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🧠 Psychological safety in simulation-based learning 🧠A new correlational study explores how nursing students’ intrinsic ...
21/12/2025

🧠 Psychological safety in simulation-based learning 🧠

A new correlational study explores how nursing students’ intrinsic characteristics influence their sense of psychological safety during simulation. While demographics showed no significant impact, several internal factors did:

✨ Higher self-compassion = greater psychological safety
✨ Higher resilience = greater psychological safety
✨ Higher anxiety sensitivity = lower psychological safety

These findings highlight the need for educators to recognise the inner experiences learners bring into the simulation room, and design strategies that foster safety, confidence, and support.

Read the full absract here: https://journals.lww.com/simulationinhealthcare/abstract/2025/02000/intrinsic_factors_and_psychological_safety_among.1.aspx?context=featuredarticles&collectionid=2

19/12/2025

Are you making a judgement from your high horse?

Georgina Poole discusses awareness of the things happening today - the micro-adaptations - that you can learn from to mitigate the risk of an adverse event happening tomorrow.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments 👇

🌏 Check out our list of simulation conferences in 2026 🌏Add these conferences to your calendar now so you can prioritise...
19/12/2025

🌏 Check out our list of simulation conferences in 2026 🌏

Add these conferences to your calendar now so you can prioritise simulation next year. Here are a few upcoming events happening around the world next year:

📅 10-14 January - IMSH Society for Simulation in Healthcare
📍 San Antonio, Texas, USA
Unbound. Register here: https://imsh2026.org/

📅 9-11 March - International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
📍 Oslo, Norway
When health and care improvers meet. Register here: https://internationalforum.bmj.com/oslo/

📅 17-19 June - SESAM
📍 Lyon, France
Celebrating the diverse community of healthcare simulation. Register here: https://www.sesam-web.org/events/event/sesam-lyon-2026/

Check out our website for the full list, or check in on socials each month to hear about upcoming simulation events near you.

📌 Poster Highlight - 2025 Victorian SIMposiumThis poster from the Victorian Heart Hospital showcases a pilot project usi...
18/12/2025

📌 Poster Highlight - 2025 Victorian SIMposium

This poster from the Victorian Heart Hospital showcases a pilot project using translational simulation to evaluate and strengthen systems for High Acuity, Low Occurrence (HALO) events in the operating theatre.

Through co-designed scenarios, protected-time simulations, and full multidisciplinary involvement, the team identified real, system-level improvements - from clearer escalation pathways to better understanding of Massive Transfusion Protocol workflows and equipment readiness.

With strong leadership support and growing staff demand, this work highlights how translational simulation can drive Safety-II thinking, improve teamwork, and enhance crisis performance across complex cardiac environments.

🎥 New for VSA Subscribers!Eve Purdy’s keynote presentation - The culture lab: Simulation as a tool for team transformati...
18/12/2025

🎥 New for VSA Subscribers!

Eve Purdy’s keynote presentation - The culture lab: Simulation as a tool for team transformation - from the 2025 Victorian Translational SIMposium is now live on the VSA website. A must-watch on teamwork, culture and learning from real clinical practice.

Explore the resource in the VSA Resource Library: https://vicsim.org.au/resources/simulation-resources/scenarios

🎮 Productive struggle in simulation design 🎮This essay introduces productive struggle as a powerful lens for designing s...
17/12/2025

🎮 Productive struggle in simulation design 🎮

This essay introduces productive struggle as a powerful lens for designing simulation-based education that is both emotionally and intellectually engaging. Rather than eliminating difficulty, it explores how well-designed challenge, uncertainty and even failure can deepen learning and support adaptive expertise.

Key takeaways include:
✨ Using productive struggle to develop adaptive expertise, not just routine competence
✨ Designing scenarios with ambiguity, non-linear decision points and “grey zones”
✨ Pairing challenge with psychological safety, reflective practice and skilled debriefing

Read the full article here: https://www.johs.org.uk/article/doi/10.54531/SSXC2439

17/12/2025

ROI helps change our systems.

A/Prof Andrew Petrosoniak discusses money and patient care as the key drivers for change at an executive level.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments 👇

Have you listened to this November Simulcast Journal Club podcast?In this episode they discussed:👉 Sense of presence in ...
12/12/2025

Have you listened to this November Simulcast Journal Club podcast?

In this episode they discussed:

👉 Sense of presence in simulation
👉 Connecting human factors and translational simulation
👉 Positive deviants in in-situ simulation
👉 Students portraying patients in simulation
👉 And stats, stats, stats...

You can listen to the entire episode here: https://simulationpodcast.com/216-simulcast-journal-club-november-2025/

Not all simulation requires high-fidelity equipment. Effective education doesn’t depend on technology alone.In Simulatio...
11/12/2025

Not all simulation requires high-fidelity equipment. Effective education doesn’t depend on technology alone.

In Simulation-Based Education, the priority is always the learning objective.
Choosing the appropriate level of fidelity ensures participants can focus on the skills, behaviours, or decision-making the scenario is designed to develop.

Low-fidelity simulation supports:
✅ Procedural skills
✅ Repetition and deliberate practice
✅ Building confidence in a controlled environment

High-fidelity simulation supports:
✅ Teamwork and communication
✅ Clinical reasoning
✅ Managing complexity and patient deterioration

Both approaches are valuable.
Both contribute to safer, more prepared healthcare teams.

Selecting the right fidelity is not about capability, but about purpose.

Discuss in the comments 👇

🤖 Can we really detect AI-generated writing?A new study examines how well AI detection tools - and humans - can identify...
09/12/2025

🤖 Can we really detect AI-generated writing?

A new study examines how well AI detection tools - and humans - can identify AI-generated academic text. Using five levels of AI involvement (from fully human-written to fully AI-generated), the researchers compared three detection tools with blinded human raters.

Key findings include:

✨ AI tools could distinguish between different levels of AI use, but showed significant variability in their scores
✨ Reliability across tools was inconsistent, raising concerns for scholarly use
✨ Human raters performed no better than chance, with only 19% accuracy

Read the full article here: https://advancesinsimulation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41077-025-00396-6

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