Course Details
For clinicians, educators and simulation technicians who use simulation as a teaching tool
This experiential multi-day course is taught by an interprofessional faculty and uses a predominantly experiential learning model including practice teaching with feedback and simulation activities, combined with other instructional techniques such as large and small group discussions and lectures. The course provides a strong foundation for the participants to understand how OR teams learn new behaviors; learn debriefing theory and tools; practice debriefing, and learn how to develop and run OR teamwork scenarios. Beyond simulation, participants will be able to use the debriefing skills and strategies developed during the course to improve teamwork and enhance performance in the real clinical environment. Attendees will be positioned to become champions for continued simulation training in their institutions and to strengthen the culture of safety in their operating rooms.
Program Objectives:
- Develop interprofessional educator teams to use simulation as a training medium for Operating Room Teamwork
- Enhance teamwork in the Operating Room
- Positively affect the quality of the working and safety cultures within the Operating Room
This course immerses participants in the deliberate practice of debriefing with skills acquired using Debriefing with Good Judgment©.
Topics include:
- Creating a challenging and safe learning environment
- Teaching clinical thinking and skills
- Teaching teamwork and crisis resource management
- Developing and improving debriefing skills
- Preparing, building, conducting, and debriefing realistic simulation scenarios relevant to Operating Room teams
- Avoiding simulation pitfalls and ineffective debriefing techniques
- Advancing simulation within one’s institution
Questions
If you have any questions regarding this course or would like to host this course at your institution, please Contact Us.
Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credit:
This course is sponsored by CRICO/RMF of the Harvard Medical Institutions. CRICO/Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CRICO/RMF designates this live activity for a maximum of 26.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses, Midwives, and other healthcare providers will receive a “Certificate of Attendance” with credit hours that may be converted to CEs or CEUs. Massachusetts-licensed nurses can find information about converting CME to CEU at this Mass.gov site. Nurses from other states should check with their respective State Board or credentialing body for guidance on this process.
Course Prerequisite:
We suggest that you apply for this course as part of an interprofessional team. That being said, we are aware of the challenges involved in getting team members out of the O.R. for a multi-day course, therefore we welcome partial teams and individual registrations.
If applying as part of a team please include team name (e.g. institution) and team leader name on the application.
Application Requirements:
To apply for this course, you must:
Fill out the online application form, then email the following two documents to Paul Montgomery:
- A one-page proposal for an institutional project you plan to develop during the workshop, where you: describe the current problem that your project will address, briefly describe your project, define the beneficiaries and expected accomplishments, identify the necessary resources and barriers to implementation, and describe how you will evaluate whether your project has created an improvement.
- A 1-2 page biosketch (not your complete CV) including: your goals for attending the workshop your position, specialty and professional experience; your educational background; and any educational activities over the past five years.
Questions
If you have any questions regarding pricing, payment, or our enrollment and cancellation policy, please Contact Us.
Enrollment Policy
You will be informed of acceptance to your selected course/workshop by email within two weeks of our receiving your completed application. Your tuition is due immediately upon acceptance. Once accepted you will receive another email containing an invoice with payment instructions. Please note that acceptance does not mean enrollment. Once accepted, you are placed on a wait list. You are not enrolled, and do not have a reserved seat, until we have received your full tuition. Course seats are filled in the order we receive tuition payments. Since our courses fill quickly it is important for you to send in your tuition immediately to secure a seat. Once your tuition payment is received, you will be taken off the wait list and enrolled in your desired course/workshop provided a seat is still available. If all seats in your preferred course/workshop are filled by the time we receive your tuition payment, you will be informed that it is full and given the option to remain on the wait list in the event that a seat later become available, switch to another course at a later date with available seats or receive a refund.
Cancellation Policy
If you must cancel we will refund your tuition less a processing fee provided another paid candidate is able to fill your seat. Otherwise, you will forfeit half your tuition. If you would like to switch to a course offered at a different date, we will apply your tuition toward the new course provided another paid candidate is able to fill your current seat. Otherwise, you will forfeit half your tuition. If you still want to switch to another course date we will apply half of your paid tuition and you will be billed for the remaining half. Please note that the tuition for a course offered at a later date may be higher. In that case, individuals switching to the later course date will need to pay the difference in the tuition fees.
Processing Fees
- $250 for administration and processing for Comprehensive Instructor Workshop, Operating Room Teams Instructor Course, Advanced Instructor Course participants
- $100 for administration and processing for Gateway Debriefing Skills Workshop, DASH Rater Training Workshop, Online Debriefing Skills Refresher Course and Clinical Training course participants
Payment Policy
The Center for Medical Simulation accepts payment by credit card, wire transfer, money order or cashier’s check in U.S. dollars. Personal checks are not accepted. You will be receiving an invoice via email, no paper invoices are issued. Your payment is due immediately upon receipt.
If you would like to pay by credit card, there is a link in your invoice that you can click on, or paste into a browser, that will take you to a page on our website where you can make your payment. If would like to make payment by any other method please contact Rhonda Young at
ryoung@harvardmedsim.org.
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contact us.