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Transforming Healthcare: The Role of Faculty Development and Global Simulation Training
Ever wondered how speaking a common educational language can transform healthcare outcomes? Join us with Dr. Adam Cheng and Dr. Vincent Grant as we unravel the intricacies of faculty development in healthcare simulation. We promise you'll gain insights into the importance of educators mastering the latest concepts and frameworks to ensure top-notch simulation training. Dr. Cheng and Dr. Grant share their experiences founding the Debriefing Academy, a pivotal initiative aimed at refining facilitation and communication skills among simulation educators. This episode highlights the pressing need for continuous faculty development to elevate healthcare programs and ultimately enhance patient care.
Facing the challenges of faculty development head-on, we explore how the Debriefing Academy is making strides to overcome the traditional barriers of conference-centric learning. Discover the motivation behind their innovative resources, like the Master Debriefer course, designed to empower educators to implement meaningful change in their simulation programs. By offering comprehensive learning opportunities outside conventional settings, these initiatives foster a shared mental model among educators, promoting a unified and advanced approach to simulation education. Listen to heartening stories of educators who have transformed their professional practices by applying the course teachings, proving the real-world impact of these development programs.
Experience the global expansion of simulation training as we delve into initiatives like the Academy Archive and its subscription-based service offering worldwide access to professional development. Dr. Cheng and Dr. Grant explain how the virtual courses, enriched by diverse international perspectives, are tailored to meet varied educational needs. With a focus on accessibility and affordability, these programs provide a flexible learning environment with interactive exercises and small group discussions. We discuss how this pioneering platform accommodates different roles within simulation centers, from operations to leadership, by offering modules on essential topics led by renowned experts. Tune in to learn how these initiatives are reshaping the landscape of healthcare simulation education around the globe.
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Deb Tauber:Welcome to another episode of The Sim Cafe, and today we are so fortunate we're going to have Feroo z, who's going to be co-hosting today. So thanks, Ferooz. And we have Dr Adam Cheng and Dr Vincent Grant who are going to be enlightening us today about the Debriefing Academy and all things simulation. So thank you and welcome.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:Thank you, Deb, and I'm so glad to be a part of this podcast episode this time and happy to talk to two of my great friends that I have known them for a long time. So, Dr Cheng and as well as Dr Grant, so welcome both of you to this podcast and, if you don't mind, adam, start with you for those of our listeners that they don't know you, if you can introduce yourself.
Adam Cheng:Yeah, thanks, Ferooz, and thanks for having us on the podcast today. My name is Adam Cheng. I'm a pediatric emergency physician, as well as a simulation educator and researcher. My interests lie in cardiac arrest, resuscitation, debriefing, simulation, education and, more recently, immersive technology and the use of augmented reality and trying to improve outcomes from cardiac arrest, and so, yeah, I'm super excited to be here. I look forward to chatting about faculty development and debriefing, and you know how we can work together to deliver optimal training opportunities for our simulation educators.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:Fantastic. Thank you, Dr Chang.
Vincent Grant:Well, let's just let's dispense with those formalities for us. Thank you, can call me Vince, please. So my name is Vince Grant.
Vincent Grant:I am an emergency physician who works out of Calgary, alberta, canada, and I've had I had the great opportunity to meet up with Adam 15 plus years ago, you know with common interest in a lot of the things that we work on in terms of education, faculty development, particularly around simulation. So and I mean all this has stemmed from those kind of fruitful years of working together. So my interests lie in professional development for health educators, a lot of work around simulation and debriefing facilitation skills. I also do a little bit of work in feedback as well as some mentoring work. So those are kind of my key interest areas. So this work that Adam and I have created has really spawned out of that mutual interest. And you know how do we create better facilitators, I mean for simulation in the context we're talking today, but even in general, just better communicators, and so you know, a lot of this work kind of stems from that. So happy to be here, thanks for having us, and look forward to the conversation.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:Thank you very much. So I think many of our audience may have heard of Debriefing Academy that's. I think that's where you a lot of people know you guys through that work as well, and I think, for those of the audience that they don't know, the Briefing Academies and Online Academy that offers a lot of faculty developments. I think we're going to focus a lot of our questions and talk around faculty development today and we can get to know more about your work that you have done, and so, Deb, you have your first question for them.
