27/4 – 28/4/26
8:30am – 5pm
Sydney Clinical Skills & Simulation Centre
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