Join us for the October edition of the Simulcast Journal Club, hosted by Vic Brazil and Ben Symon. In this episode: AI in simulation, simulation reducing sick leave, calculating the cost of simulation, and simulation based toolkits to address hospital acquired conditions.  

The October papers 

 Cheng A, McGregor C. Applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare simulation: a model of thinking. Advances in Simulation. 2025;10:45. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41077-025-00379-7  

Schram AL, Bonne NL, Henriksen TB, Hertel NT, Petersen PG, Bjerrum MC, et al. Effect of simulation-based team training on sick leave among healthcare professionals: a multisite controlled follow-up study. Journal of Healthcare Simulation. 2025 Sep 3. https://doi.org/10.54531/XCVT3140 

 Verhoeff TL, Janssen JJHM, Röell AE, Hoff RG. The surprising costs of on-site surgical team CRM training: a Dutch example analyzed. Advances in Simulation. 2025;10:37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41077-025-00367-x  

Barker LT, Bond WF, Willemsen-Dunlap AM, Cooley KL, McGarvey JS, Ruger RL, et al. Simulation-Debriefing Enhanced Needs Assessment to address quality markers in health care: an innovation for prospective hazard analysis. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2025;51:144–158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjq.2024.10.004  

Another great month on Simulcast. 

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How do we demonstrate the value of what we do in healthcare simulation? 

This question prompted Lisa Barker and a stellar author team to develop a new model for thinking about value in simulation. They present that model - and the thinking behind it - in Value-based simulation in healthcare: a new model for metrics reporting, recently published in Advances in Simulation. They authors describe their article as “.. designed to support simulation teams and organizational leaders in selecting relevant measurement strategies, aligning simulation work with institutional goals, and co-creating metrics that are operationally meaningful.” 

In this Simulcast/ Advances episode, Vic speaks with Lisa Barker and two of her co-authors; Ben Symon and Katie Walker. Our conversation started with a look back at the challenge of measuring and demonstrating value from simulation activities, and a timeline summary of how this issue has been approached over the last 25 years.  We then parse the value-based simulation in healthcare (VBSH) model, comprising six distinct but interdependent categories: Service Products, Program Perceptions, Acquired Expertise, Workplace Performance, System Benefit, and Value Analyses. Lisa, Ben and Katie leave us with some final thoughts as to how this might be applied in practice and offer some speculation about future work on value in healthcare simulation. 

Some of the many references to background literature in our conversation included: 

Barsuk JH, McGaghie WC, Cohen ER, Balachandran JS, Wayne DB. Use of simulation-based mastery learning to improve the quality of central venous catheter placement in a medical intensive care unit. J Hosp Med. 2009 Sep;4(7):397-403. 

Nestel D, Brazil V, Hay M. You can't put a value on that… Or can you? Economic evaluation in simulation-based medical education. Med Educ. 2018 Feb;52(2):139-141. 

Varpio L, Sherbino J. Demonstrating causality, bestowing honours, and contributing to the arms race: threats to the sustainability of HPE research. Med Educ. 2023;58(1):1–7 

Barker L. et al, Simulation-Debriefing Enhanced Needs Assessment to Address Quality Markers in Health Care: An Innovation for Prospective Hazard Analysis, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Volume 51, Issue 2, 2025, 

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Join us for the September edition of the Simulcast Journal Club, hosted by Vic Brazil and Ben Symon. In this episode: Adapting simulating across cultural contexts, ‘Choosing Wisely’ for sensible sim, Video assisted simulation reflection – for teachers!, and simulation in Italy.   

And HOT OFF THE PRESS… 

The AMEE conference Simulation Journal Club was on last week. We reviewed the 4 shortlisted papers on Simulcast with Rune Del Jessen and Gabe Reedy a few weeks ago. The event went well, with standing room only at the presentation of papers in Barcelona. And the winner is … 

 “I Hate Sim!”—Using psychotherapeutic concepts to help educators attend to challenging states of mind during simulation prebriefs.by Drake G, Drewek K.  

Congratulations! 

The September papers 

Charnetski MD, Asoodar M, Wawersik D, van Mook W. Navigating cultural landscapes: a thematic analysis of home faculty experiences in transborder simulation curriculum development and adaptation. BMC Med Educ. 2025;25:888.  

Monteiro S, Sibbald M, Beecroft J, Bhanji F, Caners K, Chen R, et al. Choosing wisely for simulation-based learning in health professions education. Med Sci Educ. 2025.  

Levin O. ‘Reflecting on every move’: the role of video in simulation-based learning for teacher education. Eur J Teach Educ. 2025.  

Ingrassia PL, Barelli A, Benedetti E, Bressan S, Carenzo L, D’Agostino F, et al. A national position paper for the strategic development of healthcare simulation in Italy. J Patient Saf. 2025.  

Another great month on Simulcast. 

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Join us for the August edition of the Simulcast Journal Club, recorded live at the Australasian Simulation Congress 2025 in Adelaide:  

Vic was joined by guest Adam Montagu , Ellen Davies and Parick Frost to discuss two papers relevant to the work being done at Adelaide Health Simulation 

Davies, E., Crawford, L., Crawford, T. et al. Capturing and cultivating the simulated patient/participant (SP) experience: a qualitative study exploring how the perspectives of SPs can inform the co-production of an orientation resource guide. Adv Simul 10, 14 (2025) 

Davies, E., Montagu, A. & Brazil, V. Recommendations for embedding simulation in health services. Adv Simul 8, 23 (2023). 

