Join us as Dr. Pierre Barker, recognized expert in healthcare quality, provides vital insights into the current landscape of patient safety as seen through his own personal narrative. In 1999, The US Institute of Medicine report “To Err is Huma...

Two renowned leaders in healthcare education joined us at this year’s International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH). They are Dr. Janice Palaganas and Dr. David Rodgers. Listen as we hear their perspectives on two trending topics. Dr...

Join us as Dr. Nalini Singhal shares highlights of her lifelong journey in revolutionizing neonatal care. A renowned neonatologist and co-developer of the Helping Babies Survive programs, Dr. Singhal's work has trained over a million healthcare...

This year's annual European Resuscitation Council conference brought a new and potentially very impactful collaboration: The ERC and the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations). Football, or Soccer, is the world's largest sport, both in ...

Hear Dr. Barry Isenberg, President-elect of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), share how the next stage in the growing importance of patient simulation will be about equating the benefits of simulation to bona fide clinical results...

A “learning organization” is characterized by the value it places on curiosity. Learning organizations pursue an abundance mindset looking at problems as opportunities. In this way their curiosity fosters experimentation, vision, a commitment t...

Across healthcare, assessing competency has become a major concern. And it is an awesome responsibility. Schools of nursing and schools of medicine want to ensure that their graduates are prepared to care for patients. Hospitals and other insti...

Competency is at the forefront of everyone’s mind in healthcare. There is barely a hospital, school of nursing, or school of medicine that is not concerned with whether their practitioners and/or soon-to-be graduates are suitably competent to d...

If you attended this year’s meeting, the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM), you know that this year’s conference focused on some pivotal shifts in how key experts are looking at patient simulation. If you didn’t atten...

If you are leading patient simulation efforts in hospitals, are you pursuing an education paradigm or are you pursuing what hospitals seek—a performance improvement paradigm? Education speaks a uniquely different “language” from the world of ho...

For those in Hospitals who led simulation-based training, the COVID pandemic posed a continually changing array of training priorities. Those priorities began with donning and doffing PPE but quickly evolved to managing patients in isolation, d...

An estimated 295,000 women worldwide die annually due to childbirth. And there are concerning trends in areas like the United States where maternal mortality rates are on the rise. Care under the supervision of a midwife has often been associat...

The Helsinki Stroke Model confirmed that stroke patient outcomes can be improved through rapid diagnosis, treatment, and efficient transfer of patients to stroke specialists. Lives have been saved through this model and a resulting sense of esp...

Healthcare institutions are now using simulation to improve systemwide performance. Learn from Victoria Brazil, MD, an emergency physician and educator at Gold Coast Health Service, Australia, how simulation can foster system-wide improvement g...

Finding the time to conduct clinical simulation in a hospital setting is a universal challenge. Listen to May Sissel Vadla, MD, a PhD fellow at the University of Stavanger, Norway, share how she helped take a birthing unit at a little-known hos...

Immediate Kangaroo Mother Care is a lifeline for newborns, especially for ill or premature babies. Yet it is often omitted in newborn protocol. Listen to Siren Rettedal, MD, a neonatologist Stavanger University Hospital, talk about how Kangaroo...

Simulation-based training works. But what fundamentals in simulation make simulation effective. In this podcast, Ross Scalese, MD, a Professor of Medicine and Director at the Gordon Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, shares ...

The Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) is a standard for assessing student performance in healthcare, but some have questioned its relevance. Listen to Ronald M. Harden, MD, OBE, often called “father of the OSCE,” as he addresses the que...