Jeff Cooper, CMS Executive Director, was chosen to deliver the 2011 Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture at this year’s American Society of Anesthesiologist’s Annual Meeting.  In his lecture, titled  “APSF and Anesthesia Patient Safety: Leadership Lessons From the Legacy of Jeep Pierce”, Dr. Cooper described the beginnings of the patient safety movement and the founding of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF). He spoke about the vison and leadership of its founders, who included Dr. Ellison “Jeep” Pierce, and commented on how anesthesiology was at the forefront of this sea of change nearly 20 years ahead of the rest of medicine. Dr. Cooper concluded by noting that focused research and clinical improvements over the past 26 years have made anesthesiology very safe. And, that although the anesthesia community should feel very good about these improvements in patient safety, there is still much work to be done.

Join your Simulation colleagues on Tuesday October 11, from 5:30-7pm for the monthly Boston Simulation Community Research and Education Meeting.  The meeting is being hosted by Center for Medical Simulation,  65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

 A  Conversation with John Morey PhD, senior research psychologist at Dynamics Research Corporation, Andover, MA.  The Sim Center Goes to War:  Using Civilian Simulation Centers for Army National Guard and Reserve Medical Unit Training

Dr. John Morey is the senior research psychologist at Dynamics Research Corporation, Andover, MA,  and has 33 years of experience as a practicing human factors specialist and applied psychologist. For the past twenty years Dr. Morey has been conducting research into methods to improve performance in high skill, mission-critical military and healthcare work settings. He was a member of the original development team for the MedTeams® project, a joint civilian and military program to transition lessons-learned from aviation crew resource management to health care. Most recently he has been conducting research to improve simulation training opportunities for Army National Guard and Reserve medical care providers. His earlier research involved improving individual and team performance through the use of aviation and combat vehicle full-mission simulators. Dr. Morey has led projects to improve skilled performance training programs, the design and evaluation of job performance aids, the analysis of workload, measuring the relationship between attitudes and performance, and operational improvements in visual and mechanical systems used by high-performance teams. Dr. Morey holds a PhD from the University of Georgia in experimental psychology, and has over 80 publications, presentations, and technical reports in  human factors and training development.
 
About the Boston Simulation Community Research and Education Meeting:

BSCREM meetings provide a friendly and informal venue for simulation educators and researchers to present work-in-progress, acquaint each other with relevant ideas from other disciplines and connect with others. We meet the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

Everyone here at the Center for Medical Simulation extends their heartfelt congratulations to Catherine “Kate” Morse, MSN, RN, CCRN, CRNP-BC on being chosen as the receipient of a Jonas Scholarship to help support her studies toward a  PhD in Nursing.  Kate, who is an Alumna of CMS’ IMS Comrehensive and Gradute courses is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of  Graduate Nursing at Drexel University.  Kate is one of only 58 people from across the country to receive this prestigious scholarship.

The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence was established in 2006 by the Barbara and Donald Jonas Family Fund to advance the profession of nursing  in novel and traditional ways. Through its philanthropy, the Center has awarded nearly $3 million towards the Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program to support the education of new nursing faculty, to stimulate joint faculty appointments between schools of nursing and clinical affiliates and to bring together opinion leaders to develop solutions to long-standing problems challenging the nursing profession

Dan is off again to Hong Kong to spread the word on improving patient safety through simulation. This week he’s at the Asia Pacific Meeting on Simultion in Healthcare (APMSH). The APMSH is being held in Hong Kong from May 19 -22, 2011. It’s sponsored by the Socisty for Simulation in Healthcare and the Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare in conjunction with their regional Asia Pacific partners. Dan’s keynote address  is titled, “International Healthcare Simulation: A gourmet Tour of The Past Present and Future?” (more…)

It’s been a very busy week here at CMS where we are holding our IMS 5 1/2 day  Comprehensive Instructor Workshop in Medical Simulation.  Our first instructor workshop was held in 2004 and we’ve updated it extensively through the years. With experiential education being the keystone of simulation, this course is a mix of theory, practice and feedback so that students develop a strong and comprehensive understanding of how to most effectively use simulation within their education programs.  This week we have 20 attendees from all over the United States and Canada and as far away as Saudi Arabia. They represent a wide range of experience, disciplines and specialties, but all share a common goal of become outstanding educational leaders or directors of a current or prospective simulation program.

Tonight the staff and faculty are taking the entire group out to dinner at Henrietta’s table, a well known restaurant in Camridge’s Harvard Square. We include an opening evening cocktail reception and a dinner later in the week in all of our IMS workshops. This gives the faculty, staff and students the opportunity to meet in a more informal setting where they can get to know each other on a more personal level.

