Podcasts by The Center for Medical Simulation
DJ Simulationistas… Sup? is the flagship podcast of the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, Massachusetts. Janice Palaganas and Dan Raemer, CMS faculty and thought leaders in the field of healthcare simulation, discuss the pressing issues in the field, interview expert guests, tell jokes, and dissemble on a variety of topics. Subscribe today for a new episode every week! Available on iTunes, Soundcloud, or wherever podcast babies come from.
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.
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Grand Rounds | Circle Up: Debriefing in the Clinical Environment from 2021-11-15T00:00
"Circle Up: Debriefing in the Clinical Environment," presented by Jenny Rudolph and Demian Szyld at Tower Health Grand Rounds.
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SimFails #009: Healthcare Simulation Week 2021 Fails from 2021-09-12T00:00
We're back for Healthcare Simulation Week 2021 and with a spate of new episodes for the future! Join Janice Palaganas, Kirsty Freeman, and Sacha Muller-Botti as they share a new year's worth of sim...
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New Study Finds Significant Decrease in Malpractice Claims Among Participants in Simulation from 2021-07-19T00:00
New from the Center for Medical Simulation: A new study in "Obstetrics + Gynecology" finds a significant reduction in malpractice claims against physicians who participate in simulation-based commu...
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Debriefing In The Clinical Environment Before, During, and After COVID-19 from 2021-05-08T00:00
From IMSH 2021's Virtual Conference, featuring Demian Szyld, Stuart Rose, Jennifer Arnold, Esther Leon, Paul Mullan, Cristina Diaz-Navarro, Bram Welch-Horan, Pier Luigi Ingrassia, & Laura Rock.
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Building Expertise: Exploring Novice Debriefers' Post-Simulation Debriefing Experiences from 2021-03-12T00:00
Expertise of the debriefer is critical to ensure simulation participants achieve the best possible learning outcomes. Debriefers need a specific skills set in order to balance multiple priorities, ...
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First Touch: Building Your Organizational Culture After the Pandemic (recorded 6/10/20) from 2021-01-22T00:00
Following this webinar, participants will be able to:
Describe the role conversation plays in driving organizational culture
Contrast front-line workflow adaptation using brief...
Getting Ready \ Staying Ready: Advanced Teamwork Moves During COVID-19 from 2021-01-15T00:00
We take it for granted that effective teams apply crisis resource management skills during emergency care, but how often do those teams also rehearse teamwork from the start of each shift together,...
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Creating Dialogue Around Respect from 2021-01-08T00:00
Building on the discussion in Building on the discussion in Broaching Race and Racism in Debriefing and Team Simulations (Part 1), CMS presents a conversation with healthcare leaders who are direct...
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Meet the Author: Jeff Cooper from 2020-12-30T00:00
Meet the Author is an opportunity to hear from leaders in the fields of healthcare simulation, patient safety and education about the process and outcomes of their scholarship. You are invited to l...
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What Efficient Mentorship Looks Like from 2020-12-24T13:00:18
Professionals are overcommitted both at home and at work. And feeling busy doesn’t help stress. When professionals try to take tasks off their plate, mentorship may be a first to go. Understandably...
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4 Essential Decisions When Transitioning to Remote Learning from 2020-12-18T00:00
Online learning doesn’t have to be a pale imitation of “real” in-person learning. It’s a whole new way of interacting with learners. What if instead of a boring, predictable series of discussion qu...
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CMS Open Forum with Henrique Arantes, Mary Fey, Chris Roussin, & Demian Szyld from 2020-12-14T00:00
Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) faculty are often asked to share their perspectives on a variety of topics. These informal discussions often take place during meal breaks during courses or in t...
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Shared Leadership in Healthcare Emergency Teams: Should the Lighthouse Be Demolished? from 2020-12-04T00:00
During this presentation, Dr. Sarah Janssens will expand on how she became interested in the topic of leadership and why she decided to focus specifically on the subject of shared leadership. Toget...
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Do Structured Handovers and Checklists Improve Patient Outcomes? from 2020-11-25T00:00
Hospital environments and clinical care has become complex. Managing interfaces across different aspects of the health system is critical, for example, patient flow across departments in a hospital...
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CMS Open Forum with Jenny Rudolph, Chris Roussin, & Demian Szyld from 2020-11-20T00:00
Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) faculty are often asked to share their perspectives on a variety of topics. These informal discussions often take place during meal breaks during courses or in t...
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Moving Your Simulation Program Online from 2020-11-12T00:00
Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) faculty are often asked to share their perspectives on a variety of topics. These informal discussions often take place during meal breaks during courses or in t...
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Design Thinking-Informed Simulation: Innovating to Evaluate + Modify Clinical Infrastructure from 2020-11-06T00:00
Design thinking, a human-centered design method, represents a potent framework to support the planning, testing, and evaluation of new processes or programs in healthcare. As opposed to traditional...
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Broaching Race and Racism in Debriefing and Team Simulations from 2020-10-29T00:00
Most of us in the simulation community have a lot to learn about making a difference regarding racism, how to integrate anti-racism, implicit bias, healthcare disparities and the like, into our wor...
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Facilitating Experiential Learning Online from 2020-10-23T00:00
As faculty have rapidly adopted online learning, many have found it challenging – the technology, managing the curriculum, and especially connecting with learners in a meaningful way. Join experien...
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The Reluctant Scholar from 2020-10-16T00:00
Scholarship is an important element of an academic career. Most health professions faculty are expected to produce scholarly work. But what exactly is scholarship? Aside from publishing a research ...
