Anyone involved with clinical simulation operations knows that leadership is often a required skill trait. From managing team members to designing operational processes, or from managing equipment manifests to creating technology policies, those operating healthcare simulation programs are required to act with leadership in a multitude of ways. As every medical simulation professional exists within [...]

Healthcare Simulation course design is a complex process and requires the input of a diverse team and a variety of resources to produce high-quality learning experiences. While it is the responsibility of the clinical simulation educator to design and develop simulation course content in a medical simulation program, the healthcare simulation technology specialist (HSTS) plays [...]

Running audiovisual (A/V) debriefing systems in healthcare simulation is no easy task! From designing rooms and identifying equipment needs to selecting consulting firms and hardware integrators, and from installation to testing, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting — the margin for error is high all through the technical process. That being said, the benefits of overcoming these [...]

The COVID-19 global pandemic has shut down thousands of clinical education programs around the world, including countless healthcare simulation facilities. Lou Clark, PhD, MFA Executive Director of the M Simulation Program at the University of Minnesota recently shared with us their team’s “Flexible Operations Plan in the COVID-19 Response” which is an extremely useful document [...]