This course is for internal participants only, as identified by Montana State University. The August 5-9, 2024 course will only be offered online from 8:00AM to 4:00PM US Mountain time. View the course start time in your local time zone. Please contact us with any questions or concerns.

Led by some of the world’s leading simulation educators, the Healthcare Simulation Essentials: Design and Debriefing (HSEDD) course is the Center for Medical Simulation’s (CMS) flagship faculty development course. Featuring CMS’ Debriefing with Good Judgment ® and SimZones approaches, the course prepares simulation program leaders and instructors to position simulation to solve real problems in healthcare organizations and health profession schools. Attendees can expect the Center for Medical Simulation’s well-known transformational educational experience provided by a team of the world’s leading simulation experts with diverse expertise and backgrounds.

To leverage attendees investment in this course and position attendees’ work to have the greatest sustainable impact, we ask attendees to do some work before the course begins. We ask attendees to speak with at least one key partner in their organization to identify a problem that can be addressed with simulation (e.g. patient safety issues, curriculum challenges). In the course, we will then work with each attendee in immersive small groups to design simulation curriculum using our proven methods, as well as practice Debriefing with Good Judgment©.

Course Readiness Goals

• Co-create a strategic plan with partners to make a sustainable impact with simulation
• Build a challenging and safe learning environment
• Design, conduct, and debrief simulations across the SimZones
• Conduct and debrief interprofessional simulation scenarios with high learner engagement
• Apply the “With Good Judgment” approach to change behavior
• Thrive as an educator and change agent

Format:

The course will take place over 5 consecutive days. It is our experience that this intense course is best accomplished via continuous, individualized mentoring from both highly experienced CMS faculty, as well as from peers in the course. The course interweaves discussions, immersive practice with feedback and reflections. Participants will facilitate prebriefings and debriefings and receive coaching and feedback from leading debriefing experts.

Technology Requirements

This online course is delivered via Zoom, a web conferencing platform, and the CMS Virtual Campus, a learning management system. All materials and course interactions will occur online. To participate in this course, each individual – even if they are attending the course with a colleague from the same institution – needs:

• Their own computer (desktop or laptop). Sharing a computer limits the ability to interact. There will be many instances where we will break out into different rooms in Zoom. Tablets and mobile phones do not allow full engagement to complete the course.
• Reliable high-speed internet access (minimum 3 Mbps upload/download speed). Wired internet access is much preferred; wireless internet access is less likely to work well.
• Their own computer headset (microphone and earphones)
• Webcam
• Zoom Desktop Client installed on their computer
  We recommend downloading and installing the Zoom Desktop Client on the computer used for the course for full functionality.
• Their own space away from others because conversations from nearby colleagues can interfere with the course audio. This course should be completed in a space not shared with others.