SimTecT 2006 Healthcare Simulation Conference (as at 9 September 2006)
Monday 11 September 2006
Pre – Conference Workshops
9.00am – 5.00pm / Room: Education Centre, Seminar Room 1Strategies for Teaching Non-Technical skills (NTS): New Perspectives
Paul Preston, Matthew Thomas, Adrian Rowland, Leonie Watterson and Brendan Flanagan
9.00am – 5.00pm / Room: Education Centre, Seminar Room 2
When People Meet Systems: The Role of Simulation
Len Gray and Geoff McDonnell
Tuesday 12 September 2006
Times
8.30am – 8.45am / Room: Education Centre, AuditoriumOfficial Opening and Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners
Professor Stephen Duckett, Executive Director of the Reform and Development Division, Queensland Health
8.45am – 10.30ma / Room: Education Centre, Auditorium
Chair: Brendan Flanagan
Plenary Session 1
Patient Safety and Simulation: Still in the Box?
1.The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare: Our Priorities and Strategies – Dr Diana Horvath
2. Medical Error and Culture: Integrating Simulation into Hospital Patient Safety Programs – Paul Preston
3. Simulation Training: Surely We’re Ready? – Bonnie Driggers
4. Patient Safety Initiatives – Does Simulation Have a Role? – Bill Runciman
Question Panel
10.30am – 11.00am / Morning Tea
11.00am – 12.30pm / Concurrent Sessions
Room: Education Centre, Auditorium
Chair: Michelle Kelly
Free Papers Session
Patient Safety – Key Themes
1. Attitudes to safety and teamwork in the operating theatre, and the effects of a program of simulation based team training - Stuart Marshall, Brendan Flanagan, Michele Joseph and Michael Bujor
2. The use of multimedia to improve patient consent in orthopaedic surgery - Andrew Beischer, Damian Clayton-Platt, Andrei Cornoiu, Richard De Steiger, Leo Donnan and Martin Richardson
3. Engaging rural practitioners in anaesthesia simulation - Stuart Marshall, Andrew Haughton, Brendan Flanagan and Peter Keas
4. Simulation and ESL students - creating a win - win - Moira Kelton
5. Rehabilitation for the over-resuscitated Simman: healthcare simulations in cardio-respiratory physiotherapy - Peter Thomas and Katie Walker
6. Teamwork factors and non-technical errors during simulated cardiac arrests - Claire Chinnery and Elaine Chapman / Room: Skills Development Centre, L4CPR & Airways Lab
Workshop 1
Laerdal Practical Moulage
Facilitator: Tracey Beacroft, Laerdal
(numbers limited)
Demonstrates trauma moulage methods to enhance scenario realism. Participants practice hands-on using the provided gelatin products, trauma make-up and Practoplast wounds.
/ Room: Skills Development Centre, L4Surgical Skills Lab
Workshop 2
RACS Fundamentals of Laparoscopy Skills Course
Facilitator: Chris Pyke
The RACS, QHSDC and the SAGE group are conducting a 12 month pilot of a laparoscopic surgical skills training program using the SAGE methodology. The program will be demonstrated and discussed including program structure, assessment and certification process and validation. / Room: Education Centre, Seminar Room 1
Workshop 3
Teaching Effectively with the Harvey Simulator
Facilitator: Ross Scalese
Targets clinical tutors teaching health professionals cardiac assessment skills. A background on the Best Evidence in Medical Education project will be presented plus practical instruction in preparing and delivering tutorials for different learner groups.