Deb Tauber:Sure. So why do you and this one, Adam, this one's for you why do you feel that faculty development is important?
Adam Cheng:Yeah, as we all know I think you know we're immersed in this rapidly evolving field of healthcare simulation, and if I just think back to 15, 20 years ago, things have changed a lot over that period of time, not just in terms of the technology, but also in the way that we think about core concepts of learning and how we train our educators, and so, because there are new concepts emerging, it's particularly important that educators within simulation programs speak the same language. They're familiar with the same concepts and familiar with the same frameworks. They're trying to apply these same things to deliver the highest quality education possible, and hospitals, who are investing their resources to deliver simulation, they're trying to get the most out of their programs and they're trying to maximize learning and optimize outcomes, and one of the most efficient ways of doing that is to ensure that your educators are highly trained, and so it's imperative, in my opinion, that simulation programs offer longitudinal faculty development opportunities for the educators.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:That's great. Well, speaking of those training, what are the main challenges right now that are encountered by these simulation programs that they're trying to offer faculty?
Vincent Grant:Well, I think there's a couple things there I think you know. The first is access. I think Adam kind of talked about it a bit there. You know, if you're waiting for one of the main simulation conferences to occur in North America or around the world, you're waiting a long time to start to get at some of the opportunities to learn faculty development. So then you're stuck really looking out there for either courses or programs that exist or a lot of programs decide. Well, maybe this is something we can do ourselves and start to figure out what their capacity is to teach those facilitation skills. And you know, adam and I have been at this for 20 years and we've made a lot of mistakes and we've built some programs where kind of faculty development, professional development, was at its core, and so a big part of that is how do we make this more accessible? And I think, as we unravel kind of some of the things we're going to talk about in this, in this podcast, we'll get at how we think we've tried to fill the gap in terms of that ability to get education to those that need it.
Vincent Grant:I think Adam said it really well it's an evolving field and when we both learned how to do debriefing.
Vincent Grant:You know there was really not a lot of options out there and we learned one method or one technique, and what we learned over time was there were many different contexts that those methods or techniques didn't fit into, and and our journey here has been really to discover new ways of facilitating, new tools to use, bringing ways of facilitating new tools to use, bringing ideas in from other areas the business management, like negotiation skills, family therapy and other kind of areas of psychology, like there's so many different things that we've kind of brought into our thinking, and really our goal with the Debriefing Academy is like to share those with everyone so that we can elevate everyone out there that's doing facilitation, and then for programs, as you kind of go back to that, I think the big thing is let us be a part of the solution that you have to the problem that you've identified, which is the development of new simulation facilitators, but then the ongoing professional development of those same facilitators, and so I think that's one of the biggest driving factors towards why we've created this.
Vincent Grant:I think it's just that accessibility making it cutting edge, and we've been lucky to grow a group of educators that are, you know, internationally known in their field. They're the ones doing the cutting edge publishing, whether it's research or just even as they think about the. You know the areas that they're sharing and we've been able to get all those folks you know to be part of this family and I think it really makes it a rich resource for anyone out there looking for this kind of education.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:Yeah, thank you. I think my next question would have been what is the motivation behind the Debriefing Academy that was born out of these needs? Uh, so you already answered. So you know you wanted to make it accessible to people and make it for people to not wait a year to go to a conference to be able to attend some latest and greatest of these. You know, research that is done, but so I think that's that's what you guys are doing.
Adam Cheng:So, um, yeah, yeah, through, if I cruise, if I can just add to that.
Adam Cheng:I think you know one of the challenges, I think, is that one of the primary modes of access to faculty development is conferences and, as we all know, when you attend conferences what you're doing is you're obtaining content in a very piecemeal manner, and so you get a little bit of information about one topic here and then you get a little bit of information about one topic here and then you get a little bit of information about one topic here.
