Speakers: Rachel Pittmann, PhD, CCC-SLP, FNAP, CHSE & Tony Williams, Simulated Participant Program Manager
This 2-hour faculty development workshop promotes simulation faculty and simulated participants’ (SPs) collaboration to enhance case quality, safety, and educational impact. Using the IHP SP Engagement Workflow Process and evidence-based standards from the Association of Standardized Patient Educators a guiding framework, participants will examine four critical stages of simulation design and delivery: case development, safety review, training, and event execution. Faculty will explore how learning objectives are communicated to SPs, the importance of sufficient case detail and clinical background to support authentic portrayal, and strategies for conducting psychological and physical safety reviews, including attention to emotionally charged cases. The session will also highlight evidence-based SP training strategies, the value of dry runs with all relevant parties present, and ways to intentionally include SPs in feedback during event execution. Through discussion and applied examples, participants will leave with practical tools to support consistent, safe, and effective SP supported simulation experiences. This workshop is part of an arc of simulation trainings at MGH IHP – Part I, conducted in 2025 focused on SP development, which gathered and provided pearls for this Part II workshop, focused on faculty development.
Registration: Contact Jessica Bell, jbell [at] mghihp.edu