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Abstract Title | Managing a national training program: facilitators and barriers

Authors

  1. Clare Byrne
  2. Margaret Bearman
  3. Debra Nestel

Theme

10II Simulator

INSTITUTION

Health PEER Monash University
School of Rural Health Monash University

Background

The National Health Education and Training in Simulation (NHET-Sim) Program:

  • Funded by Health Workforce Australia
  • Provides free e-learning and workshop training in use of simulation for education to develop healthcare simulation educators and technicians
  • Available to 25 specified professions across Australia
  • Aims for 4595 participants to complete the training by the end of December 2014
Summary of Work
  • Establishment of a governance structure
  • Recruitment of a project team
  • Drawing together of simulation experts
  • Website development
  • Development of simulation training resources for online and workshop components
  • Migration of content into learning management system
  • Sourcing of booking system for workshops
  • Recruitment and training of faculty to act as facilitators for workshops across Australia
  • Determining methods for data collection and analysis
Summary of Results

As of the 1st August 2014:

  • 268 workshop events held across Australia
  • 5115 registrants for the Program
  • 2882 individuals have met the requirements for completion of the Program
  • 116 active faculty members

Conclusion

Barriers to delivery included:

  • Complexity of system and non-customised IT systems led to lack of integration
  • Funding constraints and short-term nature of contracts
  • Broad scope of marketing and reliance on personal contacts
  • Pre-existing simulation training programs in some jurisdictions

Facilitators to delivery included:

  • Local champions
  • Dedicated administration team with understanding of healthcare systems
  • Approach to teaching including co-facilitation model encouraging high quality teaching
  • Multi-pronged approach to marketing
  • Timing of training in relation to increased profile of simulation and its role in health education in Australia
  • Diversity of simulation modality training and high quality of resources
  • Program highly valued by participants

Take-home Messages

A large scale Program requires a dedicated administration team, local champions, the flexibility to adapt to local environments and the capacity to draw on the expertise of simulation experts.

 

Acknowledgement

Background

NHET-Sim Participants:

  • Register for the Program via the NHET-Sim website using an online form
  • Receive username and password to access online content
  • Book into workshops using an online booking tool

The NHET-Sim Program comprises:

  • Two core modules
  • Eleven elective modules

All modules can be completed purely online or a combination of online and face-to-face workshops. All participants must complete the two core modules and can then complete as many electives as they choose.

 

 

NHET-Sim Modules

C1

Simulation-based education: Contemporary issues for the health professions

C2

Being a simulation educator

S1

Being a simulation technician

S2

Simulator fundamentals

S3

Technology-based simulators and simulations                    

S4

Delivering technology-based simulations

S5

Simulated patient methodology

S6

Patient-focused simulations

S7

Virtual environments

S8

Simulated learning environments: Program management

S9

Debriefing in simulation

S10

Developing scenarios

S11

Teaching with task trainers

Summary of Work
Summary of Results

 

Graph 1 Registration by discipline

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion
Take-home Messages
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