• The College has approved an in-house 4-hour paediatric resus course run by MedSim solutions as an equivalent to one triennial refresher course

We all experience some simulation training when we undertake our annual resus courses. Simulation can be a very powerful educational tool.

One of the drawbacks of attending a resus course is that you will often be amongst a group of healthcare professionals unknown to you and within an unfamiliar setup with unfamiliar equipment. This means that when you get to experience a real resus situation within your clinic, you have not trained alongside the people you are working with and have not stress-tested your knowledge of equipment within the resuscitation room.

In-house simulation training, with members of the regular team (including reception) and using the clinic equipment, will enable team building between colleagues under resus conditions and can identify issues with equipment or clinic processes that would otherwise only come to light in a real situation.

Simulation training requires skilled facilitators and it needs to be mindful of the potential harm to participants. It is therefore important that these are undertaken in a psychologically safe manner to maximise learning and minimise harm. Simulations need proper debriefing to enable transference of learning.

The team at MedSim Solutions offer a 4-hour in-house paediatric simulation course that has been approved as a resus refresher course for one of your triennial refreshers.

The course covers all the required components of a refresher course, but it takes place within your normal place of work, alongside nurses and reception staff and using your own equipment in as realistic a way as possible. The 5 scenarios cover a wide range of paediatric emergencies and are designed to safely increase the degree of “productive discomfort” simulations generate. As such, they are a powerful learning modality.

If your clinic is interested in arranging one of these refreshers for you and your team, they should contact Erin and Khang at MedSim Solutions for further details. Khang is a Paediatrician working in Emergency Medicine, and Erin is a Paediatric ED Nurse, and both have a huge amount of experience in delivering psychologically safe simulations. They travel to your clinic and they adapt to your environment and can run during opening hours with contingency should the resus room be required.

The College has endorsed the course but is otherwise not involved in any other way. MedSim Solutions are a private course provider, and you would approach them the same as any other resus provider you use to provide your annual courses. We are sharing this opportunity with you as we believe there are additional educational and professional development benefits in this type of in-house training.

Check out their website for more details