Adam Cheng:So that's one challenge, because then your faculty learn at the same time and learn the same concepts so that they can then bring it back to your program and work together to implement changes. If you only have one or two folks attending one conference on standardized, one workshop on standardized patients and they have two others attending another workshop on augmented reality and then another person attending a workshop on patient safety, like it's hard to get all five of those folks together to work seamlessly to advance all three of those areas because they didn't receive all the same content right. And so what we're trying to do is we're trying to create what we believe is an opportunity and a place for educators to come, learn together, but also learn all the same content and then gather back together to reflect on that content so that they can make changes within their programs that are going to be truly lasting and impactful.
Deb Tauber:What I hear you describing is essentially a shared mental model, and as you create this shared mental model, you can really move your organization much quicker through all the different stages of learning.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:Yeah, that's great. I mean. So I, Adam, maybe just you can answer this question. Is so, if you can describe, like what the master debriefing course, that uh debriefing academy, offers, what this entails like, can you just describe for those never taking this course, and what is it different from other courses that are offered?
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:just to let you know I just recently took a course uh, a facilitator course at the lionsgate Hospital here in BC, British Columbia and all of the contents was coming from you guys. So, like they were referring to debriefing academy, to pearl term and all of those things, so you guys inspired a lot of, and a lot of those people that are teaching now took your course and and they're all now debriefers. So I wanted to know what the original course would look like, and that is what you are now becoming familiar with.
Adam Cheng:Yeah. So through the Debriefing Academy, you have the opportunity to access courses, to support, to adjust the needs of simulation educators, and so one of the main courses that we offer it's called the Master Debriefer course, and this is a course that's delivered either in person or can be delivered virtually over Zoom. We offer it four times a year over Zoom, and this course was really designed to be the go-to course for both novices as well as expert debriefers, to come to reinforce some of the foundational principles of debriefing, but also to learn more advanced techniques to be able to optimize their skills and to expand their debriefing toolbox. And so when you come and take this course, you're going to get to learn from faculty who have published some of the Sentinel papers in debriefing.
Adam Cheng:I think that's one of the key strengths of this course is you get to learn from thought leaders from all around the world. We have faculty from North America, from Europe, from Australia, from Asia, and we're really pulling from their collective expertise to be able to offer a very broad and diverse picture of debriefing which is not centered just around one specific model or one specific strategy. What we're trying to do is we're trying to train debriefers who are dynamic, who are flexible, who have the ability to be adaptive and modify and adjust their debriefing strategies and techniques to the specific context that they're teaching in. And I think that's what really sets this course apart from some of the other courses that are out there is that we're trying to promote flexibility and adaptability and in doing so, we want to be able to offer varying, different viewpoints from different schools of thought from all around the world. Vince, maybe I missed a couple of things. Do you have anything to add to that?
Vincent Grant:No, I would say.
Vincent Grant:I think the key there is just that the toolbox.
Vincent Grant:I think Adam referred to it and I think what we want people to leave is just to understand that there are so many different contexts for when you might use an approach or a tool or, you know, in the situations they're dynamic, they change, and so what happens is a lot of people learn one technique and then they feel stuck because the technique just doesn't apply to certain situations.
Vincent Grant:And so, as we put this course together the Master Debriefer course, it was really around what are all the tools that we need someone to learn so they can manage everything, from even setting expectations and creating what feels like a psychologically safe environment for the learners to be able to reflect and share, but all the way through to tools that you can use when you're faced with difficult emotion or a difficult debriefing situation and like everything in between, whether you have a co-facilitator where you're trying to be more learner-centered, and so each of these is built to help to just create more of a toolbox that's just filled with these tools. And, as Adam said, and I think that's the key point is how to make people more adaptive, so they're just not always thinking the same technique. They almost approach it like a blank slate and then the learners help them take it in a direction. But they are prepared to handle that situation, no matter where it comes.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:So, basically, it's a very customizable course as well for the needs of the people that are taking this. That's fantastic. Good to know all of this. And how long is the course, by the way, just like when they are taking it virtually or in person?
Vincent Grant:th duratio o the virtual online course currently sits at seven weekly episodes that last two and a half hours each, very interactive like. It's this combination of a little bit of you know, a didactic little framework just to kind of you know, frame the situation up or frame the theme up, and then a lot of small group exercise, a lot of role play, trying it out, giving each other feedback and just really learning through doing so. One of the things I love about it is how interactive and engaging the course is and, to be honest, with you teaching it, it seems like at first blush you're like seven weeks, man. That seems like a lot, but I'll tell you we're doing a course right now. It's flying by and the level of engagement with learners is what really it fills my bucket. So I actually love teaching the content because everyone's excited and they're all learning together.
