Amy Lannen, Simulation Center Operations Specialist at the Medical Education Simulation Center at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville was recently featured in the video shared below where she spoke on the artistic work of creating more realistic patient presentations in medical simulation through the use of moulage. As we all know, moulage is the art of [...]

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The term Prebriefing is found extensively in healthcare simulation literature as a component of high fidelity simulation debriefing but its exact meaning varies. The Healthcare Simulation Dictionary from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare suggests three different definitions for the term “Pre briefing” along with another two definitions under the term “Brief (Briefing)” and yet [...]

Healthcare Simulation Debriefing is a period of time following an experiential learning activity during which learners/teams reflect, review and discuss the activity with the goal of improving individual and team clinical skills and judgement. Here we take a deeper look at the simulation debriefing process and provide a handful of examples from the many debriefing [...]