This week, HealthySimulation.com’s new healthcare simulation expert interview series “Simterviews” speaks with Dr. David Grant. He is the simulation and interprofessional learning lead and colead of the WOW Helical Theme at the University of Bristol Medical School. Grant is also the director of the postgraduate certificate in healthcare improvement program and co-director of the masters [...]

The Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER) began using Simulation Information Management Systems (SIMS) to assist with day-to-day operations management in 2002. Four years later, SIMS 2.0 was revealed, expanding the scope of support provided by this web-based system to include scheduling, curricula delivery and reporting to clinical simulation programs throughout the world. [...]

TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based set of teamwork tools designed to optimize patient outcomes through the improvement of communication and teamwork skills among healthcare simulation professionals. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the U.S. Department of Defense developed TeamSTEPPS in the mid-2000s with healthcare organizations in mind. Today, TeamSTEPPS offers a 2.5-day train-the-trainer [...]

Medical simulation best-practices from 8 years of the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) Accredited Education Institutes (AEI) are now available for the global clinical simulation community thanks to the new Elsevier published article “Overarching themes from ACS-AEI accreditation survey best practices 2011–2019” (Cooke et al.). Here today, Dr. James Cooke, MD, Executive Director of the [...]