By: Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) Imagine your health service is about to spend millions (if not billions) of dollars on a new hospital. Effective physical design and streamlined workflows will be essential for a new facility where […]
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Category: Simulation
Creating an Inclusive Simulation Lab: It’s Time to Stop Calling Them Confederates
By: Carl Preiksaitis (@CMPreik) I am in the simulation lab reviewing basic emergency medicine cases with a group of medical students. I have taken the usual pains with my pre-briefing to create a psychologically safe […]
Wearing Hats and Blending Boundaries as a Simulation Educator
By: Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) As a simulation practitioner, what ‘hat’ do you wear? Clinician? Educator? And are these identities in conflict or are they blended? These questions are central to Will Dace’s new model for how […]
Sociological Fidelity in Healthcare Simulation
By: Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) Discussions about the ‘fidelity’ of simulation often focus on the physical realism of mannikins or other training equipment. Another interpretation of the term is ‘functional task alignment’, describing the authenticity of clinical […]
Simple Tech for Simulation Scenario Delivery
By: Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) Healthcare simulation has a reputation for being complex and technical, but there are ways to simplify scenario delivery. Simplicity is especially useful for those of us running simulations in situ (in the […]