Abstract:
The healthcare simulation community has effectively responded to calls for a more direct contribution to healthcare quality and safety and clearer alignment with health service priorities. The term ‘translational simulation’ was proposed in 2017 to describe “how medical simulation may be connected directly with health service priorities and patient outcomes, through interventional and diagnostic functions”. Six years later, translational simulation has been applied in diverse contexts: to prepare health services for the COVID-19 pandemic, for hospital relocation and physical space testing, for clinical pathway/ process testing, and for shaping culture and teamwork in healthcare settings, and for supporting healthcare improvement.
This illuminates a shift in focus for some healthcare simulation practice, toward more directly targeting quality improvement and healthcare systems. But how can these new objectives be achieved? How should we think about this emerging purpose for healthcare simulation? Do we need to adjust our simulation processes (design, delivery, debriefing) to achieve those aims? What faculty development do we need?
These questions are explored in this CE webinar, drawing on the recent publication from Brazil, V., Reedy, G. Translational simulation revisited: an evolving conceptual model for the contribution of simulation to healthcare quality and safety. Adv Simul 9, 16 (2024).
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the concept of translational simulation as applied to healthcare.
- List healthcare simulation applications that directly focus on healthcare quality and safety.
- Reflect on clinical simulation design and delivery approaches that may need to be modified for translational simulation purpose.