Day1: Scenario design and Delivery

Aims

To develop skills to run immersive simulation training (IST) in a

range of health-care settings.

Topics covered

The course focuses on the following topics

· Getting started – the IST learning environment, briefing and familiarizing learners for IST

· Core principles – safety, respect and the fiction contract

· Writing scenarios with a focus on clinical and behavioural learning objectives

· Delivering IST: equipment, actors, props, resources, stage management

· Adapting to other applications and settings (in-situ)

Topics not covered include: Training simulated patients; teaching procedural skills.

Approach

· Participants will work in small groups with experienced clinical simulation instructors.

· The focus on the day will be practice and feedback using manikin simulators, actors, discussion and feedback

·Templates provided for: briefing checklists; powerpoints; scenarios; appraisals.

Day 2: Debriefing, Reflection & Feedback

Aims

To develop communication skills relevant to learning and feedback – whether these are used in the setting of simulated learning (debriefing), clinical supervision or ward-based learning. The course focusses on conversations with individuals and groups

Topics covered:

The course focuses on the following topics

· Preparing learners for reflective conversations

· Achieving structure and engagement (empathy) in conversations

· Facilitating discussions with groups and individuals

· Giving feedback

· Promoting reflection and critical thinking

· Coaching

Approach

Participants will work in small groups with experienced clinical simulation instructors engaging in discussion, role play, simulations with actors and feedback from instructors.

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