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The following questions were designed to help us understand how to better support your healthcare simulation education practice. Please take a moment to share your thoughts. Thank you in advance for your valuable time. We know the survey is long (mostly yes/no questions), but your responses are EXTREMELY valuable to improving simulation education across McMaster's ecosphere!
THE PROBLEM:
The Centre for Simulation-Based Learning (CSBL) in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at McMaster University is seeking to refresh how it engages with healthcare simulation education, academics and enthusiasts throughout Southern Ontario and beyond.
Within the McMaster's FHS and its affiliated Healthcare Partners, the CSBL is a key hub of high quality healthcare simulation. The CSBL is an accredited 10,000 square foot centre that provides theatre-based simulations, procedural skills training and standardized patient encounters for learners attending the wide variety of healthcare schools and programs within McMaster University's FHS. However, the CSBL is far from the only site conducting healthcare simulation amongst McMaster University's FHS and it's affiliated Healthcare Partners. Throughout this McMaster FHS "ecosphere", excellent healthcare simulation occurs regularly within educational programs, partner hospitals and clinic spaces that undoubtedly improves the care that individuals, teams, systems deliver to patients and families.
As you all know, simulation is a resource intensive educational method that can be challenging to sustain. Contrary to popular belief, we believe that it is NOT maintaining mannequins/equipment that are the main issue, but rather supporting the people behind simulation. In the past, the CSBL has attempted to engage with simulationists through separate meetings/rounds focused on healthcare simulation scholarship (Insight U) and community of practice (Distributed Sites Meeting). Unfortunately, these rounds have been poorly attended.
A SOLUTION:
To build a stronger community of practice of simulationists within the McMaster Ecosphere, the CSBL is re-imaging it's engagement strategy. One of several strategies the CSBL is hoping to implement is a new, regularly-offered and high-yield healthcare simulation rounds focused on the needs and interests of its target audience (YOU!).
The objectives of these Insight U Refreshed Rounds are as follows:
1. Disseminating useful knowledge that helps build capacity and healthy sustainability of simulation programs at community hospitals/individual programs
2. Collaboration in learning and building excellence in simulation practice around 5 pillars:
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Education design
- Assessment
- Patient safety
- Innovation and research
3. Building and supporting a culture of Equity, Diversity, Inclusiveness and Indigenous Reconciliation (EDIIR) in simulation practice.
4. Breaking down silos of institution, size, profession and specialty. Anyone interested in healthcare simulation is welcome to join regardless of institution, speciality, experience..
The core values of these rounds are to be: curious, practical, collaborative, responsive, inclusive, high-quality and free of hierarchy.