12.30pm – 1.30pm / Lunch
Poster Sessions
1.00pm: Presentation: Management of Emergencies Simulation Course (MESC) – A Collaborative Endeavour Between Clinicians and Educators
Debbie Paltridge, Andrew Dent, Martin Sweeney and Tim Gray
1.30pm – 3.00pm / Concurrent Sessions
Room: Education Centre, Auditorium
Chair: Denise Dignam
Free Papers Session
Surgical Simulation and New Technologies
1. Mediseus epidural: full-procedure training simulator for epidural analgesia in labour - Zorana Mayooran, Leonie Watterson, Paul Withers, Jason Line, Winnie Arnett and Ross Horley
2. Networked virtual surgery of the temporal bone: transference of surgical knowledge and skill - Stephen O'Leary, Matthew Hutchins, Chris Gunn, Alexander Krumholz, Brian Pyman, Gregor Kennedy, Michael Tykocinski and Duncan Stevenson
3. The integration of physiology models with avatars to expand the opportunities for high fidelity medical training - Laura Kusumoto, David Shorrock, Leroy Heinrichs, Parvati Dev, Pat Youngblood and Sakti Srivastava
4. Multimedia clinical skills trainer for laparoscopic appendectomy - Richard Bloxham, George Oosthuizen and John Windsor
5. A simple method of applying haptic properties to deformable graphical models in the context of surgery simulators - Ryan McColl, Ian Brown, Cory Seligman, Fabian Lim and Amer Alsaraira6. 3D haptic needle insertion simulator utilising an agent based spherical voxel model - James Mullins, Hieu Trinh and Saeid Nahavandi / Room: Skills Development Centre, L4
CPR & Airways Lab
Workshop 1 (Repeat of morning)
Laerdal Practical Moulage
Facilitator: Tracey Beacroft, Laerdal
(numbers limited)
Demonstrates trauma moulage methods to enhance scenario realism. Participants practice hands-on using the provided gelatin products, trauma make-up and Practoplast wounds. / Room: Skills Development Centre, L5
David Gaba
Workshop 4
Setting up and Running a Skills Centre
Facilitators: Katie Walker and Cate McIntosh
Targets people developing centres and training programs Addresses operational aspects including staffing, scheduling, funding, faculty development. Provides a range of perspectives including large and smaller units. / Room: Education Centre, Seminar Room 1
Workshop 5
Assessment of Competency Using Simulation in OSCEs
Facilitators: Ross Scalese and Stephanie O’Regan
Targets medical educators especially those designing assessments for medical students but broadly relevant. Addresses role of checklist and global assessment and provides practical demonstration using Harvey and SIMMAN for cardiac assessment and resuscitation skills assessment respectively.
3.00pm – 3.30pm / Afternoon Tea
3.30pm – 5.00pm / Room: Education Centre, Auditorium
Chair: Pat Cregan
Plenary Session 2
Integrating Simulation into Health and Professional Curricula
1. Development of a Simulation Curriculum: Lessons from the Asset Course– Iain Skinner
2. Simulation…Into the Future with Surgical Training – Russell Stitz
3. Advances in Simulation Technology – Sébastien Ourselin, CSIRO
5.15pm – 7.00pm / Networking Drinks
Wednesday 13 September 2006
Times
9.00am – 10.30am / Room: Education Centre, AuditoriumChair: Leonie Watterson
Plenary Session 3
Human Factors in Simulation
1.Research in Patient Safety: Developing a Strategy for Simulation Research – Peter Cameron
2. Human Factors in Healthcare: Simulation Challenges – Penny Sanderson
3. Fatigue in Health Professionals – Matthew Thomas
10.30am – 11.00am / Morning Tea
11.00am – 12.30pm / Room: Education Centre, Auditorium
Chair: Geoff McDonnell
Free Papers Session
Policy and Systems Factors
1. Communication in the operating suite: a survey of Western Australian anaesthetists - Kevin N Elks and Richard H Riley
2. Keeping them keen when things are lean, trainer recruitment and retention - Tess Vawser and Debbie Paltridge
3. Systems simulation: how it can help us to understand the impact of health information systems - Andrew Georgiou and Geoff McDonnell
4. Using accident models to design safe electronic medication management systems - Farah Magrabi, Geoff McDonnell, Johanna I. Westbrook and Enrico W. Coiera
5. Da SIMMAN code – unlocking the potential of trauma resuscitation software through simulation-based acceptance testing - Nathan Farrow, Angela Murray, Pamela Scicluna, Mark Fitzgerald and Adam Bystryzcki
6. E-learning integrated with clinicians - Niall Higgins / Room: Education Centre, Seminar Room 1Chair: Leonie Watterson
Workshop 6
Ask the Experts – Research I am Trying to do
Facilitators: Peter Cameron, Ross Scalese and Matthew Thomas
1. A Method To Evaluate Patient Simulators In Clinical Education
Anne Jones and Lorraine Sheppard
2. Development of a Health Facility Research Laboratory to investigate physical design and related operational issues in a current and future context
Steven Tipper, Jane Carthey and Tim Earnshaw
3. Integrating Simulation into an Undergraduate Curriculum: Medical Student Pilot Program. Does Simulation-Based Training Enhance Understanding of Management of Common Maternal Crises?
