Yesterday in Tampa Florida, the 2021 SimOps event opened at the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) with over 100 in-person attendees and more participating virtually from around the world. Organized by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), this year’s theme was to “Unify” the community following the [...]

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 [...]