In this episode, Jen Arnold (@JenArnoldMD) shares her experiences with implementing a clinical debriefing program, with foundational elements drawn from the local simulation program. Challenges and practical tips are provided for those looking to integrate debriefing as part of clinical care.  Recent articles by Kessler et al1 and Mullan et al2 provide further detail on how to achieve success with clinical debriefing programs.

E005: Clinical Debriefing

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During this podcast, Walter interviews Jan Schmutz, PhD, a team psychologist and researcher from ETH Zurich in Switzerland. They discuss their recent paper in Academic Medicine in which they present a novel conceptual framework for team reflexivity (TR) in healthcare, and how TR can impact both patient care and learning. TR refers to how teams reflect together about goals, processes, and strategies to improve current and future performance. While team reflection after an event--i.e. debriefing--will be well-known to listeners, Jan and Walter discuss opportunities for TR both BEFORE and DURING patient care events, especially those that are highly dynamic and evolve rapidly.  Examples would be a team huddle before a major trauma patient arrives in the ED or performing a quick recap and/or evaluation of ongoing patient care to make sure the team is on the same page and not missing anything important. Jan and Walter highlight how opportunities for TR can form the basis of 'what to debrief' to help teams improve in subsequent events.

E010: Team Reflexivity

In this podcast, Vinay Nadkarni joins Adam Cheng to discuss clinical debriefing and the importance of quantitative data to inform the debriefing process.  Dr. Nadkarni reflects on the robust post-cardiac arrest debriefing program that has been established in his own institution, and discusses the key ingredients for improving patient outcomes. References  1. Edelson D, Litzinger B, Arora V, et al. Improving in-hospital cardiac arrest process and outcomes with performance debriefing. Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(10):1063-1069. 2. Wolfe H, Zebuhr C, Topjian A, et al. Interdisciplinary ICU cardiac arrest debriefing improves survival outcomes*. Crit Care Med. 2014;42(7):1688-1695. 3. Kessler D, Cheng A, Mullan P. Debriefing in the emergency department after clinical events: a practical guide. Ann Emerg Med. 2015;65(6):690-698. 

E008: Data-Driven Clinical Debriefing

In-situ simulation was long thought to be the place where simulation had to take place if you weren’t lucky enough to have a dedicated center. It is often fraught with the difficulties of scheduling at inconvenient times for the learners and the frequency of last-minute cancellations based on shifting space and learner availabilities. There are also several key safety considerations with the blending of real and simulated equipment. However, there has also been emerging recognition of the true value of in-situ simulation in the training of clinical providers in their own environment, with their own teams, and in their own systems. It allows for a more formal evaluation of space, equipment, and systems, including the discovery of latent patient safety threats. In this podcast, Dr. Glenn Posner of the University of Ottawa introduces us to their program of hospital-wide in-situ simulation, and specific debriefing considerations relating to an in-situ program.  

E007: In-situ Simulation

In this pod cast, debrief2learn editors Vincent Grant and Adam Cheng interview Mary Fey regarding issues related to the faculty development of simulation educators.1,2 Mary shares the results of her PhD work on debriefing faculty development, and shares novel ideas for how to teach debriefing skills to the next generation of simulation educators. References 1. Cheng A, Grant V, Dieckmann P, Arora S, Robinson T, Eppich W. Faculty Development for Simulation Programs. Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. 2015;10(4):217-222. doi: 10.1097/sih.0000000000000090 2. INACSL Standards of Best Practice: SimulationSM Debriefing. Clinical Simulation in Nursing. 2016;12:S21-S25. doi: 10.1016/j.ecns.2016.09.008

E005: Clinical Debriefing

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