Vincent Grant:Now, that's the online version. There is an in-person version as well, which typically lasts three days. We try to be flexible with groups. If we get invited to, let's say, give a course for certain groups, and we try to tailor it a little bit to the local needs potentially, but also within the framework of what's in the course, and so having that ability to do both in-person courses and virtual just allows us again to make it more accessible to everyone that's out there, because we know travel budgets are tight, we know it's difficult sometimes to be able to bring in a course to your environment or to send your learners to other places to take a multi-day course, and so we've kept that flexibility by offering the virtual option, which has been very popular because it really allows anyone from all over the globe to attend these courses.
Deb Tauber:Now, Adam, when you guys do the virtual ones, do people come from all over or, generally, does one organization just send all their people to the course?
Adam Cheng:Yeah, great question. We've had people come from all over the world, I think. If we look at our website, www. thebriefingacademy. com., I think we're up to 26 or 27 countries who've had participants, from every single continent really, and so that just adds to the diversity. We love it when we have people coming from all over the world sharing their own personal experiences. It adds to the diversity.
Adam Cheng:We have a lot to learn from all the participants. We have discussions about cultural differences and expectations, or differences between professions or different types of hospitals, but also the various different frameworks that people have used or have been taught and how they might be applicable in certain situations, and so lots of richness there to be had when we're learning from others. We've had many programs send large groups of educators to take our courses, and the benefit, of course, is that they all learn the same content and they all leave knowing the same content. Of course is that they all learn the same content and they all leave knowing the same content. What we try to do is we try to provide opportunity for them to be mixed into different small groups so that they can always learn from other people as well what's the typical size of the class?
Vincent Grant:uh, the master d river course. We, we don't set a limit on it. I think our sweet spot, deb, is to be around 24 folks. We try to maintain because we do. We try to maintain because we do a lot of interactive exercises and we do a lot of small groups and a lot of role play. We try to have a really high facilitator to learner ratio. So we'll often have eight facilitators for the course, like eight folks from the debriefing academy that teach one of these courses, and so that sweet spot tends to be around 24. And that way we can break into, you know, four groups of six and there's lots of opportunity to practice, there's lots of opportunity to engage in conversation and discussion about these topics.
Vincent Grant:But, you know, we'll expand it. We'll expand it when need be. So if we have groups that want to teach a few more, we're open to that as well, and I think the big thing is just to try to keep it a great experience for everyone, and we've been fortunate to be running these courses now this course in particular since 2019. And the feedback is always amazing to get back from the learners and to hear the stories of how they're incorporating what they've learned and the fact that they've told more friends and then they come to the course and one of the neat things about our international community is that we'll sometimes have people attend this course that are awake in the middle of the night and they just love it and they're happy to either stay awake or get up early just because they want to be able to access it and they're really engaged in those conversations. So it makes it a lot. Like I said earlier, it makes it a lot of fun to do.
Deb Tauber:Vince. Do you have a favorite story?
Vincent Grant:Oh gosh, that's a great question. You know, I think the store, the things that I love the most, are finding out. What will typically happen, to be honest, is I'll be at a conference like IMSH or CSAM or something and I'll run into someone. That it's hard sometimes in the virtual world because all you get is a face. So you know, sometimes the height of someone changes and you just don't recognize them.
Vincent Grant:But all people that come up that have say they've taken one of our courses and how deeply impacted they were by what they learned and even at the time they don't really appreciate.
Vincent Grant:I guess they're learning and they're just trying to assimilate it and they're trying to think about it, but then they go out and they actually encounter situations.
Vincent Grant:So one of my favorite areas to teach around is difficulty briefing situations and I'll have people that in the course will be like I could never manage an argument between two of my learners.
