Transformative Simulation, ASPiH conference EICC 3-5 Nov 2024
It was great to catch up with many of our friends and colleagues at the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare conference held in Edinburgh focussing on Transformative Simulation. From the pre-conference workshops to an action packed two days of fantastic plenaries, workshops and presentations. The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Neil Gray, opened the conference and highlighted the amazing simulation work that is going on in Scotland and the rest of the UK. This was the biggest ASPiH conference to date with over 1000 delegates, 270 presentations, and 5 keynote speakers. It was great to see what is happening across the UK. Many thanks to Kevin Stirling and the organising committee for producing a great event. And congratulations to Russell Allan (NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde) winning the awards for both best oral presentation and best workshop based on his work on Shadowbox Simulation from the national internal medicine training simulation programme.
Mobile Skills Unit Update
November was another very busy month for the Mobile Skills Unit! It began with a flying visit to the Edinburgh International Conference Centre for the annual Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) Conference. During this three-day event we welcomed delegates from across the Uk and shared the work of CSMEN and the Mobile Skills Unit.
Next the unit travelled to Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert for the MSU Faculty Development course run by the Scottish Centre for Simulation and Clinical Human Factors. CSMEN received fantastic feedback about this course.
Later in the month the unit visited Dundee University with training sessions for undergraduates, international students, Scottish Ambulance Service, NHS 24 and NHS Tayside. Some of the topics included IV cannulation and venepuncture, ECG, NG tubes, chest auscultation and clinical assessment.
The Mobile Skills Unit finished the month with a two-week visit to Inverness for optometry training. CSMEN Clinical Lead Catie Paton ran a two-day faculty development course for ten optometrists. Other training sessions included a glaucoma training day and IP simulation-based sessions which ran with a simulated patient and EyeSi Virtual Reality Slit Lamp.
We are looking forward to the December visits which include Erskine Veterans Village and Monklands Hospital in Airdrie.
The Mobile Skills Unit truly is a multi-professional and multi-agency resource. If you are thinking of booking the Mobile Skills Unit for your region, you can check out the MSU availability on this calendar.
Foundational Human Factors for Health and Social Care
To register for this course, use the QR code above or this link. Foundational Human Factors for Health and Social Care
BASICS Scotland Update
It has been a busy few months for our BASICS delivery team. Here are some highlights. In September the BASICS team held their annual conference where over 100 responders met to discuss Remote and Rural resilience, and the team launched their Clinical Cardiac responder plans. This was followed by a fantastic faculty development day led by Jerry Morse; 38 faculty members attended for indoor hands-on sessions with iSimulate and the Atlas mannequins, plus outside workshops on the new bleedsuit and ambulance backdrops. In addition to running the NES supported PHEC and PHPLS courses and Core Skills days for a range of multi-professional learners including GPs, paramedics, ANPs and nursing staff they have also run 6 workshops (traumatic cardiac arrest, deteriorating paediatric sepsis case, chest assessment and surgical interventions) for the ICN AP pre-conference day at Aberdeen.
Please refer to the BASICS Scotland website for all course dates.
SCSCHF Update
Please refer to the SCSCHF website for all course dates
Conferences
You can find a link to conferences relevant to clinical skills and simulation here.
Resources
A range of resources to help you deliver simulation-based education can be found here.