The Sim Cafe~

The Sim Cafe~ An Interview with Dr. Jennifer Calzada and James Archetto

February 27, 2023 Season 3 Episode 21
The Sim Cafe~
The Sim Cafe~ An Interview with Dr. Jennifer Calzada and James Archetto
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In this episode, Jerrod and Deb talk to Dr. Jennifer Calzada about the philanthropic efforts of the society and the various charities that people can donate to. James Archetto from Gaumard talks about what sees in the future and how this conference has been a big event for simulation. 

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Welcome to The Sim Cafe, a podcast produced by the team at Innovative Sim Solutions, edited by Shelly Houser. Join our host, Deb Tauber and co-host Jarrod Jeffries as they sit down with subject matter experts from across the globe to reimagine clinical education and the use of simulation. So pour yourself a cup of relaxation, sit back, tune in, and learn something new from The Sim Cafe.

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Deb:

Welcome to another episode of The Sim Cafe. I'm Deb Tauber. I'm here with my co-host Jarrod Jeffries, and we are live at IMSH. Thank you so much. We have here Jennie Calzada and welcome. And why don't you tell us a little bit more about yourself.

Jennie:

Thank you. So normally I'm the director of simulation at Tulane School of Medicine in New Orleans.

Deb:

Wow.

Jennie:

But in relation to the society, I'm in my third, going into my third year on the board of directors, and I'm also chairing the SSH Fund campaign for 2023, which we just launched on Sunday. So brand new effort. Uh, it's a philanthropic arm of the society the first time we've ever done that. And our goal is to raise$200,000 in 2023 that in 2024 we'll use to fund, um, larger research projects, some tech innovation grants. Uh, we will continue to fund the Beverly Anderson's needs-based scholarship and actually expand that to have more funding, especially for our international attendees. And then also the Chad X Fund, continue his legacy.

Deb:

Thank you for doing that. Thank you for, for your service to the society. Thank you. How many IMHS have you been to?

Jennie:

My first one was in 2009, which actually was in Orlando then, but on Disney property.

Deb:

Oh, wow.

Jennie:

Yeah, it was, it was, it was a lot<laugh>. We far, far outgrown, uh, those type of locations. Yeah. But yeah, I had been in that job for about six weeks when I went to imh, maybe, maybe two months. Didn't even know what IMSH was. I think 90% of what I heard went over my head. But I've definitely made lifelong friends here. And, and honestly, these are the people that really taught me to do my job because I was hired when the sim center was built to Tula and no one knew anything about it. We had nothing. There were no policies, no curriculums, no nothing. And there wasn't really anyone to help me because no one had ever done it before, so.

Deb:

Right. So you're pioneer out there.

Jarrod:

And I also think that all 90%, that's the same for everybody's,

Jennie:

For Pioneer. Yeah. 90% is like, I don't, I, I feel like that's important, but I'm not really sure what I just heard.<laugh>. Yeah.

Deb:

What else would you like our listeners to know?

Jennie:

So talking about the fund, it's important because we really can't make huge strides and changes and advances in this industry each on our own. We really have to do it together. Now, previously the society has funded research, but it's been for early career awards. So, which is great, get people started, but they're capped to$10,000. And while that's a great project, we're not gonna make transformational strides and fill the knowledge gap on simulation and validating it. Uh, especially its connection to patient safety. We really need larger awards for that. We need experienced researchers doing that. And we really need multi-institutional research to do that, to really show that, yes, this, this was not a one-off. This really does work. And that's just not something the society can really fund to that level. If we did, we, we'd have to raise costs and we don't want to do that, cuz that affects everyone across the board equally. So this is, I mean, this is our 24th year. There's a lot of people who've spent their careers in this field. They've really been very successful. And this is their chance to get back and like help push us all forward.

Deb:

So that means next year's gonna be the 25 year anniversary.

Jennie:

I think it's the 24th. I say I could be right. I should know this. I guess I should know this. I think it's the 24th I say. Okay. Yeah.

Deb:

Is there anything you want to ask us or anything else you wanna share? And how would our listeners go ahead and donate to these?