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Road Map to Relevance: SimZones Curriculum for Preparing People, Teams and Systems from 2020-10-09T00:00
Simulation-based curriculum should fit into a clear learning progression and solve important developmental problems for the healthcare organization. This webinar introduces participants to the SimZ...
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Be the Hero of Your C-Suite: Making Simulation Essential from 2020-10-02T00:00
Since the start of the modern simulation era, many in the healthcare simulation community have taken a “Field of Dreams” approach to our simulation efforts, believing, like the character Ray Kinsel...
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SimFails #008: Getting Emotional from 2020-09-25T00:00
What do you do when your emotions get out of control during a debriefing? Do you need to limit them, or can they actually help us make good decisions about care? Join us this week as a German, Aust...
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SimFails #007: Too Broad of a Take Home from 2020-09-18T00:00
Goals like "I'm going to communicate better" are far too broad for effective learning outcomes. How can we make our takeaways more precise?
What mistakes do we make when we think we're be...
SimFails #006: Assessment Failures from 2020-09-11T00:00
How do you work with embedded participants and simulated patients when doing assessment in simulation? How do you make sure that any assessments you do are both valid and reliable, especially if yo...
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Ch. 7: One Question at the Door (Finale) from 2020-09-03T00:00
Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser le...
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Ch. 6: Reflecting on a Legacy from 2020-08-28T00:00
Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser le...
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Ch. 5: Assembling the Team: Strength Through Diversity from 2020-08-21T00:00
Learn more and watch the video interview at http://www.harvardmedsim.org/resources/jeff-cooper-the-history-of-simulation/
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Ch. 4: An Unexpected Merger: Introducing Dan Raemer from 2020-08-14T00:00
Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser le...
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Ch. 3: The Ripple Effect: Finding Common Ground from 2020-08-06T00:00
Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser le...
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Ch. 2: Palo Alto vs. Gainesville: The Stanford Visit from 2020-07-31T00:00
Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser le...
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Ch. 1: The Anesthesia Machine: An Accident Waiting to Happen from 2020-07-28T14:01:44
Jeff Cooper, Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, joined us in 2017 to tell the story on camera of how an Operating Room fire sparked by an accidental use of a laser le...
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SimFails #005: Confidentiality Breach from 2020-07-17T00:00
This week, Janice brings up a traumatic episode from her experience: a team reveals in debriefing that their department regularly does something unsafe for patients. How do we keep patients safe wh...
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SimFails #004: Soap Bubble Emotions from 2020-07-10T00:00
SOAP BUBBLE EMOTIONS: In this week's SimFails, Marcus brings us a failure from the reactions phase of debriefing, and an argument that's existed about that phase. How do we go from scripted searche...
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SimFails #003: Too Many Participants from 2020-07-02T00:00
Note: This podcast was recorded in September 2019.
What are some strategies to implement when you have too many participants to safely or efficiently fit into your simulation space? Kirsty...
SimFails #002: Manipulating Debriefing from 2020-06-26T00:00
Welcome back to SimFails! We'll be releasing this limited series podcast over the next few months in the lead-up to Healthcare Simulation Week 2020. Join Janice Palaganas, Kirsty Freeman, and Marcu...
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COVID Chronicles #013 | The Great Unfreezing: COVID-19 & the Movement for Racial Justice from 2020-06-19T00:00
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a profound moment of disruption of hierarchy, silos, speed and type of communication in healthcare. At the same time, we face a profound moment of disruption of bu...
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Brief Debriefings 012: How COVID-19 Will Change Nursing Education w/ Suzie Kardong-Edgren from 2020-06-11T00:00
This week on Brief Debriefings, we joined with Center for Medical Simulation Senior Fellow Suzie Kardong-Edgren to talk about how nursing programs are adapting to forced changes to their clinical l...
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COVID Chronicles #012 | Laura Rock & Rebecca Minehart: Navigating Crisis Fatigue from 2020-06-05T00:00
Not being able to give a goodbye hug to a trainee ending their fellowship; delivering children without their families present; managing deeply isolated COVID-19 patients: Our normal routines and "i...
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COVID Chronicles #011 | Komal Bajaj: Candor as the Root of Quality & Safety from 2020-05-29T00:00
This week on COVID Chronicles, Komal Bajaj, Chief Quality Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi, joins us to discuss how four fundamental principles from the world of quality and safety are info...
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COVID Chronicles #010 | David Richo: Handling & Healing COVID-19 Trauma from 2020-05-21T00:00
What are the resources we can bring with us into stressful or triggering situations, so that we can continue to be our best selves as people and professionals?
David Richo is a psychothera...
COVID Chronicles #009 | Marjorie Lee White & Andres Viles: PPE Practice to Build Safe Systems from 2020-05-15T00:00
Marjorie Lee White and Andres Viles, an Emergency Physician and Emergency Nurse from the University of Alabama-Birmingham join us to discuss how their organization has worked to integrate simulatio...
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COVID Chronicles #008 | Jody Hoffer Gittell: Being Part of a Whole and How It Improves Outcomes from 2020-05-08T00:00
This week on COVID Chronicles we're joined by Jody Hoffer Gittell, a professor of management at Brandeis University and expert on relational coordination. We discuss how to transform our relationsh...
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COVID Chronicles #007 | Amelia Rudolph: Managing Fear Through Personal Connection from 2020-05-01T00:00
Amelia Rudolph is the founding Creative Director of Bandaloop, a vertical dance company founded in 1991. Bandaloop performs aerial dances which shift the plane of the dance floor vertically and cre...
