Aims:
This course draws from the disciplines of aviation, health care, psychology, experiential learning, and organizational behaviour to explore a variety of simulator – based teaching methods. These methods are applicable across the health profession educational spectrum, including undergraduate and graduate medical, nursing and allied health domains.

Training Methods: The course combines didactic and experiential learning with practice and feedback to focus on the use of simulation to teach critical thinking and crisis management.

Topics covered:

Principles of effective instruction
• Adult Learning
• Learning Styles
• Matching teaching style to learners’ experience levels

Procedural Skills Training
• Conducting practical skills workshops
• Integrated procedural communication skills training

Scenario-based Learning
• Pause and discuss scenarios
• Simulated problem-based learning
• Full immersion scenarios

Debriefing and Facilitation
• Facilitating group discussions
• Feedback
• Reflective debriefing
• Incorporating video playback and event making into debriefing

Curriculum Design
• Training needs analysis
• Designing courses
• Evaluating courses

Creating an effective training environment
• Writing scenarios
• Preparing learning for simulations
• Training faculty as actors in simulation
• Stage management of simulation training