Here at CMS we have our own version of the popular PBS show, “Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?”  Our’s features longtime CMS faculty member Dan Raemer who we feel puts the popular globe trotting PBS character to shame in his quest to improve patient safety and medical education through the use of simulation.  Since the beginning of this year Dan has been to New York to help teach an IMS Instructor Course; New Orleans for the IMSH Meeting where he helped teach several workshops and then on to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane Australia and Hong Kong, China to help teach more CMS’ Simulation Instructor Courses.  After coming back to the States for a short visit and change of clothes Dan headed back to Australia last month. While there he spent he spent five days at the Royal Melbourne Hospital giving a series of talks and workshops on teamwork, crisis management and speaking up to medical students and other healthcare professionals.  He followed this up with a week long visiting professorship at the John Hunter Hospital in New Castle, Australia where he did workshops for the innovation and simulation departments on improvisiation, evaluation and strategy.  Later this week Dan is flying to California where he’ll be giving the key note lecture at a the 1st Annual Loma Linda University Simulation Center Regional Simulation Conference.  Two weeks later Dan will be travelling to back to Hong Kong to give the the keynote address at the Asia-Pacific Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (APMSH).  In early June, Dan is heading to Granada Spain for the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied To Medicine (SESAM) where he’ll be leading a workshop on CMS’ Debriefing Assessment for Simulation in Healthcare (DASH).   Right after SESAM, Dan will travel to Santander Spain where he’ll help teach CMS’ IMS/Europe Institute for Medical Simulation Instructor Course at the Hospital Virtual Valdecilla. Then it’s back to the States where Dan will be conducting a pre-conference workshop on Methods for Assessing Teamwork in Simulation at the 10th annual International Nursing Simulation/Learning Resource Centers Conference (INACSL) in Orlando, Florida.

The faculty at the Center for Medical Simulation recently had the pleasure of traveling to the far east to conduct an IMS Instructor Course  in Hong Kong, SAR, China. Twenty distinguished physicians and nurses from Hong Kong’s major hospitals attended the course which was sponsored by the Hong Kong Hospital Authority. Everyone here at CMS would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the Hospital Authority for the graciousness and hospitality extended to the CMS faculty during their visit .  Here are some pictures from this wonderful visit to Hong Kong.

Join us this evening from 5:30-7:00 PM as CMS hosts the Boston Simulation Community Research and Education Meeting at its offices at 65 Landsdowne Street, 1st Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139.

TONIGHT:

A Conversation with Helen Reiss, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, on the Neurobiology of Difficult Conversations. (more…)

CMS faculty members Robert Simon, Dan Raemer, Jenny Rudolph and Walter Eppich are in Australia to teach the IMS “Simulation As A Teaching Tool” and “Advanced Debriefing”  Workshops to our simulation friends in the land of OZ.  This is our third year conducting workshops in Australia and we never fail to be impressed by the knowledge, enthusiasm and dedication of Simulation Educators in this wonderful country.  CMS has made many friends here and hopes to make these workshops an ongoing event. 

After the Australia workshops, Robert, Dan and Walter will be doing something new this year. Instead of heading home they’ll  travelling further west, or is that east, to Hong Kong where they’ll be conducting the “Simulation As A Teaching Tool” workshop for our friends at the Hong Kong Hospital Authority. 

The dates for the 2011 workshops in Australia and Hong Kong are:

• Melbourne, Australia: February 14-17    Sponsored by Monash University
• Brisbane, Australia: February 21 – 24    Sponsored by the Queensland Skills Development Service
• Sydney, Australia: March 1-4    Sponsored by the Sydney Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre
• Hong Kong, SAR China: March 8 -12    Sponsored by the Hong Kong Hospital Authority

In June, Robert Simon will help teach the ”Simulation As A Teaching Tool” workshop at our IMS/Europe Affiliate, Hospital Virtual Valdecilla in Santander, Spain. The cost for this workshop is only $2,000 Euros and it will be conducted in English. Contact Ignacio delMoral at idelmoral@me.com for more information.

CMS has a full time opening for an experienced Medical Simulation Education Specialist. This individual will assist in organizing and conducting teamwork and train-the-trainer educational courses that use web-based distance learning, social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter), and on-site clinical simulation technologies (such as mannequins, standardized patients, and computer simulations). The Specialist may also be involved in posting content developed by others to blogs and social media, operating web-conferencing computer platforms, coordination of logistics of web-based training, or setting up, troubleshooting and operating mannequin technology for simulation courses or medical device testing, coordinating simulation logistics, and research support.

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