Simulcast

218 Human Factors and Translational Simulation with Dara Byrne, Paul O'Connor and Angela O'Dea

Human factors and translational simulation: misunderstandings and potential opportunities JOHS 2025 by Paul O’Connor, Dara Byrne, Angela O’Dea 

This article is a call to “join the conversation with human factors practitioners to realise the significant, yet largely untapped, synergies between human factors and translational simulation” This episode is one of those conversations! 

The authors call for closer collaboration between human factors experts and simulation teams to directly improve patient care and health systems. Vic speaks with Dara Byrne, Paul O'Connor and Angela O'Dea to explain definitions, common misunderstandings, and practical examples — from device design and procedural kits to preparing new hospitals. 

The key points: Translational simulation acts as a safe "lab" for systems testing, the importance of systems thinking and data, and practical steps to build sustainable multidisciplinary partnerships that produce measurable, realworld improvements. 

Paul O’Connor is a human factors psychologist and Personal Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Galway, Ireland. He is the Research Director of the Irish Centre for Applied Patient Safety and Simulation, and Diploma and Masters in Healthcare Simulation and Patient Safety. 

Dara Byrne is the Health Service Executive National Clinical Lead for Simulation in the Republic of Ireland and the Professor of Simulation at the University of Galway. She established the Irish Centre for Applied Patient Safety and Simulation (ICAPSS) in 2017 – accreditation and awards 

Angela O’Dea is human factors psychologist with a background in organisational psychology. She is a senior Lecturer in Human factors Patient Safety and Simulation at University of Galway and leads the PG Diploma in Healthcare Simulation and Patient Safety. 

217 Simulcast Journal Club December 2025

Join us for the December edition of the Simulcast Journal Club, hosted by Vic Brazil and Ben Symon. In this episode:  Simulation for older adults health assessments, training for orthopaedic technical skills, resolving latent safety threats, and a call for manuscripts in the theme of translational simulation. 

 

The December papers 

Larsen BH et al. Simulation training for holistic and systematic health needs assessments of older adults: a qualitative study. Adv Simul. 2025;10:64.  

Gilmore C, Napier R, Ballard J. Transforming learning in trauma and orthopaedics: a proof-of-concept study on a novel 3D printed model with real-time intra-operative radiographic feedback. J Healthc Simul. 2025; Published 05 December 2025.  

Weller J, et al. Resolving latent safety threats identified through in situ simulation: a multicentre mixed-methods study. Adv Simul. 2025; [Article in Press].  

Brazil V, Eller S, Bajaj K. Reimagining simulation for quality and safety in healthcare: connecting paradigms, methods, and communities. Adv Simul. 2025;10:63.  

 

Another great month on Simulcast. 

Happy listening and happy holidays 

  

216 Simulcast Journal Club November 2025

Join us for the November edition of the Simulcast Journal Club, hosted by Vic Brazil and Ben Symon. In this episode: Sense of presence in sim, connecting human factors and translational simulation, positive deviants in in situ simulation and students portraying patients in simulation. And some serious stats… :-) 

The November papers 

Chevalier S, et al. ‘It feels like I was there!’ A cross-sectional study to understand the sense of presence in simulation, the role of internal factors and simulation modalities. 
J Healthc Simul. 2025; https://doi.org/10.54531/QUXY5470 

O’Connor P, Byrne D, O’Dea A. Human factors and translational simulation: misunderstandings and potential opportunities. J Healthc Simul. 2025; Published 2 Oct 2025. https://doi.org/10.54531/UYWH1164 

Baril L, et al. Uncovering success stories: how to resuscitate in situ simulation initiatives in Canadian emergency departments. Adv Simul. 2025;10:47. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41077-025-00376-w 

Dalwood, N., et al.  ‘Acting it out really makes it stick in your brain’: Educating students for patient portrayal during peer simulation. Medical Teacher, 2025. 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2025.2570820 

Another great month on Simulcast. 

Happy listening 

  

215 Outreach Simulation: Measuring the impact on systems with STORK

Vic speaks with Ben and two special guests about their recent papers on ‘outreach simulation’, and how they used educational courses on Paediatric resuscitation around rural and regional Qld to understand system challenges faced by these sites. The conversation illustrates the importance of program philosophy, long term relationships and systematic approaches to identifying and following up system challenges.  

Alex St-Onge-St-Hilaire is a paediatric emergency medicine physician and co-director of the simulation fellowship at KidSIM, based at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Canada. Alex recently completed a fellowship in simulation education trained with the STORK team  

Louise Dodson is a Simulation Nurse Educator with the Children’s Health Queensland STORK team. She is a paediatric emergency nurse by trade and helped develop the hospital wide simulation program at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane around 20 years ago.   

Ben Symon (as well as being a Simulcast Co-producer!)  is a simulation consultant for STORK, where he leads the fellowship program and coordinates resource and course development. 

