188 Simulcast SESAM 2024 Wrap

Vic and Ben reflect on their time at SESAM 2024 in Prague.  

We were pleased to release this episode in conjunction with Laerdal’s One Million lives podcast  

SESAM is the Society for Simulation in Europe. Their vision is “improved healthcare through simulation. Enabling safe, patient-centred care delivered by a competent and confident healthcare workforce in a well-functioning healthcare system”. The 2024 conference in Prague drew more than 1000 attendees from 63 countries. 

Our highlights included  

1. A brilliant keynote from Lisa Brogaard and Tanja Manser on their research program on nontechnical skills in maternity resuscitation teams. Example articles here and here 
2. A research update from Gabe Reedy and Michaela Kolbe (EIC and Senior Editor at Advances in Simulation). This included a focus on the SiREN network within SESAM. 
3. The announcement that Advances in Simulation now has an Impact Factor – its 2.8 ! More on Impact Factor here.
4. Another excellent keynote – from Prague based journalist and science communicator Daniel Stach
5. Exhibitors and industry updates
6. Great short communications - including an update from Jo Park Ross and Marvin Jansen from Capetown, SA, talking about their SHARE initiative - Simulation in Healthcare for African Research and Education. ‘fostering fairness, equity and diversity in research’  http://blogs.uct.ac.za/SHARE/
7. Our VEMS (Visually Enhanced Mental Simulations) workshop – with Ben’s new resource for VEMS delivery here  

Next year – SESAM is in Valencia Spain June 2025!