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COVID Chronicles #006 | Liz Crowe: Doffing Grief Along With Your PPE from 2020-04-23T00:00
DOFFING GRIEF: Joining us this week is Liz Crowe, a pediatric social worker, self-described “naughty Australian,” cohost of the Coda Change podcast, and author of The Little Book of Loss and Grief ...
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COVID Chronicles #005 | Clément Buléon: The Airway SWAT Team, an Alternate Model from 2020-04-17T00:00
Clément Buléon is an attending anesthesiologist from Normandy, France, and a founding member for the French Society for Simulation in Healthcare.
His hospital has designed an alternate str...
COVID Chronicles #004 | Stefanie Heiter: Bridging Distance Online from 2020-04-13T00:00
Stefanie Heiter is the CEO of Bridging Distance, a remote-work consulting company based in Massachusetts. She joined us this week to talk about the way our work will change as staff for many compan...
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COVID Chronicles #003 | Lon Setnik: Rebuilding the Airway Process in New Hampshire from 2020-04-10T00:00
Lon Setnik (twitter.com/lonsetnik) is an emergency physician and medical director of the Forrest D. McKerley Simulation and Education Center at Concord Hospital. He joined Jenny Rudolph to discuss ...
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COVID Chronicles #002 | Nacho del Moral: What Clinicians Need Now is Empathy from 2020-04-05T00:00
Welcome to COVID Chronicles with Jenny Rudolph, a just-in-time podcast checking in with friends and colleagues from the front lines of healthcare, the home front, and other unique perspectives on l...
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COVID Chronicles #001 | Albert Chan: Going Viral to Keep Clinicians Safe from 2020-04-02T00:00
Welcome to COVID Chronicles with Jenny Rudolph, a just-in-time podcast checking in with friends and colleagues from the front lines of healthcare, the home front, and other unique perspectives on l...
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Episode 083: Simulation in Real Life from 2019-12-13T00:00
JJ Simulationistas: The big day has come! Dan joins us one last time for the big handoff, as Janice Palaganas and Jenny Rudolph take over the team to move the podcast forward as JJ Simulationistas....
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Episode 082: The Final Simulation from 2019-12-05T00:00
SAYING GOODBYE TO DAN: In a bittersweet finale to the DJ Simulationistas podcast, Janice leads Dan through the final simulation experience of his career. But wait! Dan will return next week as we b...
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Episode 081: How Teams Form | DJ Sim Special from 2019-11-01T00:00
DJ SIM SPECIAL: Brad Morrison joins Janice as guest host, along with Christian Balmer, Catherine Chang, Derek Monette, and Benjamin Schultze to discuss how ad hoc teams can form smoothly in real ti...
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Brief Debriefings 011: "I'd Read About It..." with Mary Fey & Paul Quigley from 2019-10-25T00:00
I'D READ ABOUT IT: Dr. Paul Quigley, Emergency Medicine specialist from Wellington, New Zealand joins Mary Fey from the Center for Medical Simulation to discuss turning knowledge from articles into...
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Episode 080: The Collapse of Simulation | The Penultimate Episode from 2019-10-11T00:00
DAN IS RETIRING! This is the penultimate episode of DJ Simulationistas as you know it.
Janice, considering how her retiree parents seem to worry over everything, asks Dan to come up with ...
Episode 079: The 50% Simulation Study w/ Suzie Kardong-Edgren & Brad Morrison from 2019-10-04T00:00
THE 50% SIM STUDY: Apologies for the poor audio quality in this episode, which was recorded on the road at a CMS traveling course.
Brad Morrison joins Janice Palaganas as a guest host to i...
100% Adoption. 35% Mortality Reduction. $7,000,000 / Year. | A Talk with Michael Rose & Kate Hilton from 2019-09-26T00:00
100% of OR Teams using a checklist and conducting debriefs. Mortality rates dropped by 35%. An economic return of 80,000 hours annually due to a reduction of time spent on each surgical case, equal...
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SimFails #001: Learning from Our Failures from 2019-09-15T00:00
SimFails … and Other Conversations from the Sim Sofa:
Janice Palaganas, Kirsty Freeman, and Marcus Rall are an experienced, interprofessional, global healthcare simulation team, and they’r...
Language Complications at ResusTO | Rebecca Minehart & Jenny Rudolph from 2019-09-11T00:00
Resus Linguistics: Jenny Rudolph and Rebecca Minehart are at ResusTO in Toronto, Ontario, and are podcasting their post-session debriefs! Join us for this session as Rebecca and Jenny discuss Keri ...
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Design Thinking at ResusTO | Jenny Rudolph & Rebecca Minehart from 2019-09-11T00:00
Design Thinking at ResusTO: Jenny Rudolph and Rebecca Minehart are at ResusTO in Toronto, Ontario, and are podcasting their post-session debriefs!
Join us for this session as Jenny and Reb...
Brief Debriefings 007: Simulation for Communication with Walter Eppich & Janice Palaganas from 2019-08-23T00:00
SIMULATE TO COMMUNICATE: CMS faculty Walter Eppich and Janice Palaganas sit down at the end of an intensive weeklong course to discuss how simulation can help develop your team's communication skil...
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WTF 2 WTF #003 | Janice Palaganas, Stephanie Barwick, Sara Janssens from 2019-08-15T00:00
Today we present a few examples of personal and clinical moments where advocacy inquiry allowed one of our coworkers at CMS to stay curious and get to the root of someone else's thinking when prese...
