Center for Medical Simulation (CMS)

This week: Jenny, Laura, & Janice each share how they’ve struggled to be transparent & vulnerable in a conversation, to try to work towards a collaborative inquiry rather than mystery and defensiveness.

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Curious Now: In decades of training at the Center for Medical Simulation, we’ve identified one element of our approach to Good Judgment learning conversations that people have the most difficulty with.

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Ask CMS #8 | Where's the Coaching vs. Debriefing Line? Q: I recently attended one of your workshops at SESAM on “Teaching, Coaching, or Debriefing with Good Judgment” and found it helpful. However, we didn’t have time to work through a situation I had tro...

This week on Ask CMS: A recent attendee of our workshop on Teaching, Coaching, and Debriefing across the SimZones at SESAM has a question about a specific problem they encountered in training a team leader during a rapid response case: harvardmedsim.org/blog/ask-cms...

Join us at a great starting point in our new chapter on transforming toxic culture. This chapter's guests are Laura Rock and Janice Palaganas, former host of our DJ Simulationistas and SimFails podcasts!

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Ask CMS #7 | No Time Available in the Sim Lab Q: I teach pharmacology, and I think simulation could work in my course. Unfortunately, I can’t get any time in the sim lab. I’ve heard people talk about sim in the classroom, but it seems like a lot ...

This week on #AskCMS: A pharmacology prof wants to incorporate more sim, but the lab is completely booked. How can we do more sim without leaving the classroom?

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This week’s Curious Now: ‘Frames, Actions, Results’. Here, we want to apply the framework to other people’s actions—what frame would make what they did a little act of genius?

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Congrats Laura Rock! Amazing to see this work on the big stage at #SESAM2025

For those who couldn't attend today at #SESAM2025, our Grand Rounds presentation for "Teaching, Coaching, and Debriefing across the SimZones" is available on Youtube and Spotify!

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Curious Now: Mel Barlow and BJ So rejoin us to talk about the experience of testing using new listening styles at home and at work. Both noticed a similar trend of listening with their families...

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Friends at #SESAM2025: Demian Szyld will be leading our workshop "Debriefing Doesn't Always Work! Know when to teach, coach, or debrief by implementing With Good Judgment across the SimZones" Friday at 10:00 AM local time!

CMS Bids a Happy Retirement to Gary Rossi! Friday marks the last day of sixteen years with the Center for Medical Simulation, and a well-deserved retirement. Gary's plans include cruises to Italy, time with grandkids, and visits to Cape Cod with family.

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This week on Curious Now we’re looking at new research on listening styles and how they impact our teams and cultures in the world of healthcare. What are we listening for when we listen to people?

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In this week’s Curious Now Listeners, BJ So describes being asked to supervise a more senior clinician, while Mel Barlow tries onboarding a new colleague from a less feedback-positive culture.

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Sim colleagues and Curious Now listeners-- Jenny Rudolph will be presenting at the 2nd annual Ottawa SIMposium on June 20th. Hope to see you there for a one-time workout on using sim skills to build our team performance and connection!

ASK CMS #6 | What Do I Do with Excess Learners? Q: I am the director of a large university-based simulation program. Because of sheer numbers, I often work with groups of eight learners during simulation cases. Eight is too many learners to have pa...

An excellent question this week on Ask CMS: My simulation program is overrun with learners! How do I manage sim group sizes when there's no way a real world care team would have that many people?

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See how Hospital Universitário Sagrada Família (HUSF) is changing the way their teams work together with "Circle Up": www.instagram.com/reel/DJ2BdQO...

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“How could they turn down my slam dunk proposal??”: B.J. So & Mel Barlow return to share how they overcame a wall applying the generous inference to a difficult administrator.

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This week on Curious Now: How the “Generous Inference” was a complete game-changer for Jenny's debriefing, and how to bring it to play in healing your toxic work culture.

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For the next chapter of Curious Now, we’ll have an Australian focus as we’re joined by B.J. So and Mel Barlow. Today they’ll share their experiences on both ends of the psych contract breach. Join us!

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ECU partners with global experts for immersive simulation training Edith Cowan University's School of Nursing and Midwifery has partnered with the Center for Medical Simulation to deliver specialist training.

A great writeup from Edith Cowan University on our recent trip to Australia for the Healthcare Simulation Essentials course:

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Ask CMS #5 | Debriefing a Much More Senior Clinician Q: The interprofessional simulation program at our hospital has really grown recently and I often conduct debriefings with teams consisting of nurses, MDs, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and oth...

This week on Ask CMS: one of two regular faculty in a rapidly expanding sim program is struggling to stay on their game when debriefing much more senior clinicians.

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Getting your message heard in a sea of content and other helpful strategies for healthcare professionals in this month's CMS Book Club:

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Getting Ready Across the MultiCare Health System BMultiCare Health System, a leading healthcare provider in the Pacific Northwest, is re-committing to its partnership with the Center for Medical Simulation's Applied Learning for Performance and Safe...

Getting Ready Across the MultiCare Health System: See how a leading healthcare provider in the Pacific Northwest is supporting the performance, safety, and resilience of its clinical workforce.

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Jenny Rudolph will present at the #SSiH Women in Leadership Speaker Series at 11:30 EST on May 7th, on "Simulation Mindsets and Skills to Transform Program Culture."

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If you've haven't joined us yet, it's a great day to hop into Curious Now as we begin our second chapter. First up: surviving psychological contract breaches at work and at home!

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Day One of our Joondalup Course--thank you to Edith Cowan University for hosting our team in Australia, and looking forward to a great week of Healthcare Simulation Essentials!

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Ask CMS #4 | Faculty Fight over Learning Objectives Q: I am a member of the faculty at a college of pharmacy. We have a nascent simulation program. One question that bubbles to the surface repeatedly in our faculty team meetings is, “How much do I reve...

This week on Ask CMS: Faculty in a new pharmacy sim program can't stop fighting over how much to tell the learners about the contents of the simulation.

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Why is My Patient So Angry With Me? | Jenny Rudolph explores one of our listener's experiences with not understanding why an ICU patient was in fight mode every time the care team walked into the room.

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Ask CMS #3 | Not-So-Co-Debriefing Q: I’m the director of a simulation program in a nursing program.  I occasionally find out at the last minute that I am going to have a co-debriefer. They are usually people I know and work with, and ...

Ask CMS #3 | A nursing program director wants to know: how do I handle a surprise co-debriefer?

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When we’re activated, what are the diagnostic symptoms we can take of ourselves in order to successfully have our reaction, reset, and then get curious about what is going on for the other person?

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