The Center for Medical Simulation

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The Center for Medical Simulation episodes

October 29 How to Not Get Spread Too Thin | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
What’s your unique advantage? What are you most passionate about, what are you most skilled at, and what does the world you live in need?: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
When you want to have a clear voice, and to be a clear and present version of yourself in your domain, you have to align your passion with what the world around you needs. Jim Collins quoted Isaiah Berlin quoting Aesop in his book Good to Great, saying, “The fox knows many things. The hedgehog knows one big thing.” What’s your one big thing?
Workout of the week: Fill out the circles for yourself—what can you be really good at, what drives your resource engine, and what are you passionate about?
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
18 min
October 23 Adapting Yourself to the Moment | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
In March of 2020, Jenny faced a crisis when it became clear that CMS would no longer be able to support itself offering the same in-person programs it had run for 25+ years: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
This week we’re looking at two more leadership styles—the Coaching and Affiliative styles. How can leaders, especially ones facing seemingly impossible situations or questions with no clear answer, use specific styles of leadership to rally their teams, solve unsolvable problems, and move the organization forward?
Workout of the week: Observe yourself—what is your go to leadership style across the four we’ve discussed?
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
19 min
October 16 The Wrong and Right Leader for the Moment | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
How can we adapt our moves to the situations we find ourselves in? The best leaders use Situational leadership: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
This week, we’re exploring four situational leadership styles that one could use to approach the problem of: something bad is going to happen, I’m going to be in charge when it does, and my team needs to decide how to respond and then respond effectively to it.
Two of these styles will improve culture and achieve positive outcomes, while the other two are likely to (depending on your team) degrade your unit culture and lead to bad outcomes.
Workout of the week: Note your own instinctive leadership style and observe it in action—what about the situations you find yourself in benefits from this style?
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
20 min
October 09 Dr. Lia Cruz | CMS Fellowship Stories
For another highlight of our CMS Fellowship stories, we talked with Dr. Lia Cruz (DO, Pediatric Emergency Medicine).
Dr. Cruz has sinced joined the Center for Medical Simulation as our Associate Director for the CMS-ALPS consulting team!
Learn more about the CMS Fellowship program: https://harvardmedsim.org/simulation-fellowship-and-international-scholars-program/
9 min
October 02 Caring for Caretakers | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
How do we take care of ourselves in a way that allows us to bring the right leadership moves to the needs of the moment? : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
Whether it’s an identity snarl or an identity tsunami, we have to be able to lift the grip of our anger and bitterness off of our internal steering wheel and get back to a place where our actions are being driven by compassion, whether that’s compassion for ourselves (I’m going to get myself out of this situation that’s making part of me feel so angry) or others.
Workout of the week: When you feel flooded, get curious about what is driving it—listen to what that flooded part of your system tells you, and offer some compassion.
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
23 min
September 25 Why Visionary Leadership Isn’t Authoritarian | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
Instead of threats about the consequences of not staffing their clinics adequately during the holidays, a healthcare leader was persuaded to present the staffing goal as a challenge and ask for solutions from the team for how to get there: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
Many of us think of leadership as a trait that you are born with, but research increasingly shows that leadership is a series of skills you can learn, beginning with emotional intelligence. This week we’re getting you ready to articulate a visionary goal within your context, and letting others help you to achieve it.
Workout of the week: Articulate a clear “micro” vision in a group that you are working with, meaning a vision for the next 15 minutes to hour of your collective time.
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
19 min
September 18 Compassion Versus Empathy | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
Breaking eight ribs and puncturing a lung after hitting a tree in a downhill biking accident, Jenny got the coffin’s eye view of someone being completely flooded at the scene of an emergency: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
Using Name-Claim-Aim as a crisis management strategy in the moment allowed the team to down-regulate their reactions and empathy regarding an injured family member to the point that they could manage the rescue.
There is a useful distinction between empathy and compassion, which are generally used interchangeably. Feeling someone’s emotional distress or physical pain can, very intuitively, add up to total drain on our resources and capacity. However, there’s also literature around the healing power of compassion. So is compassion fatigue a problem, or is compassion a good thing?
Empathy is a ‘feeling with,’ meaning that you are experiencing some version of the same suffering as the person. Compassion, on the other hand is ‘feeling for,’ which is caring without necessarily feeling. Empathy is the detection system so that your brain can identify what it is you should feel compassion and caring for.
Workout of the week: Notice 2-3 times when you feel either empathy or compassion, or the pathway from one to the other, and note “When am I feeling with, and when am I feeling for?”
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#HCSimWeek26 #healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
16 min
September 11 Thinking Makes It So | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
Varying the narration that accompanies a situation can change the physiological way that learners experience it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
How do we reset ourselves when people come at us with intense emotions? One of Jenny’s useful reframes for herself was: when someone argues with me, that’s a good thing. When someone cares enough about a situation to get upset, a way to reframe is that they care about the situation.
Workout of the week: Find a way to reframe cognitively a situation that lets you feel less injured, angry sad, stung, etc., by something someone else has done.
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
21 min
September 04 Distanced Self-Talk | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
As we learn to manage, we have to acknowledge that defensive survival circuits are automatic, and produce immediate behavioral and physiological changes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
When we react, we know from the research that our management is not to prevent reactions, but rather what we do AFTER we react. We have to reset ourselves and repair whatever happened during the reaction. Deep breaths, half-smiles (reset of the facial muscles), and instructional self-talk work best--in Jenny’s case, the instruction is “use the skills you have” when you’re wanting to fight or freeze. It should also say “you”, or your name, rather than “I.”
Workout of the week: Give yourself an instructional mantra that will work for you when you come to difficult situations. Jenny’s version is “use the skills you have.”
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
17 min
August 28 Knocked Off Your "A" Game | Curious Now 51
Little and big glitches both can knock you out of inhabiting your best self when you least expect it. Stress about her daughter’s upcoming wedding burst out in an unexpected way in Jenny’s morning huddle: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
What makes us bring up the fists and start fighting, or as Jenny puts is, releases her inner magpie when her jewels are threatened? Becoming aware of what are those things that trigger us—that perhaps unleash an “identity snarl”—is the first step towards self-awareness.
Workout of the week: Catch your glitches when they drive by—what are those people, places, and events that trigger you?
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
14 min

