By Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) “But its not like real life… I mean, you can’t tell from the manikin what the patient really looks like…..” That’s not a real quote, but rather a synthesis of hundreds […]
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Category: Simulation
Healthcare simulation – staying up to date with the ‘latest’
By Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) The translation of new knowledge to clinical practice has a significant time lag, in part due to the challenge of clinicians keeping up to date with the huge amount of clinical […]
Simulation and Patient Safety – a complex relationship?
By Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) Simulation enthusiasts cite patient safety as a key rationale for simulation based education, but few recognize or articulate the potential for simulation to cause harm – to participants, and even to […]
Story telling and Simulation: What are you really saying?
By Ben Symon (@symon_ben) Let me start with a story. “My son was born prematurely in a country that was not my own, and for the first month of his life I visited him once a […]
A simulation debrief….. without the simulation?
By Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) I’ve been an avid proponent of in situ simulation – done in the actual clinical environment – for improving team and systems performance. The teams, the equipment, and the communication processes […]
