Welcome to the Healthcare Simulation Essentials: Design and Debriefing course! This exciting program, led by some of the best simulation educators in the world, is the Center for Medical Simulation’s flagship faculty development course. We feature our unique Debriefing with Good Judgment© and SimZones approaches to empower you to use simulation to address real challenges in your healthcare organizations and health profession schools.

To help you make the most of your experience, we ask you to do a little work before the course begins. Take the time to speak with at least one key partner in your organization to pinpoint a specific problem that could be tackled with simulation, like a patient safety issue or a curriculum challenge. Then, during the course, you will collaborate in small, immersive groups where you will work with faculty and peers to design a simulation curriculum together and practice Debriefing with Good Judgment© techniques.

We can’t wait to work with you and see the amazing impact you will make!

In these rapidly changing times, CMS is innovating to meet the challenge. This flagship educator course is now available online in addition to in person in Boston. Not only will we now offer this transformational course online, we have updated the curriculum to focus the course on helping participants make a significant, measurable impact on their organization.With the financial strain on health care systems and universities, simulation programs increasingly compete with a variety of other healthcare education, quality, and safety efforts for resources. Simulation must solve real organizational problems. Our updated Healthcare Simulation Essentials: Design and Debriefing (HSEDD) course reflects this demanding reality. With the goal of making an impact with your simulation program, participants will learn to work practically and strategically to translate simulation into gains for their learners, colleagues and organization.

To leverage your investment in this course and position your work to have the greatest impact, we will ask you to do some work before you arrive. To get buy-in and support for your program, we will help you identify a real problem that can be addressed with simulation (e.g. patient safety issues, curriculum challenges). We will then integrate your questions and challenges about how to address this organizational problem through interactive small group work.

Participants in the course can expect the exceptional educational experience that the Center for Medical Simulation is known for. Each course will feature several CMS faculty, who will work with learners in small groups to develop curriculum to guide their simulation program, to learn Debriefing with Good Judgment^©, and to design simulation courses.

We are excited to begin this new adventure in online education. We look forward to seeing you, wherever you are!