About The Center for Medical Simulation

From the publisher's feed

A nurse preceptor has just watched a trainee commit a serious error despite hours of lecture, reading, and hands on training. In spite of herself, she starts to heat up, much like the more severe clinical educators who trained her years ago. “Why can’t you just get this right?”

An ICU attending asks her resident to call her if a patient’s hematocrit drops under a certain value. Despite this agreement, and despite the patient deteriorating, the resident never calls. “Are you an idiot? Why didn’t you call me?”

In these moments, how do we reset ourself to a place of care, curiosity, and compassion? How do we model a better culture of learning? How do we have our judgment, instead of our judgment having us?

In “Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph,” a social scientist takes on the hidden structures that shape our behavior, culture, communication, and learning in healthcare.

In this interactive podcast, Jenny Rudolph, PhD, FSSH, will help listeners approach the thoughts, feelings, and judgments underlying their reactions in a psychologically safer manner, helping us to better connect with curiosity and compassion to the people around us, especially when we feel that they’ve done something “wrong.” This podcast will include weekly challenges to examine your own thinking, including follow-up with listeners and experts about their experience on the journey to Good Judgment.

Jenny Rudolph has made a career exploring what makes clinicians, healthcare organizations, and health professions training programs tick. Underneath the surface of intelligent, capable people who care about doing their best are hidden patterns that interfere with how they perform. Hierarchy, ego, communication glitches, resilience, power, professional learning, and how learning happens all flow downstream into creating actions that work and actions that don’t.

Jenny found out the hard way that being too certain can get you in trouble. Demoted from third to second grade for poor academic performance when she arrived in Jaipur, India as an eight-year-old, she realized she had better get curious about how her new school and culture ran, and that curiosity has remained with her ever since.

Jenny now works with clinicians around the world to help them develop their own love of that little dopamine drip of rewarding surprise when you find out something new about your colleagues and how they think. Whether trying to figure out a diagnosis, discovering what a learner is thinking, or upping your own clinical mastery, getting Curious Now is the solution.

Curious Now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP?si=890ed4b02bfe4838

Curious Now on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822

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Founded in 1993, the Center for Medical Simulation was one of the world's first healthcare simulation centers and continues to be a global leader in the field. Simulation training at CMS gives healthcare providers a new and enlightening perspective on how to handle real medical situations. Through high-fidelity scenarios that simulate genuine crisis management situations, the CMS experience can open new chapters in the level of healthcare quality that participants provide. Find out more and apply for CMS simulation workshops at www.harvardmedsim.org.