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WTF 2 WTF #002 | Kate Morse & James Lipshaw from 2019-08-09T00:00
Today we present a few examples of personal and clinical moments where advocacy inquiry allowed one of our coworkers at CMS to stay curious and get to the root of someone else's thinking when prese...
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WTF 2 WTF #001 | Jenny Rudolph & Robert Simon from 2019-08-01T00:00
in 2018, Jenny Rudolph presented "Helping without Harming" at SMACC, where she led the audience in moving from "WTF?!" to "What's their frame?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2aC_yyORM)
Brief Debriefings 006: Frames Actions Results with Kate Morse and Melanie Barlow from 2019-07-26T00:00
FRAMES ACTIONS RESULTS: The Learning Pathways Grid (or "LPG") is a tool we use at the Center for Medical Simulation to discover how we often get in the way of our best intentions, reframe our think...
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Brief Debriefings 005: Speaking Up with Jenny Rudolph and Donna Bonney from 2019-07-19T00:00
FINDING PATHWAYS TO SPEAK UP: The Learning Pathways Grid (or "LPG") is a tool we use at the Center for Medical Simulation to discover how we often get in the way of our best intentions, reframe our...
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Brief Debriefings 004: Learning Pathways with Jenny Rudolph & Janice Palaganas from 2019-07-12T00:00
FINDING PATHWAYS TO SPEAK UP: The Learning Pathways Grid (or "LPG") is a tool we use at the Center for Medical Simulation to discover how we often get in the way of our best intentions, reframe our...
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Brief Debriefings 003: Guess What I'm Thinking! ft. Jenny Rudolph from 2019-06-28T00:00
Guess What I’m Thinking!
In this week’s episode of Brief Debriefings, Jenny Rudolph joins Shaun Grant, a pediatrician from New Zealand, and Kelly Roszcszynialski, a physician in emergency...
Episode 078: Rapid Response with Michael DeVita from 2019-06-23T00:00
"Distress is in the Eye of the Beholder": Michael DeVita, former president of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and Chief Medical Officer of EarlySense, joins Dan & Janice to talk about his ...
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Brief Debriefings 002: Frame Shift! from 2019-06-14T00:00
FRAME SHIFT: “I found out that telling the truth doesn’t make you the bad guy. Telling the truth is actually your job and it’s going to be beneficial for the learners and for yourself.”
In...
Episode 077: Grade Levels from 2019-06-09T00:00
GRADE LEVELS: Dan & Janice discuss how accidentally joining an expert biking tour of Portugal lent surprising insight into the experience of simulation learners. Also: the best ways to shepherd new...
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Episode 076: Transitioning Roles from 2019-06-02T00:00
ROCKET DAN: Dan & Janice return, addled by time zone and weather changes, to talk about how to keep your sanity when juggling or transitioning roles in a healthcare organization. Also: forgetting y...
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Book Club Ep. 010: The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity...(Laura Liswood) from 2019-05-24T00:00
WHISPERED RULES: Join Suzie Kardong-Edgren, Jenny Rudolph, Janice Palaganas, & more from the CMS Book Club as we discuss Laura Liswood's "The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity While Embracing D...
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Brief Debriefings 001: Effective Communication from 2019-05-19T00:00
BRIEF DEBRIEFINGS:
“A lot of what we did this week was centered around effective communication…and often times that skill is just as important as the care that we deliver and the manner i...
Critical Conversations 4: Critical Conversations in the Classroom from 2019-05-10T00:00
CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MARY FEY: Many educators struggle with how to help their learners achieve high standards of practice while also maintaining a caring relationship with them. The new book...
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Critical Conversations 3: Critical Conversations in the Clinic from 2019-05-03T00:00
CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MARY FEY: Many educators struggle with how to help their learners achieve high standards of practice while also maintaining a caring relationship with them. The new book...
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Critical Conversations 2: Critical Conversations in Simulation from 2019-04-19T00:00
CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MARY FEY: Many educators struggle with how to help their learners achieve high standards of practice while also maintaining a caring relationship with them. The new book...
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Critical Conversations 1: An Introduction to Critical Conversations from 2019-04-12T00:00
CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MARY FEY: Many educators struggle with how to help their learners achieve high standards of practice while also maintaining a caring relationship with them. The new book...
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Episode 075: Personalizing the Preview from 2019-04-08T00:00
PERSONAL PREVIEW: This week, Dan & Janice explore the two types of preview, the value of disclaimers, and bringing the preview to social settings. Enjoy!
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Episode 074: Name Dropping from 2019-04-01T00:00
NAME DROPPING: This week, Dan & Janice explore how to credit the creators of the ideas you use in your teaching. Also: When is naming scholars helpful to learners, and is publishing research even v...
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Episode 073: Learning Through Talk with Walter Eppich from 2019-03-25T00:00
LEARN THROUGH TALK: Walter Eppich, Demian Szyld, and Mary Fey join Dan & Janice to discuss Walter's PhD research on conversational learning, simulation as a means to better care for patients, produ...
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Episode 072: Bee-briefing with Mary Fey from 2019-03-17T00:00
CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS: Mary Fey joins Janice and guest hosts Walter Eppich and Demian Szyld to discuss her & Sue Forneris' monograph "Critical Conversations: The NLN Guide for Teaching Thinking," ...
