Eight nursing students packed themselves into a sparsely appointed recreational vehicle Tuesday afternoon in the shadow of Avera St. Mary’s Hospital. They were a collection of traditional and nontraditional students from all over central South Dakota. And each one of them was preparing for a chance to work hands-on with a patient recovering from a […]

Fifty emergency situations played out at Fanshawe College Saturday. It was all part of its annual Trauma and Treatment weekend, an inter-professional simulation event involving 300 participants from the paramedic, nursing, emergency telecommunications and other programs. More than 50 police officers, fire and paramedic volunteered for the day. (Source: CTV News London)

With the help of The Michener Institute’s state-of-the-art simulation facilities, researchers at University Health Network (UHN) are looking into the effectiveness of simulation training to help practitioners identify and manage errors that occur in clinical practice. (Source: Michener Institute)

St. Clair College Thames Campus is thrilled to announce that it has received two new Simulation (SIM) mannequins to enhance training for students in the Nursing and Practical Nursing programs. The total value of the equipment is $45,000. (Source: St. Clair College)

The province showed off a new mobile simulator today that will help train emergency workers in small and rural communities. The Emergency Health Services Mobile Simulation is the first and so far only vehicle in Atlantic Canada that will act as a mobile training platform for health professionals across the province. (Source: The Signal)

McGill University announced on Wednesday a new name and vision that will position the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning at the forefront of simulated training in the health sciences. Thanks to a $7.5 million gift from Arnold and Blema Steinberg, the Centre will be expanding its facilities, enhancing its technologies and broadening its […]

Eleven years after the release of an eye-popping study showing 185,000 Canadian patients suffer unintended harm while in hospital, a followup http://linkis.com/ihpme.utoronto.ca/20/EhQ8G” target=”_blank”>report reveals progress on improving patient safety has been slow. (Source: Toronto Star)

Queen’s University will be the first institution in Canada to adopt competency-based training for all its medical residents, education that emphasizes the skills residents gain rather than the time they spend doing hospital rotations. (Source: The Globe and Mail)

Medical student Ludwika Wodyk fumbles her way slowly down the stairs, her movements encumbered by heavy strapping around her limbs and body, her vision distorted by special goggles. She is one of a group of medical students in Poland being given the chance to experience first-hand how it can feel to be an ageing patient. […]

Ori Rotstein, surgeon-in-chief at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, didn’t know Ryerson University’s dean of engineering when he took the seat beside him at an award announcement five years ago. Before the event ended, the pair had struck an alliance, figuring there must be ways the school and hospital, located on each other’s doorsteps, could work […]

The heart in front of Dr. Glen Van Arsdell was a lifeless, white blob, hardly bigger than a tennis ball. It belonged to a 16-day-old infant. The baby had a double outlet right ventricle — a serious heart defect where both arteries arise from the right ventricle. (Source: Toronto Star)

What can you contribute to SimEd? Based in Australia, SimEd aims to provide high-quality resources for clinicians, educators, students, technicians and simulated patients who are engaged in simulation-based education and training. Submit: Reviews of equipment/apps/technology Moulage (tips, how to guides and photo examples) How to align learning objectives with simulation Scenarios/scenario writing Tips on running […]

In 2014, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) convened an expert panel to evaluate the results from the https://www.ncsbn.org/JNR_Simulation_Supplement.pdf” target=”_blank”>largest, comprehensive study to date on the use of simulation in lieu of traditional clinical experience, examine previous research, and review the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) Standards of […]

The best simulations don’t happen in isolation – there are activities beforehand and afterwards to ensure knowledge is understood, set expectations, model expert behaviour, and encourage reflection and integration of new learning. Here are some easy-to-use, free, web-based tools to enhance some pre- or post-sim activities. These ideas and reviews of apps are courtesy of […]

Call for chapters: “Health Professionals’ Education in the Age of Clinical Information Systems, Mobile Computing and Social Networks” We are pleased to announce the CFP for the forthcoming edited book entitled “Health Professionals’ Education in the Age of Clinical Information Systems, Mobile Computing and Social Networks”. Deadline has been extended to Tuesday, March 1, 2016. […]

McKeil School of Business (Mohawk College) professor Lisa Cuncic-Pegg has been awarded funding from the Applied Research and Innovation in Education (ARIE) fund to investigate how to integrate case-simulation and case-scenario teaching in Ontario Graduate Certificate programs. (Source: Mohawk College)

The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) officials have opened a new medical simulation training center in Queens, to help doctors and nurses practice medical emergencies and real life-saving procedures that improve safety and the patient experience. The new $750,000 simulation center features high-fidelity patient manikins and spaces that replicate operating rooms, intensive […]

To help optimize the limited time they have to evaluate and stabilize trauma patients, trauma surgeons have developed a simulation training program that saves time for evaluation and gets trauma patients to medical imaging tests faster. The report was presented at the 2015 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons. (Source: Science Daily)

The Centre for Interprofessional Clinical Simulation Learning in Victoria welcomes a new life-like mannequin that can breathe, talk, cough and moan; providing future doctors, nurses and midwives an opportunity to work together on medical scenarios they are likely to find when treating patients. The $2.9 million centre will be working in partnership with Island Health, […]

The shift from time-based to competency-based curricula for health care professionals is widely underway. Watch this video. The shift from time-based to competency-based curricula for health care professionals is widely underway. With this comes the challenge of assessing the developing competencies of health care students as they gain experience and expertise. This video, from Dr. Farhan Banji of McGill University, published by […]

Ontario college integrating more simulation and homecare training into PSW curriculum http://www.conestogac.on.ca/” target=”_blank”>Conestoga College has redesigned its entire personal support worker (PSW) program curriculum to include more simulation training. The revamped curriculum includes a special emphasis on caring for seniors in the homecare setting. Addressing a demographic shift The move towards the new curricula is […]

The University of Toronto’s Division of Orthopaedic Surgery’s move towards competency-based education The http://orthopaedics.utoronto.ca/” target=”_blank”>University of Toronto’s Division of Orthopaedic Surgery is using simulation and competency-based education to produce more competent surgeons in less time. http://www.sim-one.ca/aboutsimone/faqs” target=”_blank”>Simulation is an essential component of the Division’s novel competency-based education (CBE) model. CBE emphasizes regular assessments to determine […]

Sarnia’s Lambton College has much to be excited about, with recent joint funding from the Governments of Canada and Ontario for a new Centre for Health Education & Sustainable Care (CHESC). The facility will bring Lambton College into the forefront of health professions education. CHESC will unite faculty, students, and researchers in multi-functional laboratories, collaborative […]

RCPSC-accredited SIM programs are recognized as leaders in the field ​​ Photo: The Allan Waters Family Simulation Centre team with the accreditation certificate The Allan Waters Family Simulation Centre at St. Michael’s Hospital was recently granted five-year accreditation status by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC). http://www.royalcollege.ca/portal/page/portal/rc/members/cpd/cpd_provide… target=”_blank”>RCPSC-accredited simulation programs are […]