Vic speaks with Ben and two special guests about their recent papers on ‘outreach simulation’, and how they used educational courses on Paediatric resuscitation around rural and regional Qld to understand system challenges faced by these sites. The conversation illustrates the importance of program philosophy, long term relationships and systematic approaches to identifying and following up system challenges.  

Alex St-Onge-St-Hilaire is a paediatric emergency medicine physician and co-director of the simulation fellowship at KidSIM, based at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Canada. Alex recently completed a fellowship in simulation education trained with the STORK team  

Louise Dodson is a Simulation Nurse Educator with the Children’s Health Queensland STORK team. She is a paediatric emergency nurse by trade and helped develop the hospital wide simulation program at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane around 20 years ago.   

Ben Symon (as well as being a Simulcast Co-producer!)  is a simulation consultant for STORK, where he leads the fellowship program and coordinates resource and course development. 

Paediatric resuscitation in regional Queensland: A simulation informed biopsy of current system challenges. Emergency Medicine Australasia 2025 A. St‑Onge‑St‑Hilaire, B. Lawton, L. Dodson, J. Acworth, D. Hufton and B. Symon 

Outreach simulation for system improvement: a novel advocacy and reporting process. Advances in Sim 2025 A. St‑Onge‑St‑Hilaire, B. Lawton, L. Dodson, J. Acworth, D. Hufton and B. Symon 

More about STORK and their educational work here.  

Happy listening! 

Join us in Singapore next year July 16th and 17th for Simulation Reconnect. 

In this short episode, Vic is joined by Daniel Seng from Woodlands Health, who will be hosting the event in 2026. 

We welcome simulation practitioners, educators, clinical leaders and quality improvement specialists. The program features workshops and talks, with speakers from Singapore, Australia and Norway. All this in beautiful Singapore, 

To register your interest, please go https://for.sg/interestsimreconnect26 and we will reach out with more updates when registration opens. 

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, 

Happy listening 

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. 

Happy listening 

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. 

Happy listening 

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. 

Happy listening! 

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. 

Happy listening