contributing to the arms race: Threats to the sustainability of HPE research  Kainth & Reedy. Transforming Professional Identity in Simulation Debriefing: A Systematic Metaethnographic Synthesis of the Simulation Literature    Also – don’t forget – Simulation Reconnect is on again.   Wednesday November 15th at Bond University. Registrations open now!     Happy listening 

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 Training.  Karen gave us an overview of work in the area of IPE – “learning about, from, and with other professions”. Groups such as the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) offer resources such as this scoping review of IPE and patient care and this Institutional Assessment Instrument (readers can evaluate their IPE efforts locally)  We spoke about the differences and similarities between ‘IPE’ and ‘team training’ in sim and the barriers and enablers of this kind of work.   Karen cited some examples, including interprofessional trauma simulations, and the mock trial involving health professions and law students,  (previously discussed on Simulcast!)  A cross-cutting theme was that success requires a thoughtful change management strategy, including institutional alignment, deep engagement with stakeholders, and using evidence-informed approaches.  Thanks to Dr Karen Dickinson for her insights  

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-hospital cardiac arrest. Adv Simul 8, 15 (2023).  Janssens, Sarah & Kikkawa, Yoriko & Mavin, Timothy. (2023). How do maternity teams perform in and perceive a role-based approach to teamwork in maternity emergencies? A qualitative study in simulation. International Journal of Healthcare Simulation. 10.54531/wywv6555.  Lee JY, Donkers J, Jarodzka H, Sellenraad G, Faber TJE, van Merriënboer JJG. The Effects of Reflective Pauses on Performance in Simulation Training. Simul Healthc. 2023 May 3.  Somerville SG, Harrison NM, Lewis SA. Twelve tips for the pre-brief to promote psychological safety in simulation-based education. Med Teach. 2023 May 21:1-8.  Also – don’t forget – Simulation Reconnect is on again.   Wednesday November 15th at Bond University. Registrations open now!