Vision
A group of individuals working together to improve patient safety and provide high quality educational experiences in Medical Simulation.
Immediate Goals
- To standardize an Emergency Medicine Simulation Curriculum for medical trainees across the province.
- Create an library of innovative and effective case scenarios.
- To promote education about simulation to other faculty members and to help faculty development with feedback and debriefing skills. To build a core of clinical teachers dedicated to further developing Simulation as an educational tool.
- To collaborate with other Medical Simulation Groups in BC.
Long Term Goals
- To create excellent educational experiences using a high fidelity simulator to enhance clinical knowledge, procedural skills and principles of Crisis Resource Management in Emergency Medicine.
- Collaborate with other specialties such as critical care, anesthesia and pediatrics.
- Design high quality interdisciplinary educational experiences with respiratory therapy and nursing.
- Encourage and promote opportunities for simulation outside of major academic centres.
- Develop and support faculty and residents in Simulation Research.
- To support a team of learners, nurses, and physicians to compete in the the CAEP Simulation Olympiad.
Contact
Jeanne Macleod | jeanne.macleod@vch.ca