Queensland

2023 Workshops

Module S5: Simulated patient methodology

This module introduces some core facets of simulated patient (SP) methodology. The focus is on preparing SPs to work in healthcare simulations. The module describes a systematic approach to SP methodology. The module addresses issues at the level of the clinical training program (e.g. scenario development, alignment with curriculum, assessment etc) and at the level of the individual SP (e.g. casting, performance training etc). You are encouraged to think creatively about the breadth of content to which SPs can contribute to your own practice and to reflect on current approaches.

27 April 2023 – 9:00am to 12:00 noon (CANCELLED)

This session is run in combination with Module S12: Simulation based interprofessional education (IPE)

  • Hosted by: University of Queensland, Rural Clinical Unit (Rockhampton)
  • Location: 78 Canning Street, The Range, Rockhampton 4143
  • Facilitator/s: Jules Bennet
  • Open to external participants – priority given to internal participants
  • RSVP: j.bennet@uq.edu.au

Module S6: Patient focused simulation

When clinicians perform examinations and procedures on patients, they are expected to manage a complex set of skills (e.g. psychomotor, communication) while exercising clinical judgment and other aspects of professionalism. We often teach these components of the complex sets of skills separately. Hybrid or blended simulations enable trainees to bring all these skills together. This module explores the expanding practice of hybrid simulations also known as patient focused simulations. That is, the ‘combining of simulators’ – usually a simulated patient (SP) with a skills trainer (e.g. bench top, VR simulator etc). Here we briefly revisit some of the concepts in Module S5 – Simulated patient methodology, but consider their application to procedural and operative skills. That is, in patient focused simulations. We also explore the contribution of hybrid simulations to sequential simulations and the role of feedback, especially as offered by SPs. You are encouraged to think creatively about the application of patient focused simulations in your practice.

28 April 2023 – 9:00am to 12:00 noon (CANCELLED)

  • Hosted by: University of Queensland, Rural Clinical Unit (Rockhampton)
  • Location: 78 Canning Street, The Range, Rockhampton 4143
  • Facilitator/s: Jules Bennet
  • Open to external participants – priority given to internal participants
  • RSVP: j.bennet@uq.edu.au

Module S12: Simulation based interprofessional education (IPE)

This module provides you with an opportunity to reflect on how simulation can support the development of interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP). That is, the ways in which individuals from different professions, disciplines, craft groups and other service roles work together to provide the highest quality care for patients and their families. This module addresses ways in which simulation may support the development of IPCP. We explore some of the complex interprofessional language, we share what several people have to say about IPCP, we invite you to think about your own IPCP, what you do well, what you might improve. We consider evidence on the contribution of simulation to IPCP, learn from others about getting started in interprofessional simulation and then focus on developing your own practice. The e-learning revisits information from the core modules and many of the optional modules too.

27 April 2023 – 12:30pm to 4:30pm (CANCELLED)

This session is run in combination with Module S5: Simulated patient methodology

  • Hosted by: University of Queensland, Rural Clinical Unit (Rockhampton)
  • Location: 78 Canning Street, The Range, Rockhampton 4143
  • Facilitator/s: Jules Bennet
  • Open to external participants – priority given to internal participants
  • RSVP: j.bennet@uq.edu.au