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179 Simulcast Journal Club November 2023

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 

 

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178 Simulcast Journal Club October 2023

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 

177 Simulcast Journal Club September 2023

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 

176 Simulcast Journal Club August 2023

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!  

175 Simulation for Social Integration

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 

 

174 Simulcast Journal Club July 2023

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 

173 Interprofessional Education in Healthcare Simulation with Dr Karen Dickinson

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  

172 Simulcast Journal Club June 2023

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! 

171 Stress Exposure Simulation. Crossover Ep ”The Emergency Mind”.

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 on this topic, including this one from First10EM.  

The main conversation was our recent article - Exploring participant experience to optimize the design and delivery of stress exposure simulations in emergency medicine.  

In our conversation we also talked about adaptive expertise, the book ‘Teams that Work’, and Dan’s application of mental rehearsal and principles from martial arts. 

Happy listening! 

170 Simulcast Journal Club May 2023

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 SC, et al. Interprofessional clinical event debriefing-does it make a difference? Attitudes of emergency department care providers to INFO clinical event debriefings. CJEM. 2022 Nov;24(7):695-701. 

Phillips, Emma et al. Maximizing opportunities during a simulation fellowship. International Journal of Healthcare Simulation April 2023 

Clarke, Samuel et al. Fostering Adaptive Expertise Through Simulation. Academic Medicine. April 21, 2023. And for more on educating for adaptive expertise, you might like to listen to this Harvard Macy Institute podcast.  

 

Also – don’t forget – Simulation Reconnect is on again.  

Wednesday November 15th at Bond University. Registrations open now!