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Book Club Ep. 009: The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety...(Amy Edmondson) from 2019-03-11T00:00
PSYCH SAFETY: Join Roxane Gardner, Kate Morse, Laura Rock, Ignacio del Moral, & Janice Palaganas as they discuss Amy Edmondson's book "The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in th...
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Episode 071: Psych Safety in 10 Minutes! from 2019-03-04T00:00
PSYCH SAFETY: This week, Dan & Janice want to revolutionize how we establish psychological safety, with lessons learned from a piano teacher. Also: the role of modeling, getting buy-in for high sta...
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Episode 070: Localized Debriefing with Paul Phrampus from 2019-02-25T00:00
LOCALIZATION: Dan & Janice are joined at IMSH 2019 by Paul Phrampus, Dan's fellow former President of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, to talk about his experience consulting on simulation...
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Episode 069: Doubting the Video from 2019-02-17T00:00
HINDSIGHT BIAS: Dan & Janice investigate whether video or writing is more effective for post-event reflection. Also: Staying down the ladder of inference, skimming the surface of frames, and more. ...
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Episode 068: Overcoming Work-Style Conflicts from 2019-02-10T00:00
PROJECT MANAGEMENT: This week, Dan & Janice take on the fundamental battles of order vs. chaos, and sprawling creativity vs. rigid organization. Also: Dan's manager jealousy, being philosophically ...
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Episode 067: He Said, She Said from 2019-02-04T00:00
SIMULATION RASHOMON: Dan & Janice explore what special techniques to bring to your debriefing when you didn't observe the event yourself, particularly when you are hearing conflicting reports about...
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Episode 066: Keeping Your Sim Center Afloat with Jenny Rudolph from 2019-01-28T00:00
"NO MARGIN, NO MISSION": Jenny Rudolph joins Dan & Janice to talk the logistics of keeping a sim center running, adjusting to the changing field of healthcare, & moving your agenda forward no matte...
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Episode 065: Balancing Sim with a Clinical Career w/ Roxane Gardner from 2019-01-20T00:00
FINDING BALANCE: Roxane Gardner joins Dan & Janice to tell the story of how a tension pneumothorax changed her life and her perspective on medicine. Also: obstetrical simulation through history fro...
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Episode 064: Building Simulation Partnerships with Robert Simon from 2019-01-14T00:00
SIM PARTNERSHIPS: "We don't want to compete with people. We want to help people." Robert Simon joins Dan & Janice to talk sim affiliations, the qualities of a good partnership, and moving team agen...
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Episode 063: Simulation--Too Much Fun? from 2019-01-07T00:00
TOO MUCH FUN? Dan & Janice examine the question of whether simulations are allowed to be "fun." Also: abandoning prebriefing scripts, normalizing anxiety, and breaking preconceived notions about si...
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Episode 062: The Science of Speaking Up w/ Melanie Barlow from 2018-12-24T00:00
SPEAK UP SCIENCE: Melanie Barlow joins Dan & Janice to discuss her PhD research on the science of speaking up. Also: new naming conventions in healthcare, how to "receive" speaking up, the differen...
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Episode 061: The Future of the Mannequin w/ Bas Oei from 2018-12-17T00:00
FUTURE OF THE MANNEQUIN: Bas Oei, a surgeon from the Netherlands and a CMS visiting scholar, joins Dan & Janice to discuss his PhD work combining virtual avatars with mannequins to increase the fid...
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Episode 060: Faking Empathy from 2018-12-10T00:00
FAKING IT: Dan & Janice explore learning how to empathize, and how to show genuine respect for the learner. Also: skills vs. job requirements, consequences for unkind practitioners, and the preserv...
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Episode 059: The New Algorithm from 2018-12-03T00:00
NEW ALGORITHM: Talking drug research & the new ACLS guidelines with Dan Raemer & Janice Palaganas. Also this week: the half life of facts, and balancing speed with thoughtfulness in critical care d...
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Episode 058: Workshop Development from 2018-11-26T00:00
WORKSHOPS: Dan & Janice prep for conference season by discussing cutting extraneous workshops, shocking the audience, creating practice forums, and what to do when someone hates the workshop you ga...
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Episode 057: Miscommunication from 2018-11-16T14:58:52
MISCOMMUNICATION: Dan returns from vacation to join Janice in a household human factors error root cause analysis. Also: Janice plays counselor, getting over being cryptic, and the safety of formed...
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Episode 056: Feedback Across Cultures w/ Tim Brake (Guest Week #3) from 2018-11-12T00:00
FEEDBACK ACROSS CULTURES: Tim Brake joins Janice to discuss initial encounters in bringing debriefing to a global audience. Plus: antagonistic speaking up, breaking the safe container, & "global de...
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Episode 055: Gamification of Simulation w/ Vinay Nadkarni (Guest Week #2) from 2018-11-05T00:00
SIMULATION GAMES: Dr. Vinay Nadkarni joins Janice in our second guest week to discuss simwars and simulation games, having just returned from judging the Italian Pediatric Simulation Games, a weekl...
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Episode 054: Healthcare Silos w/ Angela Aristidou (Guest Week #1) from 2018-10-29T00:00
HEALTHCARE SILOS: Angela Aristidou joins a solo Janice Palaganas (Dan is on vacation) to discuss her research around healthcare silos, organizational behavior, and more!
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Episode 053: What Makes a Model Teacher from 2018-10-22T00:00
MODEL TEACHERS: This week on DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice explore the elements that make a model teacher, including mental models & frames, personalities, and more. Also: what is the best teach...
