 Posted on December 11, 2011, by garymrossi
Dr. Simon is a human factors specialist and educator with a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts. For the past 20 plus years he has specialized in research, development and training for high-performance, high-stress teams in aviation and medicine. He worked as principal investigator for the US Army Aircrew Coordination Program, which applies lessons learned from aviation crew resource management to healthcare. Dr. Simon joined CMS in 2002 as Education Director and now serves as the Director of CMS’ Institute for Medical Simulation. He is an Instructor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and serves in the faculty of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia, Critical care and Pain Medicine
Posted on November 3, 2011, by garymrossi
Please join us on Tuesday November 8th, Tuesday from 5:30-7:00 PM for the Boston Simulation Community Research and Education Meeting.
Topic: Simulation Instructor Certification as a Peer-Guided Learning Process
Toni Walzer, MD, Deb Navedo, PhD, CPNP, CNE, Jenny W. Rudolph, PhD, Robert Simon EdD,
Over the past 10 years, the Center for Medical Simulation’s approach to developing and certifying its own instructors has evolved. This interactive session will discuss the recently revised CMS certification process, which includes peer observation, rating, and feedback on debriefings. The meeting will provide attendees with the opportunity to observe, rate, and provide feedback on a debriefing, and to discuss the action research project being led by Deb Navedo to understand what faculty learn via this process.
More detail: Both the process of agreeing on instructor certification criteria, and the process of putting them into practice foster debate about what it means to be a competent simulation instructor. With the help of Deb Navedo from the Institute for Health Professions at MGH, CMS has also embarked on an action research project to study how our “Community of Practice” learns from each other about how to improve debriefing skills.
Toni Walzer, MD co-directs the Labor and Delivery Teamwork Simulation Program at CMS
Deb Navedo, PhD, CPNP, CNE is the Coordinator of Teaching and Learning Certificate Program, MGH Institute of Health Professions
Jenny W. Rudolph, PhD directs the Graduate Program of the Institute for Medical Simulation
Robert Simon, EdD is the Education Director of the Center for Medical Simulation and directs the Institute for Medical Simulation.
About the Boston Simulation Community Research and Education Meeting:
Our 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. Please join us!
Up-coming meetings:
December 13th:
Measuring Problem Representation Among Preclinical Medical Students Following Mannequin Simulations
Emily Hayden, MD, MEd, Gilbert Program in Medical Simulation, Harvard Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital Learning Lab
Clinical reasoning is an important skill for medical students to acquire during both their pre-clinical and clinical years. Based on the work on teaching problem representation as a framework for clinical reasoning, the purpose of this project was to develop an instrument capable of detecting differences between students who were trained to use problem representation versus those who were not.
January 10th: Preparation and preview for International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, 2012
Posted on October 19, 2011, by garymrossi
We’ve added two IMS “Simulation as a Teaching Tool” Simulation Instructor Workshops in 2012. The first workshop will be held at the Medical Simulation Center at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California from February 6-9, 2012. A few months later the CMS Faculty will head to New York City where they’ll teach the course at the Institute for Medical Simulation and Learning (IMSAL) at the Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.
Taught by CMS’ Harvard faculty, the Simulation as a Teaching Tool Workshop is a 4-day intensive immersion in healthcare simulation that is specifically designed for those educators seeking to develop high quality simulation programs. It covers high level elements and concepts involved in using simulation as a teaching tool.
Drawing on the disciplines of aviation, healthcare, psychology, experiential learning, and organizational behavior, participants learn how to teach clinical, behavioral, and cognitive skills through simulation. Participants explore simulator based teaching methods applicable across the healthcare education spectrum, including undergraduate and graduate medical, nursing and allied health domains.
The daily formats vary and include simulation scenarios, lectures, small and large group discussions, and practical exercises with feedback. Ample opportunities are provided for networking and sharing experiences. Attendees join a growing community of Institute graduates who are positioned as leaders in the field.
Tuition for this workshop is $4,000
To learn more about the workshop, or to apply, visit the Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) website’s IMS webpage at
http://www.harvardmedsim.org/ims/html. You can also email CMS at info@harvardmedsim.org , or call Gary Rossi, CMS’ COO at 617.768.8267
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Posted on September 28, 2011, by garymrossi
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.
Posted on September 28, 2011, by garymrossi
 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
Posted on September 24, 2011, by garymrossi
 
Last Thursday CMS had the honor of hosting Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger”. Captain Sullenberger is the pilot who safely landed US Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson River in January, 2009 saving everyone on board after his aircraft hit a flock of birds knocking out both engines after takeoff. Captain Sullenberger, who retired from US Airways after thirty years of services in March, 2010, is a recognized expert on airline safety. He’s served as an instructor and as the Air Line Pilots Association Safety Chairman where his safety work led to the development of the Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Circular. Captain Sullenberger was instrumental in developing and implementing the Crew Resource Management course that is used by US Airways. Since 2007 he has run his own consulting firm, Safety Reliability Methods (SRM), Inc. which provides expert solutions to complex problems involving safety, high performance, and high reliability in the aviation industry. And, this past May he became the Aviaition and Safety Expert for CBS News. Captain Sullenberger is interested in learning more about what can be done to improve safety in the healthcare sector and visited CMS to see the cutting work we’re doing using simulation to help improve the quality and safety of care delivered to patients.
