IMS Graduate Course

For those who have completed the Comprehensive Instructor Workshop or Instructor Training courses at IMS.

4 Workshops days and 2 Webinars | $4,225/person
Designed to prepare leaders in simulation for challenges and opportunities involved in bringing significant reform to healthcare education. This course explores methods and tools that leaders can use to enhance and expand their simulation program.

The graduate course includes two two-hour webinars and a four-day onsite course. To build skills, community, and simulation cases to run on-site, the webinars are scheduled for March 29 and April 26, 2012, at 4-6 p.m. EDT (GMT – 5). The on-site course runs four full days from May 15-18, 2012, here at the Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) in Cambridge.

The daily format varies and includes advanced leadership modules, advanced debriefing practice, and teaches participants how to establish their own simulation instructor training program. Evening social events provide additional opportunities for networking, fellowship and support.

Topics vary each year to include:

Strategic frameworks and leadership tools
Innovative ways to use simulation technology for education and assessment
Developing effective simulation initiatives in healthcare
Developing a simulation instructor training program at your institution *
Advanced topics in simulation debriefing *
Advanced topics in scenario development e.g., medical error, delivering bad news, equipment failure, ethical problems

* These two topics are taught every year and are strongly emphasized

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Advanced Debriefing

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