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Episode 052: The Feedback Loop from 2018-10-15T00:00
FEEDBACK LOOPS: This week, Dan & Janice explore "feedback peace of mind" and how to achieve it. Also: making difficult conversations work online, transformative teaching on feedback, and overcoming...
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Episode 051: A Century of Raemer from 2018-10-08T00:00
DAN-CENTENNIAL: Birthday boy Dan Raemer shares lessons from the last year of simulation, where he has continued to learn new things. Also: how history comes to be, bringing your life experience to ...
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Episode 050: The DJ Simulationistas Anniversary Special from 2018-10-01T00:00
ONE YEAR OF DJ SIMULATIONISTAS: It's the DJ Sim 1 year, 50 Episode special! Join Dr. Dan Raemer, Dr. Janice Palaganas, & DJ Simulationistas producer / CMS Instructional Designer James Lipshaw as th...
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Episode 049: Simulation Storytime from 2018-09-24T00:00
SIM STORIES: While we prepare for our one-year-anniversary, special episode #50 spectacular next week, enjoy two new hilarious simulation stories from Dan & Janice about simulations gone wrong.
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Translational Sim ft. Vic Brazil & Jenny Rudolph from 2018-09-14T00:00
This podcast is a joint venture between CMS and Simulcast. Listen to more from Simulcast at http://www.simulationpodcast.com.
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Book Club Ep. 008: The CMS Journal Club: 5 Articles from American Psychologist To Improve Your Team from 2018-09-10T00:00
THE SCIENCE OF TEAMS: Join the CMS crew as we discuss 5 articles from American Psychologist which can improve how your teams function! Research questions include: is an ad hoc team or an establishe...
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Episode 048: Telemedicine w/ Dr. Clement Buleon from 2018-08-30T00:00
TELEMEDICINE: Special guest Dr. Clement Buleon, as well as a secret surprise guest, joins Dan and Janice to discuss new innovations in telemedicine, and how to use simulation to train providers to ...
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Episode 047: The Simulation Crystal Ball from 2018-08-26T00:00
CRYSTAL BALL: Dan & Janice look ahead to the future of simulation, while examining Dan's failed predictions from history. Also: pulse oximeters, duck boats, the merger of clinical care with simulat...
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Episode 046: Procrastination from 2018-08-20T00:00
PROCRASTINATION: Dan & Janice investigate-- how does work get done? How to balance teams who want to negotiate every detail with those who want to get it done and move on. Also: moving forward with...
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Episode 045: Research Bias from 2018-08-13T00:00
RESEARCH BIAS: Dan & Janice return to talk about speaking up research, and how to overcome research bias. Also: scientific conduct and what makes a great researcher, the impact of guidelines and ov...
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Episode 044: Teamwork and Jazz from 2018-08-06T00:00
TEAMWORK & JAZZ: Dan & Janice return from Montreal with new insights on teamwork in simulation, including: working together versus working well alone, the benefits of occasionally being a learner i...
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Episode 043: Rogue Participants from 2018-07-30T00:00
ROGUE PARTICIPANTS: Dan + Janice field a question from Facebook about what participants who want to "act" in simulations. Also: Accidentally pushing stereotypes, simulation as theater, how not to g...
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Episode 042: Bedside Conflict w/ Dr. Laura Rock from 2018-07-23T00:00
BEDSIDE CONFLICT: This week, Dr. Laura Rock joins Dan & Janice to talk conflict: how to negotiate with jerks, distinguishing positions from interests, setting the stage for productive bedside argum...
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Episode 041: Debriefing... Like Good Wine? w/ Dr. Alexandre Ghuysen from 2018-07-16T00:00
DEBRIEFING WITH WINE: Dr. Alexandre "Sascha" Ghuysen joins Dan & Janice for meditations on the nature of communication and its relationship with sim, and draws parallels between debriefing and the ...
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Book Club Ep. 007: Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less (Alex Pang) from 2018-07-02T00:00
Jenny Rudolph leads this month's CMS Book Club on "Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less" by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. How do you make rest and work partners in a setting of normalized overwo...
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Episode 040: Know Your Simulationista II: Improv Edition! from 2018-06-25T00:00
KNOW YOUR SIMULATIONISTA II: This week on DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice put their new improvisation training to the test in a completely education-free fifteen minutes of … fun? Get to know the ...
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Episode 039: Can Improv Training Improve Your Debriefing? from 2018-06-18T00:00
IMPROV FOR DEBRIEFING: This week on DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice return from an improvisation training workshop and examine whether the training they received could help with general debriefing...
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Episode 038: Making Time from 2018-06-11T00:00
MAKING TIME: This week on DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice explore how to make time even when you're swamped. Also: mentorship, letting people fight their own battles, multi-tasking vs. task switch...
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Episode 037: Burnout from 2018-06-04T00:00
BURNOUT: This week on DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice explore the 3 types of burnout and how to overcome them. Also: Dan's colleagues who never finished their PhDs, creating a mantra, and how to s...
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Episode 036: The Delicate Art of Journal Review (ft. Jenny Rudolph) from 2018-05-28T00:00
"HOW TO" FOR JOURNAL REVIEW: This week on DJ Simulationistas, Jenny Rudolph joins Dan & Janice to discuss best practices for journal review, how to get yourself in a constructive mindset, and how t...
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Book Club Ep. 006: Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling (Edgar Schein) from 2018-05-18T00:00
In this month's CMS Book Club, Dr. Roxane Gardner leads the CMS team in a discussion of Edgar Schein's "Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling." Enjoy!