Jeff Hoskins, Cate McIntosh, Ian Symonds and Andy Woods
/ Room: Skills Development Centre, L5, Ray PageWorkshop 7
Obstetric Crisis Resource Management
Facilitator: Pauline Lyon, QLD Patient Safety Centre
This session includes an overview of the development of a CRM program for staff working in an environment of "normality" eg: Birth Suite.
Participants will be able to view one of MaCRM's scenarios and take part in a discussion re the capacity for similar applications in their fields of expertise.
/ Room: Education Centre, Seminar Room 2Workshop 8
Designing Simulation – Based Training Program
Facilitator: Bonnie Driggers
This workshop targets educators responsible for curriculum and program development. Participants will have opportunity to interact in a small group and discuss these topics utilizing the considerable practical experience of the facilitator.
12.30pm – 1.30pm / LunchHuman Patient Simulation: Riding the Wave to Patient Safety – Ronald Carovano, METI
1.30pm – 3.00pm / Concurrent Sessions
Room: Education Centre, Auditorium
Chair: Michelle Kelly
Free Papers Session
Education and Training
1. A comparison of three simulation-based training methods for managing medical emergencies - Harry Owen, Val Follows, John Plummer and Bruce Mugford
2. Practice and culture, the use of simulation to enhance knowledge of both - Julian Van Dijk
3. Simulated advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) sessions to improve interdisciplinary teamwork of ICU nursing and medical staff - Sue Brack and Dave Pilcher
4. The use of high fidelity patient simulation in nursing - Troy McNeill, Sandra West and Tracey Thornley
5. Learners in the control room! - A transformative simulation teaching strategy - Bernice Tatton
6. Moving mandatory education for nurses into the new millennium - Belinda Purvis / Room: Skills Development Centre, L5David Gaba
Workshop 9
Developing an Orientation program for Simulation Workers
Facilitator: Rob Stewart
This workshop will utilize participant’s knowledge, ideas and experience within the simulation industry to create an orientation framework for staff entering the health care simulation field. / Room: Education Centre, Seminar 1
Workshop 10
Introduction to Systems Simulation in Patient Safety
Facilitators: Geoff McDonnell and Graham Beaumont
Targets people interested in systems safety issues. The workshop provides an introduction to the topic and outlines a strategy for health care. / Room: Education Centre, Seminar Room 2
Workshop 11
Teaching and Assessing Non-Technical Skills
Facilitator: Adrian Rowland
Uses the aviation (NOTECH) NTS framework to introduce participants to behavioural assessment. Participants practice assessment with NOTECH tools and apply principles to their own health care domains.
3.00pm – 3.30pm / Afternoon Tea
3.30pm – 5.00pm / Room: Education Centre, Auditorium
Chair: Brendan Flanagan
Meeting of the Australian Healthcare Simulation Society
7.30pm – 11.00pm / Conference Dinner
Thursday 14 September 2006
Times
9.00am – 10.30am / Room: Education Centre, AuditoriumChair: Katie Walker
Plenary Session 4
The Practitioner’s View
1. What’s in a Story: Designing Effective Scenarios – Leonie Watterson
2. What Works, What Doesn’t – Paul Preston
3. Simulation in Training as an Adjunct to Ward-Based Learning – Bonnie Driggers
10.30am – 11.00am / Morning Tea
11.00am – 12.30pm / Room: Education Centre, Auditorium
Chair: Graham Beaumont
Plenary Session 5
Safe Systems
1. Simulation and Communication: The National Open Disclosure Pilot Project – John Wakefield
2. New Perspectives in Aviation Systems Safety: Lessons for Healthcare – Adrian Rowland
3. Introducing Patient and Systems Safety into an Undergraduate Medical Curriculum – Julia Harrison
12.30pm – 1.30pm / Conference Closes with Lunch