In order to conform to cultural norms and/or hierarchies, healthcare professionals and learners may make clinical decisions which they know to be incorrect or for which they have insufficient knowledge to determine a safe intervention. A recent article titled, “Twelve tips for using simulation to teach about conformity behaviors in medical education,” by Ghazwan Altabbaa, [...]

Dr. Victoria Brazil, director of the Bond Translational Simulation Collaborative and professor of emergency medicine at Bond University, is a leading voice in the transition of healthcare simulation from simply an educational strategy to a tool for improving healthcare systems and outcomes. Dr. Brazil says healthcare simulation is more than a method to improve individual [...]

The International Pediatric Simulation Society (IPSS) promotes and supports multi-disciplinary simulation-based education in caring for infants and children. Although focused on pediatrics, the 2021 IPSS Virtual Symposium focused on two general healthcare simulation topics which relate to all age groups. The symposium explored the use of healthcare simulation through the lens of Safety II to [...]

As we look forward to a loosening of COVID-19 restrictions, we should also review how the healthcare system and, in particular, simulation programs responded to the pandemic. During the 2021 IMSH conference, Ian Doten, Daniel Robinson, Christina Mason, Michelle Walters and Benjamin Wilson from Swedish Health Services (SHS) in Seattle, Washington, shared how their healthcare [...]