 

Paediatric resuscitation in regional Queensland: A simulation informed biopsy of current system challenges. Emergency Medicine Australasia 2025 A. St‑Onge‑St‑Hilaire, B. Lawton, L. Dodson, J. Acworth, D. Hufton and B. Symon 

Outreach simulation for system improvement: a novel advocacy and reporting process. Advances in Sim 2025 A. St‑Onge‑St‑Hilaire, B. Lawton, L. Dodson, J. Acworth, D. Hufton and B. Symon 

More about STORK and their educational work here.  

Happy listening! 

214 Simulation Reconnect Singapore 2026 Promo

Join us in Singapore next year July 16th and 17th for Simulation Reconnect. 

In this short episode, Vic is joined by Daniel Seng from Woodlands Health, who will be hosting the event in 2026. 

We welcome simulation practitioners, educators, clinical leaders and quality improvement specialists. The program features workshops and talks, with speakers from Singapore, Australia and Norway. All this in beautiful Singapore, 

To register your interest, please go https://for.sg/interestsimreconnect26 and we will reach out with more updates when registration opens. 

 

213 Simulcast Journal Club October 2025

Join us for the October edition of the Simulcast Journal Club, hosted by Vic Brazil and Ben Symon. In this episode: AI in simulation, simulation reducing sick leave, calculating the cost of simulation, and simulation based toolkits to address hospital acquired conditions.  

 

The October papers 

 Cheng A, McGregor C. Applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare simulation: a model of thinking. Advances in Simulation. 2025;10:45. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41077-025-00379-7  

Schram AL, Bonne NL, Henriksen TB, Hertel NT, Petersen PG, Bjerrum MC, et al. Effect of simulation-based team training on sick leave among healthcare professionals: a multisite controlled follow-up study. Journal of Healthcare Simulation. 2025 Sep 3. https://doi.org/10.54531/XCVT3140 

 Verhoeff TL, Janssen JJHM, Röell AE, Hoff RG. The surprising costs of on-site surgical team CRM training: a Dutch example analyzed. Advances in Simulation. 2025;10:37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41077-025-00367-x  

Barker LT, Bond WF, Willemsen-Dunlap AM, Cooley KL, McGarvey JS, Ruger RL, et al. Simulation-Debriefing Enhanced Needs Assessment to address quality markers in health care: an innovation for prospective hazard analysis. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2025;51:144–158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjq.2024.10.004  

 

Another great month on Simulcast. 

Happy listening 

212 Advances in Simulation: Value-Based Simulation in Healthcare with Lisa Barker and Katie Walker

How do we demonstrate the value of what we do in healthcare simulation? 

This question prompted Lisa Barker and a stellar author team to develop a new model for thinking about value in simulation. They present that model - and the thinking behind it - in Value-based simulation in healthcare: a new model for metrics reporting, recently published in Advances in Simulation. They authors describe their article as “.. designed to support simulation teams and organizational leaders in selecting relevant measurement strategies, aligning simulation work with institutional goals, and co-creating metrics that are operationally meaningful.” 

In this Simulcast/ Advances episode, Vic speaks with Lisa Barker and two of her co-authors; Ben Symon and Katie Walker. Our conversation started with a look back at the challenge of measuring and demonstrating value from simulation activities, and a timeline summary of how this issue has been approached over the last 25 years.  We then parse the value-based simulation in healthcare (VBSH) model, comprising six distinct but interdependent categories: Service Products, Program Perceptions, Acquired Expertise, Workplace Performance, System Benefit, and Value Analyses. Lisa, Ben and Katie leave us with some final thoughts as to how this might be applied in practice and offer some speculation about future work on value in healthcare simulation. 

Some of the many references to background literature in our conversation included: 

Barsuk JH, McGaghie WC, Cohen ER, Balachandran JS, Wayne DB. Use of simulation-based mastery learning to improve the quality of central venous catheter placement in a medical intensive care unit. J Hosp Med. 2009 Sep;4(7):397-403. 

Nestel D, Brazil V, Hay M. You can't put a value on that… Or can you? Economic evaluation in simulation-based medical education. Med Educ. 2018 Feb;52(2):139-141. 

Varpio L, Sherbino J. Demonstrating causality, bestowing honours, and contributing to the arms race: threats to the sustainability of HPE research. Med Educ. 2023;58(1):1–7 

Barker L. et al, Simulation-Debriefing Enhanced Needs Assessment to Address Quality Markers in Health Care: An Innovation for Prospective Hazard Analysis, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Volume 51, Issue 2, 2025, 

Happy listening 

211 Simulcast Journal Club September 2025

Join us for the September edition of the Simulcast Journal Club, hosted by Vic Brazil and Ben Symon. In this episode: Adapting simulating across cultural contexts, ‘Choosing Wisely’ for sensible sim, Video assisted simulation reflection – for teachers!, and simulation in Italy.   

