Calendar

Raleigh, NC
WakeMed Health & Hospitals Andrews Conference Center
September 2 - 3, 2010

This year's Mid-Atlantic Regional HPSN is hosted by WakeMed Health & Hospitals and METI and is offered for FREE to anyone interested in medical simulation and education. Don't miss this opportunity to attend workshops, plenary sessions and network with medical education simulation experts in a casual, cooperative and informative setting.

Register now!

Tuebingen, Germany
Center for Patient Safety and Simulation (Tupass)
September 9 - 11, 2010

Cambridge, MA
The Institute for Medical Simulation
September 13 - 18, 2010

THE INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SIMULATION
The Institute for Medical Simulation (IMS), a jointly sponsored endeavor of the Center for Medical Simulation and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, offers courses for simulation leaders, educators and researchers who want to develop and maintain high-quality medical simulation programs within their organizations.

Established in 2004, and updated through the years, this is the Institute’s most comprehensive and immersive program. Attendees represent a wide range of experience, disciplines and specialties, but all share one common goal: to become outstanding educational leaders or directors of a current or prospective simulation program. With experiential education being the keystone of simulation, the course is a mix of theory, practice and feedback so that students develop a strong and comprehensive understanding of how to most effectively use simulation within their education programs. Widely respected, dedicated educators with years of simulation experience lead the course with one main goal in mind: Transform every IMS student to be an outstanding educator.

Topics include:
 Patient simulation: history and context
 Operating a simulation program
 Creating a challenging and safe learning environment
 Teaching clinical thinking and skills
 Teaching teamwork and crisis resource management
 Developing debriefing skills
 Preparing, building, conducting, and debriefing realistic simulation scenarios
 Avoiding simulation pitfalls and ineffective debriefing techniques
 Introducing behavioral and educational research paradigms
 Advancing simulation within one’s institution

For more information and to apply for this course paste this link in your web browser: http://www.harvardmedsim.org/ims-comprehensive-workshop.php

This course is sponsored by CRICO/RMF of the Harvard Medical Institutions for CME and CE credits. CRICO/RMF of the Harvard Medical Institutions is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

www.harvardmedsim.org | 617.768.8900 | info@harvardmedsim.org

Los Angeles, CA
LAC & USC Healthcare Network
September 24, 2010

HPSN is the premier education conference for medical simulation users with leaders from all ends of the globe coming to take part in this incredible learning event. This year's Western Regional HPSN is being hosted by Los Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC+USC) Medical Center and METI and is offered for FREE to anyone interested in medical simulation and education. Don't miss this opportunity to attend workshops, plenary sessions and network with medical education simulation experts in a casual, cooperative and informative setting.

To learn more, go to their website.

Aurora, CO
The WELLS Center
September 24, 2010