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Episode 035: Clash of Personalities from 2018-05-14T00:00
CLASH OF PERSONALITIES: This week on DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice explore how individual personalities can alter identical scenarios and debriefings. Also: team quality as a function of toleran...
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Episode 034: Clinical Event Debriefing with Dr. Jennifer Arnold from 2018-05-07T00:00
CLINICAL EVENT DEBRIEFING: Dr. Jen Arnold joins Dan & Janice for a second week to discuss getting comfortable with conversations around death, getting peer-to-peer support in stressful clinical sit...
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Episode 033: Family Simulations with Dr. Jennifer Arnold from 2018-04-30T00:00
FAMILY SIMULATIONS: This week, Dan & Janice are joined by Dr. Jennifer Arnold, CMS Board of Trustees member, neonatologist, simulation director at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, and star of...
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Episode 032: Embrace Hypocrisy! from 2018-04-23T00:00
EMBRACE HYPOCRISY: Today on DJ Simulationistas, Janice debriefs her latest keynote with Jenny Rudolph, "Walking Our Talk: Finding and Embracing the Hypocrisy." Also this week: Prethink charts to re...
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Episode 031: Sticking With Simulation from 2018-04-16T00:00
STICKING WITH SIMULATION: In this week's DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice examine resilience and how it applies to simulation. Also: Janice complains about kids these days, Dan on when not to hire ...
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Episode 030: "Change in One Day?" with Dr. Susan Farrell from 2018-04-09T00:00
“CHANGE IN ONE DAY?”: On this week’s DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice are joined by Dr. Susan Farrell to discuss the MGH IHP Leading Across Professions conference, and whether it’s possible for a o...
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Episode 029: Vulnerability in Difficult Debriefings from 2018-04-02T00:00
VULNERABILITY IN DIFFICULT DEBRIEFINGS: Janice returns from a difficult conversations workshop with a new tool for assessing your contributions to negative emotions in the debriefing room. Also: te...
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Episode 028: The Magic of New Toys from 2018-03-26T00:00
THE MAGIC OF NEW TOYS: On this week's DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice investigate whether fancy new toys make your simulations better. Also: PhD student "nesting", getting psyched for sim, the pow...
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Episode 027: Low Resource Simulation, Guatemala Edition from 2018-03-19T00:00
LOW RESOURCE SIMULATION: In this week's DJ Simulationistas, Janice returns from leading sim-based classes in Guatemala with advice on running simulations without all the technology. Also: the effec...
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Episode 026: Low-Hanging Research Fruit from 2018-03-12T00:00
LOW-HANGING RESEARCH FRUIT: In this week's DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice take the true measure of what it means to do research. Also: How to maintain your study's sanctity, reflective medical et...
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Episode 025: Transfer of Care Backstabbing from 2018-03-05T00:00
In this week's DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice take on tribalism and backstabbing behavior in clinical care after experiencing it from the patient side. Also: Dan makes a med student cry, barriers...
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Episode 024: Let's Talk: Public Speaking Tips for Healthcare Pros from 2018-02-26T00:00
This week on DJ Simulationistas: Janice informs Dan of the "Dan Raemer rule" at CMS, Dan gets imposter syndrome, and both DJs discover a revealing truth about their public speaking practice. Also: ...
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Episode 023: Retreat! from 2018-02-19T00:00
This week on DJ Simulationistas: what is the value of teamwork and staff cohesion? When will you see returns on time you invest in building a team? Also: setting records for incompetence at CMS, th...
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Episode 022: Finding Energy & Inspiration for Difficult Work from 2018-02-12T00:00
In this week's episode of DJ Simulationistas: Dan & Janice debrief the IMSH conference and explore what inspires and energizes them to work harder in the coming year. Also: how to pick up your ener...
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Episode 021: The Problem of (Un)Certainty from 2018-02-04T00:00
This week on DJ Simulationistas: A split-second decision needs to get made in the ER. Two people have different ideas. How do you make a decision? An incident with Janice's daughter forced Dan & Ja...
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Episode 020: "Name It to Tame It" from 2018-01-29T00:00
Greetings from flu-ridden Boston! We managed to roll out of our sick-beds to bring you this miniature episode. "Name It to Tame It" is a strategy for soothing upset emotions, solving team friction,...
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Episode 019: The Upset Participant from 2018-01-21T00:00
In this week's episode of DJ Simulationistas, Janice & Dan return to their discussion from two weeks ago about debriefer self-rescue to ask one more question-- how do you save your debriefing when ...
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Episode 018: Pervasive Myths of Simulation from 2018-01-15T00:00
In this week's episode of DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice examine some of the pervasive myths that they have encountered in their time in the world of simulation, and try to figure out which ones ...
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Episode 017: Demons of Debriefing from 2018-01-08T00:00
In this week's episode of DJ Simulationistas, Dan & Janice explore how to "chillax" in a stressful debriefing, Dan admits his fatal flaw, and the team explores how to deal with "resident hubris." A...
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Book Club Ep. 005: Listen! The Art of Effective Communication (Dale Carnegie & Associates) from 2018-01-05T00:00
In this month's very bite-sized version of the CMS Book Club, Dr. Rebecca Minehart leads the team in a discussion of Dale Carnegie & Associate's book "Listen! The Art of Effective Communication." J...
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Episode 016: The Perils of Lifelong Learning from 2018-01-01T00:00
In this week’s episode of DJ Simulationistas … ‘Sup?, Dan reflects on the hidden costs of a life devoted to continual learning. Janice explores what motivates your adult learners to grow and change...
