HPSN was a whirlwind. I finally arrived in Tampa Tuesday afternoon in time to catch the later half of the Tuesday conference offerings, spend 45 minutes in the sun at the pool, and have Dinner with my good friends from the Netherlands, Joris Broeren and Michiel Schutter and their colleagues. Tuesday afternoon Shirley Huchins, MSN, RN gave a great talk titled: Social Learning Strategies for Simulation Learning applications. It was good to see a presentation on nursing education that emphasized the
So getting out of the Madison, Wisconsin would have involved buses and standby tickets from Madison to Tampa. I’m scheduled for a 5:15AM flight again on Tuesday. The presentation titled Simulation-Based Resuscitation: Team Leadership is still scheduled to take place on Wed February 22 at the METI HPSN Conference. It is snowing again so we will see… If all goes well I should be wheels down in Tampa around Noon tomorrow.
Abe Megahed and Marty Gustafson have both joined Clinical Playground, LLC as associates. Both Marty and Abe work in the Hypercosm™ division of ORBITEC located in Madison, WI. This is something of a reciprocal collaboration as Clinical Playground, LLC managing member Eric B. Bauman recently became an associate of Orbitec. This said, the addition of Marty and Abe to our “Players” list enhances the the depth and breadth of expertise
IMSH 2011 is officially closed for business. I know this because I am at the airport waiting for my flight at the New Orleans Airport after having stuffed myself one last time at Mother’s. Aurel and I would like to thank all of those who made the Serious Games and VE Track and Arcade possible. A special thanks to my fellow Games+Learning+Society Alum’s (Ben DeVane, Jon Aleckson, and Moses Wolfenstein) and co-founder Kurt Squire for there participation and willingness to
Join the Clinical Playground Crew for the IMSH Serious Games & VE Track Monday. 10:30 Games-Based Learning With Kurt Squire, Moses WolfenStein, and Ben DeVane of Games+Learning+Society (GLS ) fame. 1:30 Healthcare-Related Serious Games Development facilitated by Aurel Mihai including Parvati Dev (Innovation in Learning, Jon Aleckson (Web Couseworks and Academy Award Nominee), and Moses Wolfenstein (Academic CoLab and GLS) 3:30 Serious Games Arcade and Reception (5PM). See the newest and latest innovations in games for healthcare and clinical education. Meet the
The SSH Consensus Summit was a lot of work but tremendously productive. Various pre-conference workshops took place Saturday along with several SSH committee meetings. IMSH 2011 speakers and attendees continue to arrive. Ben DeVane (University of Florida – Gainesville) and Aurel Mihai both arrived today. Aurel is a co-facilitator for the Serious Games Track. Ben will will be participating as a session respondent and staffing the first ever IMSH Serious Games Arcade .
The first day of the SSH Consensus Summit is over. A phenomenal amount of work was accomplished on a variety of topic areas pertinent to the advancement of simulation-based research and education. Monographs for ten topic areas have been written, tweaked, and revised based on panelists interpretation of the state of the simulation-based literature and participant interaction with panelists. This interaction and ensuing discussion has been an important collaborative step in the consensus process. Day two of the consensus will
The IMSH 2011 Consensus is underway – standing room only. The first session of presentations just concluded and has moved to breakout sessions. The amount of interest for the Summit while not surprising seems to exceeded expectations. This will make for lively discussion and provide insight for future research endeavors and agendas. All sorts of notable Society for Simulation in Healthcare notables and newcomers are participating in the summit. Spotted this morning, Kim Leighton, Mary Patterson, Micheal Seropian, Jeff Taekman,
The Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) Research Consensus Summit gets underway Friday, January 21 with the 2011 International Meeting of Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) starting on Sunday, January 23. While it is still a couple of days before the conference is in full swing SSH members are already trickling in. The over 200 Summit, Pre-conference, and IMSH courses being offered brings with them an astounding amount of talent and expertise. Hour by hour and minute by minute I am running
We hope you will be joining other Society for Simulation for Healthcare (SSH) members in New Orleans for the Pre-Conference Consensus Summit January 21-22 and IMSH itself January 23-26 at the Hilton Riverside. Whether you are joining us or not consider following the Twitter feed on the Clinical Playground website. We are also working with SSH to get the feed carried on the SSH homepage. The “hash-tag” for the the conference Twitter feed