Train-the Trainers

It has been almost a year since the CLSF offered our last train-the-trainer course for simulation preceptors. Since then, there has been a healthy expansion in our simulation community. Several groups now engage regularly in teaching with simulation. However, there is still a great deal of growth yet to come, and several new groups looking to acquire expertise in simulation have approached us.

Teaching using simulation is something that requires some commitment of time and resources to do well. Courses offered at large centres such as Wieser and Harvard cost between $5000 and $10000. However, obtaining such training for a large number of staff is neither logistically realistic nor necessary for most departments.

To assist programs with this important evolution, the faculty at the Clinical Learning and Simulation Facility have designed a train-the-trainers course that will prepare faculty to begin simulation curricula for their programs.

Over the two-day course, participants will learn what they need to begin developing simulation-based education for their programs.  This course is open to anyone who wishes to use simulation in health care education, from all disciplines. Our ideal class would have a healthy mix of people form various backgrounds.

The cost of this course this year will be $945 per participant. The next course will be offered on January 21-22, 2012. Due to the need to maintain a favorable ratio of trainees to preceptors, space will be limited to 16 people. To enroll please register HERE.

Pre-Course Material:

• Curriculum Design
• Frames and Debriefing with Good Judgement 
• There’s no such thing as a “non-judgmental” debriefing: a theory and method for debriefing with good judgment (link)
• Deliberate practice and the acquisition and maintenance of expert performance in medicine and related domains   

Course Details:

• Course Outline, Goals and Objectives