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Episode 015: What is the Virtual Campus? from 2017-12-25T00:00
In this week’s episode of DJ Simulationistas … ‘Sup?, Dan teaches us about the one thing that frustrates him most watching teaching in simulation, and special guests Roxane Gardner and James Lipsha...
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Episode 014: The #1 Skill in Simulation from 2017-12-18T00:00
In this week’s episode of DJ Simulationistas … ‘Sup?, Janice and Dan bring you the #1 skill that you can take back to patient care from simulation. Also this week: how to interrupt a doctor so that...
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Episode 013: Mad Simulationist's Lab: The Secret to Sim Technology from 2017-12-11T00:00
In this week’s episode of DJ Simulationistas … ‘Sup?, Janice makes Dan reveal the secret to building successful models and sim technology. Also: how to engage surgeons in your simulation, the trick...
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Book Club Ep. 004: Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (Kim Scott) from 2017-12-08T00:00
The Center for Medical Simulation Book Club is a monthly session where the CMS team reads and discusses a relevant writing to the world of simulation. The Book Club is a light-hearted and enjoyable...
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Episode 012: How to Educate Educators from 2017-12-04T00:00
In this week’s episode of DJ Simulationistas … ‘Sup?, Dan and Janice tackle the question that CMS investigates every day: how do you best educate educators? We propose a number of solutions. Also t...
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Episode 011: The Korea Special from 2017-11-27T00:00
In this week’s episode of DJ Simulationistas … ‘Sup?, Dan & Janice tell us what they learned about simulation and society on their trip to give a keynote at the Korean Society for Simulation in Hea...
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Episode 010: An IMSH 2018 Preview, with Roxane Gardner, Jordan Halasz, & Jill Sanko from 2017-11-20T00:00
In this week’s episode of DJ Simulationistas … ‘Sup?, we bring you an exclusive preview of IMSH 2018 from three members of the IMSH 2018 planning committee: Roxane Gardner, Jordan Halasz, and Jill ...
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Episode 009: Getting Vulnerable from 2017-11-12T00:00
In this week’s episode of DJ Simulationistas … ‘Sup?, Dan and Janice run their own private book club for Daring Greatly by Brene Brown, because, well, Dan forgot about the actual CMS Book Club. Fro...
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Book Club Ep. 003: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms... (Brene Brown) from 2017-11-09T00:00
The Center for Medical Simulation Book Club is a monthly session where the CMS team reads and discusses a relevant writing to the world of simulation. The Book Club is a light-hearted and enjoyable...
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Episode 008: Education Titration from 2017-11-05T00:00
In this week’s miniature episode of DJ Simulationistas … Sup?, Dan and Janice explore educational models for spaced learning in healthcare education. Also: Dan discusses his past life studying the ...
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Episode 007: Dan's Journey to the Dark Side from 2017-10-30T00:00
In this week's episode of DJ Simulationistas, Dan takes us through his new project to make sure that real patients are never hurt by simulation, including a deep dive into the history of sim, inclu...
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Episode 006: Dan & Janice's Equal and Opposite Reactions from 2017-10-23T00:00
In this week’s episode of DJ Simulationistas … Sup?, Dan and Janice check in on our emotions before moving on to cognition… or do they? We explore strategies and alternative models for the Reaction...
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Episode 005: Micro-Express Yourself! from 2017-10-16T00:00
In this week’s episode of DJ Simulationistas … 'Sup?, Janice experiments on her children with facial recording software, and finds some unexpected results. Also: how to recognize a Super Recognizer...
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Book Club Ep. 002: Teaming: How Organizations Learn...(Amy Edmonson) from 2017-10-10T00:00
The Center for Medical Simulation Book Club is a monthly session where the CMS team reads and discusses a relevant writing to the world of simulation. The Book Club is a light-hearted and enjoyable...
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Episode 004: Seven Words You Can't Say in Simulation from 2017-10-09T00:00
In this week’s episode of DJ Simulationistas … Sup?, Dan and Janice discuss words they find frustrating in simulation, and riff on an old George Carlin routine. Also: the origins of the Voice of Go...
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Episode 003: Where in the World are DJ Simulationistas? from 2017-10-02T00:00
In this week's episode of DJ Simulationistas … 'Sup?, Janice returns from Saudi Arabia with new love and a permanent addition to her fashion collection. Janice and Dan discuss differences in Advoca...
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Episode 002: Feedback from the Skinny Mirror from 2017-09-25T00:00
In this week's episode of DJ Simulationistas … 'Sup?, Janice and Dan discuss finding the people who will give you feedback that actually helps you grow. Also: Janice freaks out at her children, Dan...
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Episode 001: Deception, or, Little Dan Pees His Pants from 2017-09-18T00:00
In our initial episode of DJ Simulationistas … Sup?, Dan recounts the most scarring deception he ever experienced, and how it broke the “safe container.” Would he do it again? In a heartbeat. Also:...
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Book Club Ep. 001: Essentialism, the Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Greg McKeown) from 2017-09-13T00:00
The Center for Medical Simulation Book Club is a monthly session where the CMS team reads and discusses a relevant writing to the world of simulation. The Book Club is a light-hearted and enjoyable...
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Episode 000: Know Your Simulationista! from 2017-09-09T00:00
In this slightly oddball episode of DJ Simulationistas, James the tech guy introduces you to Dr. Dan Raemer and Dr. Janice Palaganas, two big names in simulation who will be leading you on both a r...
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