Vincent Grant:But I'll have them come back and tell me in a really acute setting where they had a few different people on their team that were really getting into a bit of an active argument and they were like I kind of took a deep breath, kind of swallowed hard and I just tried these tools out, and then they'll say like I couldn't believe how well it worked, because what they reflect on is that it all sounds easy in the chorus, but I don't know if this is going to work with my group and my environments. But it's actually the flip is that people will be like, yeah, that was amazing how that worked. And you know, I mean, like I said, it's not. These aren't original ideas from us. We just pull from all these other areas and and sectors where communicating is so essential at its core, and so, yeah, the stories like that are the cool ones for me, where you know, you get to meet people afterwards and and they're just so excited to continue that journey because they've learned something that is transformative, which is, I think it's really cool.
Deb Tauber:Yeah, thank you. Thank you. What about you, Adam? Do you have a favorite story?
Adam Cheng:Yeah, I have a couple actually.
Adam Cheng:So there have been a few participants who took our in person course, which was first delivered four or five years ago, who loved it so much that they actually retook the course when it was offered as a virtual course and then brought all their friends, and so that was just, you know, quite humbling for us, to be honest, to to know that people were wanted to take the course more than once just because they thought that they had they'd like another opportunity to be engaged in the community and to fine-tune and refine their skills.
Adam Cheng:So that was a lot of fun to see those folks again. And the other was which has brought immense sense of pride and gratification was that we've had several folks who have taken the course who are now faculty with us and they're just absolute superstars. Like the moment that we started to interact with them, we knew that they were superstars, and now that they're our colleagues and teaching with us, that just sort of validates those initial thoughts. So that's just been really exciting to be able to have them on board with us and just see them grow, share all their knowledge and expertise from course to course.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:I was in 2022,. I was in Saudi Arabia in their simulation conference and then someone said where are you from? I said I'm from Canada. Oh, I just took recently, just a course from your Canadian fellows, like you know, I said. I said we took a debriefing academy course for our team and Adam Chang was one of the instructor. Do you know him? I said I definitely know him. So, yeah, you can see that, even around the world that I met a couple of people. They have taken new courses, so definitely it's a great impact on the entire community. Just another thing I heard about Academy Archive. Is this a new branch of Debriefing Academy? If you can just tell us a little bit more about this new initiative that you started I think I saw you guys at IMSH as well. You had a booth there last year and the launch of Academy Archive, and I want to know more about and I'm sure the audience are looking forward to know more about that what it is Vince, if you can.
Vincent Grant:Yeah, happy to share. And just I'll throw a small note in there too that we'll be back at IMSH this year. We will have a booth in the Expo Hall, so please drop by to say hello and bring any questions that you have. After having listened to this podcast on SimCafe from a lot of people that we were engaging with around faculty development in simulation, education and just this difficulty sometimes with synchronous learning, so, like I love the idea of learning about these different elements and facets, but I I can't devote the time to a course I wish there was something that was more asynchronous and so said there is no reason that all of this can't be developed in an asynchronous fashion.
Vincent Grant:So we endeavored on this new opportunity called the Academy Archive. So it's www. academyarchive. com and what it really is is a subscription-based service to everything simulation. So it's a one-stop shop for everything simulation. You're developing a program and how to put it together, maybe some basic fundamentals around simulation all the way to. I'm in charge of operating a program or leadership in simulation, or I've been tasked with developing a research program or I just I want to learn these like really advanced debriefing skills. So really, if you go look, it's just a one-stop shop for every topic that you can imagine in simulation immersive technologies, patient safety, using systems, integrate, simulates for systems integration, like it's really all there. And so it just allows that ability for us to create courses that are in bite size. And you guys will appreciate this, the fact that you shoot podcasts we just try to make everything a little bite-sized.
Vincent Grant:So each course that we offer is made up with a bunch of modules. Each module has a bunch of little lesson types. The lessons could be a coffee chat between two of our experts talking about one element of a module, a lesson. In their course there's some reference to literature. They might have a little bit of time to journal chat. They bring, like the like, a concept overview of all of the main Kind of things to think about in each of these topic areas, and so it's all there as bite-sized little pieces and basically people work through these Lessons and work through these modules and they get all the content. They take a quiz, they get a certificate and so it just it makes it, I, a little more approachable again, probably from a time point where someone can subscribe and then they can just do it at their leisure and they can work through these different modules and lessons.