Jennie:

So they can go to SSHfund.org? I will say the website's a little bare bones right now. We've been in a six month sprint to really get us to this point. But we are, and also all the staff, I mean obviously they've been working on IMSH and this is, I mean, it's the largest ever, the most attendance, the most exhibitors, which means it's been the most work to actually pull this off. And that really needed to be their focus. So once this is over and, and they've all had a break, A week off, we'll get back to really putting more of those messages online. Having a much larger web presence where people c an get information. But we've also taken advantage of the fact that, you know, many people are here in person a nd we've been filming, uh, testimonials from board members, other key leaders, but also past recipients of research awards and the needs-based scholarships, talking about the impact that it had for them personally a nd their career. And those are all things, I mean, that's what really helps convince people that, hey, if you can give a hundred dollars, it's worth it because look at this person who's never attended IMSH because their institution couldn't afford it and they were able to come and this had a tremendous impact on their career. I mean, that's, that's doing a lot for someone.

Deb:

All right. Anything else you wanna ask us? Uh, Jarrod, do you have any questions?

Jarrod:

No, this, this is wonderful and I appreciate your perspective. Cause I think that for our listeners to, to gain a glimpse from your side is, is such a rarity and so appreciate you sharing your voice and your experience of what, what all it takes to, to go forward. And also the vision for not only 2023, but 2024.

Jennie:

Yeah. I mean in 2024 we'll be announcing, you know, obviously how much we raised in 2023, you know, and things like this, when you launch they, it probably takes a year to really get going. Some, some people kind of hold off and wanna see like what's gonna happen with this. But especially next year when we are awarding things and we're talking about, you know, what big research projects are getting money tech innovations, that's when people will really get excited cuz then they'll really see the outcomes and like, oh, that's what my money went to. Like, wow, that's great. So that's when people really, so hopefully the momentum goes even even higher next year because the, especially with the scholarships, our hope is to really expand that. And it's, the travel stipend has never changed since those have been given out and it's a thousand dollars. And if you're international in a low resource country, that a thousand dollars isn't even gonna cover your air figure. Right. Which less hotel and all the other costs. Yeah. Right. And when Julie Max worthy and her presidency made the tiered pricing, this now goes along with that mm-hmm.<affirmative>. So we now have tiered pricing for people from those low resource countries. We can also have more opportunities to bring them here in person. Cuz if you've been here, you know, the impact of being here in person isn't highly different than just being a member from afar and mm- hmm.< affirmative> being on a couple webinars and looking on the website.

Jarrod:

Yeah.

Deb:

And I think it's those connections.

Jennie:

It Is.

Deb:

Y es. Y eah. I mean, y ou make those connections a nd you know, like during t he, the pandemic is when I started the podcast a nd m m-hmm.< affirmative> having had been at prior conferences, I had a big post-it, one of those great big post-it notes and I wrote down people I was g onna ask and I reached out t o'em and they said, yes, I'll be on your podcast< laugh>. I was like, really? Y eah.

Jennie:

<laugh> big people were desperate to talk to other people too. But

Deb:

Yeah, I think everyone has a story though. I think that's where it, where it starts is we all have a story mm-hmm.<affirmative> people, we're all humid and Yeah.

Jennie:

But yeah, networking here, I, I've, I always tell people when you come, they're like, they're like, don't pack your schedule with nonstop sessions. I mean, yes, they're great and you will learn a lot, but the networking can be equally important. I mean, there's multiple people that I've met through this who I now collaborate on different projects that we do. And it was sometimes it was just from randomly meeting'em here over the years.

Deb:

D awn,

Jennie:

Dawn, one of them, Dawn, Dawn and I have done multiple projects together. We'll, we'll be at double AMC together later this year, so. Yeah. Yeah.

Deb:

And it Dawn Swiderski we're talking about now.

Jennie:

Actually, both Dawn's I've done a lot with, with, so I, I'd done projects with both of them. Yeah. Dawn Chakin and Dawn Swiderski

Deb:

They're both wonderful. Yeah. Wonderful,

Jennie:

Wonderful, wonderful. Yes. D- squared.

Deb:

Yep. Anything else you want to a dd?

Jennie:

No, I mean that's, you know, that's okay. I've been, my main role here is pushing out the fund and Okay. Getting everybody, uh, being unabashful and in everyone's face about it.

Jarrod:

But you gotta start somewhere.

Jennie:

That's what you gotta do.

Jarrod:

Yeah. Put move one foot in front of the other, so.

Deb:

Yep. All right. Well thank you very much and happy simulating.

Jennie:

All right. Thank you.