And HOT OFF THE PRESS… 

The AMEE conference Simulation Journal Club was on last week. We reviewed the 4 shortlisted papers on Simulcast with Rune Del Jessen and Gabe Reedy a few weeks ago. The event went well, with standing room only at the presentation of papers in Barcelona. And the winner is … 

 “I Hate Sim!”—Using psychotherapeutic concepts to help educators attend to challenging states of mind during simulation prebriefs.by Drake G, Drewek K.  

Congratulations! 

 

The September papers 

Charnetski MD, Asoodar M, Wawersik D, van Mook W. Navigating cultural landscapes: a thematic analysis of home faculty experiences in transborder simulation curriculum development and adaptation. BMC Med Educ. 2025;25:888.  

Monteiro S, Sibbald M, Beecroft J, Bhanji F, Caners K, Chen R, et al. Choosing wisely for simulation-based learning in health professions education. Med Sci Educ. 2025.  

Levin O. ‘Reflecting on every move’: the role of video in simulation-based learning for teacher education. Eur J Teach Educ. 2025.  

Ingrassia PL, Barelli A, Benedetti E, Bressan S, Carenzo L, D’Agostino F, et al. A national position paper for the strategic development of healthcare simulation in Italy. J Patient Saf. 2025.  

 

Another great month on Simulcast. 

Happy listening 

  

210 Simulcast Journal Club August 2025: Live from ASC Adelaide

Join us for the August edition of the Simulcast Journal Club, recorded live at the Australasian Simulation Congress 2025 in Adelaide:  

Vic was joined by guest Adam Montagu , Ellen Davies and Parick Frost to discuss two papers relevant to the work being done at Adelaide Health Simulation 

Davies, E., Crawford, L., Crawford, T. et al. Capturing and cultivating the simulated patient/participant (SP) experience: a qualitative study exploring how the perspectives of SPs can inform the co-production of an orientation resource guide. Adv Simul 10, 14 (2025) 

Davies, E., Montagu, A. & Brazil, V. Recommendations for embedding simulation in health services. Adv Simul 8, 23 (2023). 

 

Some upcoming conferences and courses 

• VSA Translational SIMposium (Northern Health 17 October) https://vicsim.org/component/eventbooking/vsa-event/victorian-translational-simposium 

• Douglas Starship Simulation Advanced Workshop (Courtesy of Erin Carn-Bennett) 

• S3 conference in Singapore – Ben is speaking! 

• Taryn Taylor comes to Bond University - Primed for Insight: Simulation to explore teams and culture 

 

Another great month on Simulcast. 

Happy listening 

  

209 Advances in Simulation: Translational simulation to support a hospital move with Nathan Oliver

Moving hospitals? How can simulation help? 

In the latest of our collaborative episodes with Advances in Simulation, Vic interviews Nathan Oliver about his recent article:  

Oliver, N., Twentyman, K. & Howie, K. ‘Everybody’s voice is important’: using translational simulation as a component of change management. Adv Simul 10, 38 (2025). 

Nathan and team were asked to support the transition to a new hospital in Scotland. They took a very human centred approach, and we discussed Laura Rock’s adage to ‘not answer feelings with facts’ when considering staff anxieties about change. They drew upon Bartenuk’s work to orient their thinking about how change was experienced at the individual level, beyond simply measuring resistance or readiness. 

The simulation strategy, design, delivery and debriefing were guided by Nickson’s IPO model. 

• Nickson, C.P., Petrosoniak, A., Barwick, S. et al. Translational simulation: from description to action. Adv Simul 6, 6 (2021) 

Among many interesting elements, we reflected on the process of Systems focused debriefing, including some great work in this area by others. 

• Dubé, Mirette M. et al. PEARLS for Systems Integration: A Modified PEARLS Framework for Debriefing Systems-Focused Simulations. Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare 14(5):p 333-342, October 2019. 

• Colman, N., Dalpiaz, A., Walter, S. et al. SAFEE: A Debriefing Tool to Identify Latent Conditions in Simulation-based Hospital Design Testing. Adv Simul 5, 14 (2020) 

• Bentley, S.K., McNamara, S., Meguerdichian, M. et al. Debrief it all: a tool for inclusion of Safety-II. Adv Simul 6, 9 (2021) 

We discussed data strategies for translational simulation, and the challenges of generating actionable insights from translational simulation. 

One other interesting aspect was one of the data collection methods, using post it notes to capture ‘in the moment’ feelings. 

• Kolbe M, Rudolph JW. What's the headline on your mind right now? How reflection guides simulation-based faculty development in a master class. BMJ Simul Technol Enhanc Learn. 2018 Jul 9;4(3):126-132. 

Nathan was also generous with his shout-outs to collaborators in the simulation and the scholarship of this project, including Simon Edgar, Dan Hufton, Vicky Tallentire and of course his co-authors Kathryn Twentyman and Katie Howie. Congratulations to Nathan and the team. 

Happy listening!