In this episode of our continuing collaboration with Advances in Simulation, Victoria takes the helm and interviews two brilliant guests about a high profile, multi-journal simultaneous publication:

Raemer, D., A. Hannenberg and A. Mullen (2018). "Simulation safety first: an imperative." Advances in Simulation 3(1): 25.

Raemer, D., A. Hannenberg and A. Mullen (2018). "Simulation Safety First: An Imperative." Simulation in Healthcare 13(6).

Raemer, D., A. Hannenberg and A. Mullen (2018). "Simulation Safety First: An Imperative." Journal of Surgical Simulation(5).

It is with great pleasure that we have Dan Raemer, one of the authors of the editorial ‘Simulation Safety First. An Imperative’ as guest today. Dan Raemer has had a long career in simulation and medical education spanning almost 40 years.  He is a bioengineer by training and been a member of a surgery or anesthesiology department for his entire working life.  Dan was the Chair of the Founding Board of Overseers for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and was it’s first President.  Now in partial retirement, Dan, along with a nurse educator, Ann Mullen, and a renowned anesthesiologist, Alex Hannenberg, all from Boston, USA have started an education-oriented foundation to promote simulation safety.

We are also lucky to have Kara Allen along to discuss. Kara is an anaesthetist who in involved with inter professional simulation, including education and systems testing. She developed the CRASH and STAR courses which now run across Australia and New Zealand, helping critical care specialists navigate career transitions and return to work after leave. This has led her to work in a number of simulation settings, from stand-alone centres to simulation facilities embedded in clinical settings. 

Victoria, Dan and Kara, traverse the unintended harms from simulation and discuss the equal harms of not using simulation as a translational tool. 

If this sound familiar to Simulcast listeners, it is because Vic interviewed Ann Mullen (one of the authors of this article) back in October 2017 about hers and Dan's project, Foundations for Healthcare Simulation Safety.

So read the article, think about your simulation safety and take the pledge to improve.

https://icenetblog.royalcollege.ca/2017/12/15/simulation-and-patient-safety-a-complex-relationship/

https://healthcaresimulationsafety.org/

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