Speaker 1:

Thanks to Jennie Cal zadafrom the SSH Board of Directors, who's chairing this year's IMSH philanthropic group. Up next, James Archetto from Gaumar sits down with Deb and Jarrod. Stay tuned. There's more to learn.

Deb:

Welcome to another episode of The Sim Cafe. We're here with Jarrod Jeffries, our co-host. And I'm Deb Tauber. And today we are so fortunate to have James Archetto from Gaumar. Thank you for being here and joining us.

James:

Oh, thanks Deb. It's great to be here. What a terrific conference it's been this week now. We've been just thrilled at the response and the support from IMSH, Terrific week.

Jarrod:

And has Gaumar been performing in the past couple IMHS given the pandemic, or is this kind of back in full force for you guys?

James:

We worked through the pandemic actually, that in 2021. Well, it was completely virtual at that point. And we participated there. And then last year of course we were back in full force working through, and here it seems like everyone came back because they had been away for so long. So it was great to see all of the attendees being here. Yeah.

Jarrod:

Yeah. And you, and you see the, the difference of how, I don't wanna use the word mature, but how much it's grown, uh, from, you know, maybe a conference that might not have been so attended for since, you know,

James:

Where we're, there's no doubt that, uh, the conference has grown and the engagement too of the attendees. Everyone was so engaged and so hungry to learn and to see what's been going on for the past two years, what have my colleagues been up to. And, uh, to see that engagement was really exciting.

Jarrod:

We just had a, I think a Congress member,

James:

Or We did, yes. So we had representatives from, um, local congressional offices and Senator Mark Rubio's office and, uh, Senator Rick Scott's office, and of course, us being based here in Florida, they're very enthusiastic about seeing what we had. So the simulators they saw at our booth were pediatric how, and we talked a lot about engagement and how important it is for an immersive learning experience for the learners, whether they're attending physicians, nurses, or students to be really engaged in that learning. And pediatric how of course cries, real tears, his head moves. And, you know, he asked Where's dad? And I was able to console him a little bit. He stopped crying. Then we moved over to our new advanced hell, our most sophisticated simulator. And we talked a lot about the artificial intelligence that he uses and how we use mixed reality because learners have different needs now than they had years ago.

Jarrod:

Mm-hmm.<affirmative>.

James:

And we learned this through covid. How can we get learners to really understand what's taking place? So we invested heavily in different methodologies and modalities of education and using mixed reality because the tactile component is critical in medical education. At the same time, what can we do? And the Microsoft HoloLens allows them to see what's taking place. And the specific example that we showed was a hemothorax. So we created the clinical condition in the simulator of a hemothorax. We had the Microsoft HoloLens, so the folks from the senators and representatives offices were actually able to see what blood looks like around the lung. And then we had ultrasound so they can see what that looks like as well. And then they actually delivered a baby using Victoria. Go figure. Yeah, exactly. And that's of course our roots in maternal hills.

Jarrod:

And how long have you guys been using the Microsoft Hlolens?

James:

We started, I believe in 2018, and the first one was Victoria with the Microsoft, uh, OBMR We call it OBMR obstetric mr.

Jarrod:

But it, that's the fascinating thing for me is you've seen this, um, technology growth from outside players, which, which of course you partner with in, in really have the sound, but you know, Microsoft, Google, apple, or whatever. Right. They're, they're solid players. They know what they're doing.

James:

Yes, Exactly.

Jarrod:

See that dream broadened the healthcare simulation.

James:

And, and here at the conference we had the global program manager of a Microsoft HoloLens at our exhibit booth. Oh, wow. Looking to see what we're doing, how can we do i t? How can Microsoft help us? Yeah. And you can imagine, you know, in simulation, we're a well r epresented company compared to Microsoft< laugh>, we're rather tiny

Deb:

Help help me help you.

James:

Right, right. And the number of Halo lenses, or even surface pros that we purchase on an annual basement is tiny compared to Best Buy or, or some of their other customers. Yeah. So the fact that the Microsoft program manager recognized what we were doing and was at our exhibit booth was quite powerful for us. So, uh, so this has been a great show in a lot of ways to see, as I mentioned earlier, the engagement of the attendees. This is the first time that we've had congressional representation at one of our conferences. Yeah. They didn't know what we do. And to have them here, we had a private meeting with them earlier and them, for them to come to our exhibit booth and see what we do mm-hmm.<affirmative> with simulators made right here in Florida. Was really powerful. Extremely s pecial. Yeah. Really powerful.

