Simulcast

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! 

169 What’s Your Listening Style?

Training to listen effectively is a powerful skill that can transform our conversations in healthcare simulation, clinical work and even our home lives.   In this episode Vic interviews Rebecca Minehart, Ben Symon and Laura Rock on their Harvard Business Review article “What’s your Listening Style” in order to deepen our understanding of what listening is, how it can be classified and how we can use this knowledge to shape the ways we connect with the humans around us. 

If you’d like to explore what your listening style is, you can check out the quiz in Bodie’s 2013 paper here. 

The paper 

Minehart, R., Symon, B. and Rock, L. (2022) What's your listening style?, Harvard Business Review. Available at: https://hbr.org/2022/05/whats-your-listening-style  

168 Simulcast Journal Club April 2023

Ben and Vic talk about four articles from the healthcare simulation literature. This month we had a focus on simulation debriefing and on simulation design and delivery to optimise transfer to practice. 

Links here (all open access) 

Kaba et al. Entrustable Professional Activities for simulation faculty?! A novel approach to standardizing mentorship and faculty development for healthcare simulation programs. International Journal of Healthcare Simulation. 2023;:1-10. 

Baliga, K., Halamek, L.P., Warburton, S. et al. The Debriefing Assessment in Real Time (DART) tool for simulation-based medical education. Adv Simul 8, 9 (2023). 

Shariff et al. Learning After the Simulation Is Over: The Role of Simulation in Supporting Ongoing Self-Regulated Learning in Practice. Academic Medicine 95(4):p 523-526, April 2020 

Frerejean, J. et al. Critical design choices in healthcare simulation education: a 4C/ID perspective on design that leads to transfer. Adv Simul 8, 5 (2023) 

 

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

Wednesday November 15th at Bond University. Registrations open in May.  

167 Advances in Simulation: Longitudinal prebriefing for successful in situ simulation

In our latest Advances in Sim collaborative episode, we talk about how to establish and sustain in situ simulation (ISS) programs on health services. Ben and Vic were joined by Susan Eller who is lead author on an important article on this topic: Leading change in practice: how “longitudinal prebriefing” nurtures and sustains in situ simulation programs. 

Susan is Associate Dean for Immersive Learning and Learning Spaces at the Center for Immersive and simulation Based learning at Stanford, and a long time friend of Simulcast. Her co-authors for this article are Jenny Rudolph, Stephanie Barwick, Sarah Janssens, and Komal Bajaj. 

In the episode we discuss the challenges for ISS: space, time, people, resources, safety; but also the opportunities: exploring work environments and the people in them, and probing systems and processes. The authors recognised the need for patient, systematic engagement with staff across healthcare institutions, and take us through their journeys in three separate ISS programs. They call their implementation approach ‘longitudinal prebriefing’. This great work is a reminder of how we need to play the ‘long game’ as simulation faculty, and to embrace ISS implementation as an organisational change challenge.

166 Simulcast Journal Club March 2023

More interesting work from the healthcare simulation community this month.  

Christensen, M.D., Østergaard, D., Stagelund, S. et al. Embracing multiple stakeholders’ perspectives in defining competent simulation facilitators’ characteristics and educational behaviours: a qualitative study from Denmark, Korea, and Australia. Adv Simul 8, 1 (2023). 

Cassidy, D.J., Jogerst, K., Coe, T. et al. Simulation versus reality: what can interprofessional simulation teach us about team dynamics in the trauma bay?. Global Surg Educ 1, 56 (2022). 

Swerdlow, Barry et al. What is the Best Method to Teach Screen-Based Simulation in Anesthesia Distance Education? Clinical Simulation In Nursing, Volume 74, 49 - 56 

Karen J Dickinson, Wendy L Ward, Robert Minarcin, Christopher Trudeau, Kathryn K Neill . International Journal of Healthcare Simulation: An interprofessional medical malpractice mock trial: event evolution and assessment of efficacy. 10.54531/zxmk6987. Adi Health + Wellness.  

 

Happy listening!