Center for Medical Simulation (CMS)

What a fantastic week running our Advanced Instructor Course for our friends and former fellows at the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine! The Boston course is only two weeks away, so don't miss your opportunity to transform your practice: harvardmedsim.org/course/advan...

This week on Curious Now, Laura Rock and Janice Palaganas return to crack the code of team culture, map the blueprint underneath what we’re thinking in this chapter's final episode.

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This week on Curious Now we’re introducing a tool to help us bring the approach of understanding why people did what they did, called the FAR or Frames, Actions, Results tool.

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Advanced Instructor Course The world’s foremost simulation educators lead this intensive 4-day course. Personalized training "turns the mirror" on your educational and clinical teaching and...

One month out from our Advanced Instructor Course! This revamped program for simulation leaders helps you, your faculty, and your healthcare teams to be ready for the work you encounter every day in our rapidly changing field. Only a few seats remain: harvardmedsim.org/course/advan...

How do healthcare teams around the world use simulation to get ready for everyday challenges? Join Chris Roussin and CMS-ALPS as we explore on "Dare to Be Ready" #hcsimweek25

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Dare to Be Ready with Dr. Chris Roussin, founder of CMS-ALPS, the Center for Medical Simulation’s team and organization readiness consulting service!

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Name-Claim-Aim, The ABC’s of Teaming | SAEM SIMPosium, Sept 16 @ 1 pm:

At the SAEM SIMPosium, Dr. Lon Setnik shares practical, simulation-tested strategies to strengthen emergency team function.

Laura Rock, Janice Palaganas and Jenny explore where they are currently struggling in their practice of sharing their point of view clearly and then really inviting the other person’s perspective.

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Today we’re talking about transforming toxic culture, whether on your floor, in your unit, or in your department. How do we change unit culture via point of care conversations?

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Revolutionize Workforce Resilience and Strengthen Healthcare Delivery: A Powerful Partnership Between CMS-ALPS and ULS Alto Ave Imagine a healthcare system where clinicians and staff feel continuously supported, prepared, and resilient in the face of challenges.This vision is becoming a reality thanks to a groundbreaking partn...

Imagine a healthcare system where clinicians and staff feel continuously supported, prepared, and resilient in the face of challenges. This vision is becoming a reality thanks to a groundbreaking partnership between CMS-ALPS and ULS Alto Ave...

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CMS Executive Director Roxane Gardner will give the keynote "Be Ready to Team: Build Continuous Learning Pathways to Safer Care" on Sept. 4 at the 8th Latin American Congress on Clinical Simulation and Patient Safety in Bogotá, Colombia.

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Janice Palaganas and Laura Rock rejoin us to talk about their experiences of moving from mental rehearsal to actually asking the group, “What am I missing?”

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Mark Jones Featured on the Intelligent Video Solutions OnRecord Podcast Mark Jones, our Director of Simulation Technical Operations at the Center for Medical Simulation, was recently featured on the OnRecord Podcast from Intelligent Video Solutions, discussing CMS’ A/V re...

For our SimTech community--Mark Jones, our Director of Simulation Technical Operations, was recently featured on the OnRecord Podcast from Intelligent Video Solutions discussing our A/V setup and philosophy:

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Curious Now: All the Workouts Want to catch up to Curious Now? On this page, you can find every Curious Now "Workout of the Week" since Episode 1. Listen above, or follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Youtube!

Did you miss an episode of Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph and can't find the time to catch up? Now you can find every Workout of the Week in one place!

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This week on Curious Now, bring home the heart of this summer's work. Our workout of the week is a simple one: go from mental rehearsal to actual practice.

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Ask CMS #9 | Update on Having Too Many Observers in Sim Q: I read your recent column on observers in simulation, and I was surprised to see that the most recent research cited was from 2016. I have a similar issue with having more students than can reasona...

This week on Ask CMS: a reader of our previous columns wants post-COVID research on how to handle high learner numbers in their simulation lab. Read more: harvardmedsim.org/blog/ask-cms...

Coming in September-- The "Dare to Be Ready" podcast with Chris Roussin! Join us and a series of rotating guests as we examine readiness challenges across a broad swath of healthcare settings, and work with experts to solve their team problems in real time.

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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