Deb:

<affirmative>. And I've been to the home base. I was actually there m m-hmm.< affirmative>. And I can tell you that my first delivery was on a G amar s imulator mm-hmm.<affirmative>. And, uh, it was a, a real highlight of my career m m-hmm.< affirmative> when I was able to deliver a b aby i n the simulation center.

James:

I love that. And, uh, they were, uh, the congressional representatives were stunned at how realistic it is, but it has to be that realistic. It can't be pushing a dollar through a box anymore. It's a mom who's saying, the baby's coming, and the baby comes and the baby comes and it's crying. I mean, this is pretty realistic. And she had to feel the cervix dilating, and then she grabbed the baby and she delivered the placenta. So was that level of realism, which of course they've never experienced before. Yeah. So, uh, so this has been a, a really good show for us and we're thrilled to be part of SSH and to be here at this conference.

Jarrod:

And we appreciate the support for everything you're doing here.

James:

Thank you.

Jarrod:

And so, as we've unpacked a lot here with technology bedding and going through your height, these patient simulation is, where do you see the future of simulation going in the next three, five years?

James:

You know, we, we talk a lot about technology and certainly we embrace technology mm-hmm.<affirmative>, but the technology is the means of the outcome. Mm-hmm.<affirmative>, the outcome for us always is ensuring competency for the next generation of learners. That's the goal. The question is how do you get there during Covid? How are we gonna get there when people can't touch our simulators? People are learning, as I mentioned earlier, with headsets, with virtual reality, with games. How are we going to make someone a more competent midwife? And how can we use technology to get to that point? How can we make someone, how can we allow someone to be a more confident cardiologist with a, with simulation, how can we help a nurse with basic patient care? Let's look at the demographics of the us. Um, the US now ranks 37th in maternal and neonatal birth. It's terrible. We can do better than that. That how can we as a supplier help. We have an aging population. When we look at how population ages, now we have physical and mental challenges. Mm-hmm.<affirmative>, how can we help? We look at cardiovascular disease, how can we assist with that? So those are the things that we look at. So it's technology towards an end, which is competency and care. And as long as we keep that in mind, everything else is just used to get there. Yeah. And ensuring that these learners and these new medical students, nursing students, midwives, and even attendings, you know, nurses who have been in practice 20 years, things are changing. You know, we have a diverse American population. How are we gonna address that? We need to be reflective of that with the product that we provide. So we look at a lot, how is the industry changing? Certainly we'll use technology, but as I mentioned, we look at technology as a means to an end in competency.

Jarrod:

And that's great that, you know, Gaumar being one of the driving forces and that that is the focus instead of the opposite.

James:

Right. Right. Technology just is a way to get there.

Deb:

Is there anything you wanna ask us?

James:

We're thrilled with what SSH has done. So the conference this year, and we had someone who was new with our company at our exhibits for the first time, and that person asked, Hey, how does this compare? You've been here a lot of years, how does this compare? And this is the best one we've been to. The conference keeps advancing the society, keeps doing, keeps progressing. Little things that you don't think of. We go to plenty of conferences. there are many conferences that have lunch for the attendees, but not for the exhibitors. Right. Okay. Well, you know, exhibitors are here and invest heavily c ertainly in this conference. So it's just really nice to have water and lunch and coffee. And here in the exhibit hall, number one, it draws people in. Y eah. Which is what we need. But number two, we get hungry and thirsty too. So it's nice to be included in that and that the society i s inclusive of that. As I mentioned e arlier, it was great to have congressional representation here to really understand that it's well understood that a irplane, airplane pilots need to have simulation before they fly a commercial airliner. M m-hmm.< affirmative>, it should be that way in simulation too, as representatives of us of taxpayers and constituents, you need to be spending on simulation and education is always the first thing to get cut. Y eah. Y eah. And h ow could education help patients in the U S if an airliner crashes? We all hear about it. We don't h ear about all those patients that have died because it's one here and one there R ight. Over time. But we know the impact of simulation. on patient care. So that needs to be invested in as well. And it can't be cut from budgets.

Deb:

Thank you. And thank for, thank you for everything you guys are doing at Gaumar.

James:

My pleasure, Deb. Thanks for you and Jarrod and, and what the society has done for us. We appreciate that. It's a great partnership.

Deb:

Thank you. You're welcome. Happy simulating

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