Some upcoming conferences and courses 

Another great month on Simulcast. 

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Moving hospitals? How can simulation help? 

In the latest of our collaborative episodes with Advances in Simulation, Vic interviews Nathan Oliver about his recent article:  

Oliver, N., Twentyman, K. & Howie, K. ‘Everybody’s voice is important’: using translational simulation as a component of change management. Adv Simul 10, 38 (2025). 

Nathan and team were asked to support the transition to a new hospital in Scotland. They took a very human centred approach, and we discussed Laura Rock’s adage to ‘not answer feelings with facts’ when considering staff anxieties about change. They drew upon Bartenuk’s work to orient their thinking about how change was experienced at the individual level, beyond simply measuring resistance or readiness. 

The simulation strategy, design, delivery and debriefing were guided by Nickson’s IPO model. 

Among many interesting elements, we reflected on the process of Systems focused debriefing, including some great work in this area by others. 

We discussed data strategies for translational simulation, and the challenges of generating actionable insights from translational simulation. 

One other interesting aspect was one of the data collection methods, using post it notes to capture ‘in the moment’ feelings. 

Nathan was also generous with his shout-outs to collaborators in the simulation and the scholarship of this project, including Simon Edgar, Dan Hufton, Vicky Tallentire and of course his co-authors Kathryn Twentyman and Katie Howie. Congratulations to Nathan and the team. 

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Join us for the July edition of the Simulcast Journal Club, hosted by Vic Brazil and Ben Symon. In this episode: Interprofessional Co-debriefing, AI for scenario design and for supporting sim debriefings, and some SESAM abstracts! 

Also – some upcoming conferences 

Australasian Simulation Congress (Adelaide 11-14 August) https://simaust.com/australasian-simulation-congress/ 

VSA Translational SIMposium (Northern Health 17 October) 

https://vicsim.org/component/eventbooking/vsa-event/victorian-translational-simposium 

The July papers 

Joyce LR, Meeks M, Somerville SG. Interprofessional co-debriefing in simulation—role modeling collaboration: a qualitative study. Simul Healthc. 2025;00(00):1–9.  

Hong E, et al. Exploring the use of a large language model in simulation debriefing: an observational simulation-based pilot study. Simul Healthc. 2025;00(00):1–6.  

Maaz S, et al. Prompt design and comparing large language models for healthcare simulation case scenarios. J Healthc Simul. 2025 May 12. 

 Selected Abstracts from the Annual Meeting of SESAM - the Society for Simulation in Europe, 2025. Adv Simul 10 (Suppl 1), 35 (2025). 

Another great month on Simulcast. 

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In this special episode, Vic is joined by Rune Dall Jensen and Gabriel Reedy to preview the AMEE Simulation Committee journal club session. This is an annual event held each year at the AMEE (International Association for Health Professions Education) conference; this year in Barcelona Spain on 23rd – 27th August. 

Rune and Gabe tell us about the event, the way papers are selected, and then preview the top 4 that will be presented at the event. For AMEE 2025 registration – link here 

The papers: - 

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Join us for the June edition of the Simulcast Journal Club, hosted by Vic Brazil and Ben Symon. In this episode: Embedded participants in simulation, publishing study protocols, improving research study enrolment through simulation, and improving sustainability in simulation (and in healthcare. (Oh and Ben has started a Taryn Taylor fan club….) 

The papers 

Another great month on Simulcast. 

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Join us for the May edition of the Simulcast Journal Club, hosted by Vic Brazil and Ben Symon. In this episode: Cracking the debriefing approach for embracing complexity adaptive systems, psychological safety as gardening, ethical AI in academic writing, and medical students practising IV cannulas on each other…    

The papers 

Amorøe TN et al. Resilience-focused debriefing: addressing complexity in interprofessional simulation-based education—a design-based research study. Adv Simul. 2025; 10:25.  

Nestel D, et al. ‘Tending’ the ‘garden’ of psychological safety in simulation-based education. J Healthc Simul. 2025 Apr 21.  

Cheng A, et al. Artificial intelligence-assisted academic writing: recommendations for ethical use. Adv Simul. 2025;10:22.  

Kiernan R, et al. Medical students' preferences on practicing intravenous insertion on each other and via simulation. Simul Healthc. 2025 Apr;20(2):129–135.  

Another great month on Simulcast. 

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Ever wondered if we should have tested the new hospital space before moving in? Thinking that new piece of equipment won’t work for your current workflow? Want to implement a new checklist but not sure if it will work? 

In this episode Vic and Ben speak with Andrew Petrosoniak and Christopher Hicks from Advanced Performance. Chris and Petro are both emergency physicians who have built an impressive repertoire of using simulation to explore and improve performance of team, systems and spaces in healthcare. 

Our conversation is wide ranging, offering perspectives on why this use of simulation is still relatively limited, as well as how the processes for this technique are evolving. 

We talked about design thinking and simulation, the use of framework analysis, the Macleamy curve, and the concepts of ROI for this work. 

Ben shared his favourite book on design principles. We referred to some other excellent podcasts including Paul Phrampus talking about connecting with hospital executives on One Million Lives, and our own episode of Simulcast discussing Nora Colman’s paper saving $90 million testing a hospital before it was built. 

Lots more on the Advanced Performance website. 

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