Simulation Clinical Scenario Design Workshop for Practicing Clinicians

Abstract

Introduction: Faculty development is important to developing skilled faculty members who are able to effectively design and deliver educational content. There has been an increase in courses designed to help faculty better teach at the bedside, but fewer options for those interested in developing their skills as simulation-based educators. Our goal was to create a workshop to train prospective simulation educators on the skills and knowledge necessary to design a clinical scenario. Methods: Learners participate in a 90-minute workshop utilizing short, didactic teaching and practical hands-on practice. Faculty guide learners through the process of developing targeted goals and learning outcomes, setting the scene for a clinical scenario, and storyboarding the main action. Learners work individually, but engage in peer-to-peer feedback, as well as instructor feedback, throughout the session. Results: We have run four iterations of this workshop at our institution in the past year, and developed a modified version for an international meeting. A total of 51 learners from our hospital have completed the workshop. Overall, learners agree that the workshop is informative and increases their knowledge. For each educational objective, more than 70% of participants indicated the workshop increased their competence in the area either "extremely" or "quite a bit." Discussion: This workshop provides learners hand-on practice in developing a scenario for simulation-based education. Learners leave with the tools and knowledge necessary to take the work developed in the session and create a complete scenario that can be used at our simulation center or at another facility.

Mapping the Terrain of Faculty Development for Simulation

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Navigate the Challenges of Simulation for Assessment: A Faculty Development Workshop

“…The target audience includes educators across the health professions with an interest in simulation. There are simulation-based faculty development workshops published in MedEdPORTAL that serve as an introduction to simulation scenario design 11 and interprofessional simulation. 12 Our work expands upon these offerings by providing a framework to teach educators how to conduct assessments in a simulated environment.…”