Deb Tauber:How long does the subscription last? Do you have to do it for a certain amount of time or?
Adam Cheng:Yeah, so the subscriptions are annual subscriptions, and so, as an individual, you can subscribe, or if you're, say, a program director simulation program director you can subscribe as an institution for a certain number of users within your institution, and so that can be customized, of course, to the number of users 5, 10, 25, 100, however many you need. The benefit, of course, is that it allows you to tailor the education to your needs. And so, for example, we'll have programs subscribe as institutions for 10 educators and they just don't have the time and the energy to run an advanced debriefing course. All of them have received foundational training in debriefing, but they don't have the time and energy to run an advanced debriefing course. They don't have the budget to send all 10 of their educators to take an advanced debriefing course, because that would be lots of money, as we all know. And so, instead, they subscribe to the Academy Archive.
Adam Cheng:We have a course on advanced debriefing, and the program director might say to their educators OK, we'd love for you to complete modules one and two by the end of the month, and then let's sit for an hour and discuss some of these skills and practice them together. And so, basically, what we're allowing is for these educators for their directors to upload the faculty development responsibility to their website and their educators come, they log, log in, they learn all the same content through videos and checklists and blueprints and practice activities and then, uh, and then they can follow along and learn together as a group. And then, of course you know, right now we have six courses online. Within the next few months we hope to have around 10 to 12 courses up and that will address the entire laundry list of needs of any simulation or any healthcare simulation program.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:So the people that subscribe would get any new modules that is going to be developed as well and added to the to the list of existing courses, so they will be still receiving those courses as well.
Vincent Grant:Absolutely they will, and that's the beauty of getting the modules up as soon as we can. So, as I mentioned, we probably have a list of about 15 courses overall that we're going to develop in this initial phase, and so we have invited again experts in these fields that are well known internationally that are helping to develop that content and teach the content, and so we're working with all of those experts to try to get modules up. As Adam said, there's about six courses up right and a couple of them are fully complete and a few of them are where you have modules going up as they're being created. But there's a big especially in this next 12 months. There's going to be a big uplift in terms of what's available there, and even into the future we will come up with new ideas for themes or topics or courses as they come up, with new ideas for themes or topics or courses as they come, and we will also work with the existing faculty to add additional modules in those areas if something comes up that is identified as a need.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:I just checked the pricing on this. It's very in power with. A lot of people can afford this, even using their PD fund professional development fund to do it, even individually if they wanted to maintain their knowledge. I think me at university here in BC. I've got about $700 a year to spend. I think it's $250 is a good price to even just have that. It's Canadian, by the way, so $249 Canadian. When people access this from the US, they get the US price for it. It's a lot cheaper than it's going to be.
Vincent Grant:Yeah, it's set up to be approachable in that way from both the US and Canada and then internationally, I think, through US dollars.
Vincent Grant:I think the big thing Spruce I'm glad you brought that up is that you know for this. I mean the big thing is is let's create a platform to run this on, so there's a custom built learning management system to host the course, and let's keep it in a way that makes it fresh and accessible. And so I think for Adam and I, I mean one of the driving forces is and I mentioned this earlier is just accessibility. So let's make it accessible by being fair on what the worth is right, just to get more people in the community, get more people learning these kind of areas and topics, and let's keep it in a way that it adds to the professional development that's out there, which is, overall, I'd say, lacking. And so if there's a way we can help people again to grow their programs, to grow their own practice as you know, simulationists I mean that's what we want to be for this community I totally agree because I think this is great.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:I help a lot of simulation centers for the years and one thing is just, you know, it's just not only the faculties people say you know, we are onboarding a new semtex, there's an, an operation, there's a person, there will be a coordinator. So this platform offers now that one tourniquet or one location that you can learn different type of skills and information and in the past you have to go too many places to just bring that individuals on board. Where here now I think you can see the flavor of all those content that is relevant to running a simulation center from all aspects.
Adam Cheng:So yeah, yeah, that was certainly intent, fruits. I'm glad you brought that up. I mean, I think, as Vince said, accessibility is key to us. We don't want folks just from developed countries to be able to have access. We want people from all around the world, doesn't matter where you're from. We want them to be able to have access. We want people from all around the world, it doesn't matter where you're from. We want them to be able to have access. And the key is now they get access to some of the main thought leaders in healthcare simulation in the world.