Posted on September 24, 2011, by garymrossi
 Congratulations to our friends Demian Szyld and Grace Ng on the opening of the New York Simulation Center for Health Sciences. The 20.8 million dollar training center, located at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, is a collaboration between the NYU Langone Medical Center and the City University of New York. It opened a few weeks ago, after nearly a decade of planning, and was created in large part as a response to the September 11, 2001 attack on New York City. Demian and Grace (right and center in the picture by Paul Taggart of the NY Times) are long time friends of CMS and often teach in the CMS Institute of Medical Simulation Instructor Courses.
Everyone here at CMS wishes the them the best of success with the new center.
Posted on June 22, 2011, by garymrossi
 
Crisis Management Training for Practicing Anesthesiologists
Tuition: $1500
Meets the MOCA® Part IV Simulation Requirement
The Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) is offering intensive one day workshops in Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management (ACRM) for all anesthesiologists that will meet the MOCA® Part IV simulation requirement. These workshops have been approved for 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 continuing education credits and are also eligible for Risk Management Study.
CMS Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management workshops are designed for those anesthesiologists seeking to practice their skills in managing critical events. The overall focus of these workshops is on learning the type of teamwork and generic skills needed when managing any kind of infrequent but critical event in anesthesia and opportunities will be made available to learn skills in managing certain specific events. During the workshops, participants requiring MOCA® certification will each have a turn as the primary anesthesiologist caring for the patient.
The Center for Medical Simulation is an endorsed program in the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Simulation Education Network, and has ensured that this workshop complies with the American Board of Anesthesiologists’ Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesia MOCA® Part IV simulation requirements. MOCA® is a registered certification mark of The American Board of Anesthesiology, Inc.
Schedule September 2011 – June 2012
September 8, 19, 22
October 6, 27, 31
November 3, 21, 28
December 5, 8, 12, 19
January 5, 9, 19, 23
February 6, 9, 13, 27
March 5, 19, 22, 26
April 9, 23
May 7, 10, 21
June 4, 7, 11
Additional Saturday and weekday courses may be scheduled pending demand. CMS welcome entire teams from your group by special arrangement .
View Workshop PDF
Click here to Apply for this Workshop
Posted on June 22, 2011, by garymrossi
 For the past 4 months CMS has had the distinct pleasure of having Dr. Guillermo Ortiz-Ruiz as a visiting Simulation Fellow. Dr. Ortiz-Ruiz hails from Bogota, Columbia where he is the Director of the Critical Care Department at Hospital Santa Clara and the Director of the Postgraduate Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Universidad el Bosque. He is an internationally recognized expert on managing sepsis in the ICU setting and has published numerous articles as well as a text on sepsis. Dr. Ortiz-Ruiz came to CMS to receive in depth training on developing a world class simulation program. While at CMS he worked on a project creating simulation scenarios that utilize sepsis bundles. After his return to Columbia, Dr. Ortiz-Ruiz will be involved in the development of a multi-site simulation program in Bogota.
This Thursday evening, June 23rd, Dr. Ortiz-Ruiz will speak at the Boston Simulation Community Research and Education Meeting on “Using Simulation to Improve the Management of Sepsis in the ICU”. The meeting will be held at The Center for Medical Simulation, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 and will start at 5:30 pm. Dr Ortiz-Ruiz will be returning to Columbia on Saturday. Everyone here at CMS will miss Guillermo and wish him great success on his new Simulation Center project.
Posted on June 21, 2011, by garymrossi
 “Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) recognizes Dr. Cate Nicholas as their 2011 Outstanding Educator of the Year”
Cate Nicholas, EdD, MS, PA, Director of Operations and Director of the Standardized Patient (SP) Program for the Fletcher Allen Heath Care/University of Vermont Clinical Simulation Laboratory was named the 2011 Outstanding Standardized Patient Educator of the Year at the annual conference of the Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) held in Nashville, Tenn. ASPE is the international organization for professionals in the field of simulated and standardized patient methodology. The ASPE Educator award is given to individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of SP education and are recognized as leaders within their own institutions, the SP community and by national and international organizations. Cate was recognized for her capacity to convince and stimulate others to work together to further the goals of ASPE, and for her humor and sense of purpose which has helped build a strong foundation for the organization. http://www.aspeducators.org/
Cate is an alumna of CMS’ Institute for Medical Simulation Comprehensive Simulation Instructor Course (August 2010) and the Graduate Course (April 2011). Everyone here at CMS would like to congratulate Cate on her receiving this honor.
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Congratulations to CMS’ Robert Simon, EdD, for being selected to speak at the 8th Öresund Symposium on Clinical Skills Training where he spoke on “Effective Feedback. Closing the performance gap” The conference was held at the Stadionmässan in Malmö Sweden on December 6th and featured international lecturers who gave presentations on on patient safety, evaluation, paediatrics and communication skills. Click here and then scroll down the right hand side to 15:15 to see Dr. Simon’s presentation.
