Immersive Courses (pre-conference)

This course starts with the basics of 3D printing — from an overview of the different varieties of printers to their key components — and covers key terms and need-to-know information for anyone interested in the technology. Time is spent on CAD (Computer Assisted Design), where participants will design something simple and actually print it out during the course.

Presenter(s): Kirk Atkinson & Matthew Kosemund

Learning Objectives

1. Show reasoning and justification for a simulation program to adopt 3D printing.
2. Identify the types of printers and key components of all 3D printers, and successfully complete a simple design on a CAD platform (TinkerCad).
3. Prepare, load, initiate, and troubleshoot actual 3D printing on a 3D printer in class.

Speaking up about medical errors and patient safety concerns remains difficult across healthcare settings despite widespread recognition of its importance. This interactive workshop explores why healthcare professionals remain silent and how simulation can be intentionally designed to develop meaningful, context-sensitive speaking-up behaviors. Participants examine psychological and organizational barriers, develop targeted learning objectives, design simulation scenarios, and practice debriefing strategies that address motivation, psychological safety, and behavioral decision-making.

Presenter(s): Jen-chieh Wu

Co-Presenter(s): John O'Donnell, Paul Phrampus, Barry Issenberg, Hung Wei Tsai, Yu Chen

Learning Objectives

1. Identify psychological, interpersonal, and organizational factors that influence speaking-up behaviors.
2. Design simulation scenarios that address specific speaking-up learning objectives and contextual challenges.
3. Apply debriefing strategies that support reflective and sustainable speaking-up behaviors.

Some simulation topics generate more than cognitive challenge — they generate HEAT. High-Emotional Activation Topics are uncomfortable to address through active learning, emotionally complex, and capable of spotlighting vulnerabilities in learners and facilitators. This course introduces PHASE (Phased Handling of Affect in Simulation Education), a practical framework for teaching emotionally charged clinical content while preserving psychological safety. Participants identify HEAT Topics in their own settings, design safer simulation spaces, practice emotional debriefing, and rehearse rapid-cycle deliberate practice.

Presenter(s): Alexander Croft

Co-Presenter(s): Jenny Rudolph, Ernesto Romo, Sara Greer, Preeta George, Julie Woodhouse, Suki Lammers, Michael Lamberta, Nicole Novotny, Haley Plattner, Demian Szyld

Learning Objectives

1. Differentiate High-Emotional Activation Topics (HEAT Topics) from other emotionally challenging simulation content by applying defined criteria to a scenario from their own educational environment.
2. Design a PHASE-based simulation plan that includes an activating scenario, emotional debrief, and practice phase.
3. Demonstrate facilitation strategies for emotional debriefing and rapid-cycle deliberate practice through coached debriefing or communication sequences.

Abscesses, arterial bleeding, and eschars — oh my! Get ready to take high fidelity to a whole new level. Sight, smell, and touch will all be part of the experience as we translate basic techniques such as bruise creation into intervenable pathologies guaranteed to both amaze and challenge learners. Participants discover how a basic technique can expand into a wide variety of high-fidelity exam findings.

Presenter(s): Katie Gordon & Rachel Wiltjer

Learning Objectives

1. Discover how a basic bruise can be adapted into a variety of cutaneous findings.
2. Construct an abscess, a wound with arterial bleeding, and a burn eschar for performance of an escharotomy — all derived from a single foundational technique.
3. Uncover tips and tricks to expand acquired techniques into a variety of other high-fidelity exam findings.

A strategic plan is consistently identified as one of the most difficult elements simulation centers face when pursuing SSH Accreditation. This workshop guides attendees — from small centers to large interprofessional programs — through the team-based process used to build, implement, and revisit a strategic plan that was recognized as an Exemplary Item during SSH reaccreditation. Participants leave with a printed template packet, partially populated through structured peer collaboration with attendees from other centers, ready to adapt at their home institutions.

Presenter(s): Jason Craig

Co-Presenter(s): Dorian Williams, Daniel Summers, Lee Ann Miller, Adam Hoffman

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the core components of a simulation center strategic plan and explain how each supports accreditation readiness.
2. Draft initial content for three strategic plan components using structured templates and peer input during breakouts.
3. Value the role of staff and stakeholder engagement in strategic planning and commit to a team-based approach at their home center.

Bring your whole team to learn from program leaders, educators, SP educators, and operations leaders about achieving beautiful harmony when creating education and assessment sessions for teamwork and nontechnical competencies. This immersive course starts with group alignment of goals, splits into role-based smaller groups to create scenarios and assessment methods, then regroups to run the scenarios with recruited Tulane students and standardized patients.

Presenter(s): Jennifer Calzada, Jamie Robertson, Dayna Downing, Jamie Pitt, Andrew Eyre, Hellene Gabor, Sharon Weldon

Learning Objectives

1. Apply interprofessional nontechnical competency-building best practices to create an education scenario.
2. Develop role-based guidelines to support the creation of nontechnical competency-based education and assessment in interprofessional settings.
3. Describe challenges and opportunities in creating interprofessional team training simulation programs at your home institution.

This immersive course provides a hands-on, practical approach to using artificial intelligence to design high-quality healthcare simulation scenarios and OSCE experiences. Participants generate, refine, and validate cases in real time using structured workflows. Through guided activities, learners create scenarios, build assessment tools, and develop debriefing strategies while ensuring clinical accuracy and minimizing bias. Participants leave with ready-to-use materials and a repeatable process that improves efficiency, scalability, and educational quality.

Presenter(s): Sasha Edwards & Kimberly Whitten-Chung

Learning Objectives

1. Construct an AI-generated healthcare simulation scenario and OSCE station with aligned objectives, patient data, and measurable checklist criteria for competency-based assessment.
2. Apply validation strategies to assess AI-generated simulation content for clinical accuracy, bias, and safety, and adapt scenarios across mannequin-based, standardized patient, and hybrid modalities.
3. Design a structured debriefing guide aligned with scenario objectives using evidence-based frameworks.

This intensive 4-hour, hands-on workshop equips simulation professionals to design, record, and edit high-impact educational videos using tools ranging from smartphones to professional production systems. Participants learn how to translate a vision into a structured production plan, optimize lighting and audio, select appropriate equipment, and edit efficiently using free and professional platforms. Through guided exercises, participants storyboard, capture footage, record audio, and build a short educational segment during the session.

Presenter(s): Paul Phrampus

Co-Presenter(s): Geoffrey Miller

Learning Objectives

1. Design a structured video production plan for a simulation-based educational segment by developing a clear vision statement, aligned learning objective, and detailed shot list.
2. Capture high-quality video and audio by applying foundational principles of framing, lighting, microphone selection, and sound optimization.
3. Produce and export a short educational video segment by editing footage, integrating titles or B-roll, selecting appropriate file formats, and preparing content for deployment.