Adam Cheng:And so, for Ferooz, you're one of the faculty on the simulation operations course and you've teamed up with Nick Brower, your buddy, to deliver a course on simulation operations. And so, if you want to learn how to you know what it takes to be a SimOps specialist. You know how to set up your AV technology in your simulation program, how to design a simulation center, what sort of skills to look for when you're hiring for different people within your simulation program. I mean, that's just a small sampling of the types of content that's within the simulation operations course, just very practical, pragmatic advice from thought leaders in the world.
Adam Cheng:On the other hand, we're having a course come online soon on simulation leadership, and that course is going to be run by KT Waxman and Pam Jeffries, both nursing simulation leaders, who have been at it for 25 to 30 years each collectively had led simulation programs and master's programs and PhD programs and international societies. So, drawing from their wealth of expertise, they're going to provide some guidance and advice on how you can build a career in simulation, how to identify and get the most out of leadership opportunities, how to sort of maximize your leadership skills, etc. Cetera. So not only do we want to provide access, but we want to provide access to the experts, and I think what we've done is we've built a team here who we believe are true experts in the field, who published extensively, who've held leadership positions in all sorts of societies and organizations, who are really challenged with the task of delivering content which is super practical, evidence-based, but also super practical so that people can make and implement changes immediately.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:I see there's a link from the Academy Archive to Debriefing Academy and from debriefingacademy. com. There's a link so that our audience can find both websites.
Deb Tauber:And we can put those in the show notes too, so the learners can yeah, listeners can find that.
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:Well, that's great. Thank you very much, Adam and Vince. I think that was a great conversation, a lot to learn, even knowing a little bit about both of these services that you have. But still, I learned a lot today even from this conversation. I think I'm sure most of our audience and listeners also get to check these great resources out there.
Deb Tauber:Thank you. Any closing thoughts? Adam, do you have any closing thoughts for our listeners?
Adam Cheng:No, I mean thanks, guys, for the opportunity to chat today. You know, whether you decide to access some of the resources we shared today or look elsewhere to access resources, you know, I do think that this notion of faculty development is so key and central to ensure that healthcare simulation programs are really making a difference. Oftentimes, it's the very last budget line, if it even gets included on the budget at all, and so let's not make faculty development afterthought. Let's, you know, put it at the forefront, let's value our facilitators and educators and let's support them in being able to make a difference within our programs.
Deb Tauber:Thank you. How about you Vince Anything?
Vincent Grant:Tha y, h abo y Vi Anythi? Yeah, one last thing I'll throw out there for anyone that's interested is if they want to just go check out the website. We have a new dimension, I guess, to the website called InfoQuips, where we have created a free online resource of a lot of the thinking that goes into some of our courses. So we've created some great visuals that people can go and check out, and it'll really it just it's another way we can interface with the community. So all we would ask when you is you sign up for to be on our kind of email list, but for that you'll have access to a broad range of these info quips, these little targeted teaching moments in a lot of different areas, and so I would just suggest people go by the website and just check it out, and even if they, you know, are from a program that may not have the money to help support their faculty development, there is some free resources there that they can access to help again on their journey as simulation facilitators and debriefers.
Deb Tauber:Thank you. So you're saying that there's free materials up on the www. thedebriefingacademy. com?
Vincent Grant:Yeah, there sure is. There's a place on the banner where it says info quips and, like I said, all you need to do is type in your email and you can get a look at some of these, like these teachings and visuals that we've put together for the community of these, like these teachings and visuals that we've put together for the community.
Deb Tauber:Thank you, Fe. Any closing thoughts?
Ferooz Sekandarpoor:Oh, thank you. I'm so excited about these new resources that are available for our community. As you know, we serve both of us serve for our community globally and internationally, so we just want to make sure that these sort of resources are known to our community, and that's why we brought both Adam and Vince to just tell us about these two great websites and look forward to seeing them in person at iMessage. I can't wait for that. And, yeah, thank you very much for letting me co-host with you, deb.
Deb Tauber:Thank you and happy simulating.
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