Background
Advancing a New Model for Education of Health Care
Professionals: Trends, Issues and Opportunities
Healthcare educators are challenged to meet
learning needs and enrollment expectations due
to increasingly constrained clinical placements.
The Goal of Group 4 was to engage stakeholders
(CAATS Heads of Health Sciences with their health
care programs and faculty and staff and related
government and regulatory bodies) to obtain perspectives regarding urgencies and realities related
to advancing simulation learning as a strategy to
change healthcare education in relation to this situation.
Outcomes
Results from the Project are summarized in relation to the 6 Components of the POP-DOC Model
TODAY: HIGH USE; GREAT
NEED:
VARIABILITY
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Objectives
TODAY: OPPORTUNITY TO
LEARN & EVOLVE
EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGY & CURRIC ULUM DESIGN
DEMO WITH REGULATORS & FIELD INVOLVEMENT
DEMOS WITH:
SIMULATION AS A
NEW WAY TO EDUCATE
1. Determine the barriers, opportunities and benefits for simulation learning in meeting practicum
requirements for education of health care professionals.
-NEW TERMINOLOGY
-RESOURCE SHARING
THROUGH SIMOne
2. Develop recommendations for the advancement of simulation.
ADVOCACY WITH HEADS/H. SCIENCES & DISCIPLINE
GROUPS & DECISION-MAKERS (CNO, GOVT) MOHTLIC,
FUTURE: SIMULATION LEARNING NEEDS TO INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY (HC CHANGE; LEARNING BENEFITS)
NB. BARRIERS: FUNDING, REGULATORS, HUMAN RESOURCES , SPACE/EQPT
Project Activities
1. The Project Group used the POP-DOC Methodology for Meta Leadership to design input and engagement
strategies and to summarize findings.
2. Information was gathered through:
A. An inventory regarding the use of simulation for selected health care programs (BScN, PN, PSW, RT, PCP)
by Ontario Colleges including the Michener Centre (11 of 25 replied).
B. Interactive Survey administered at a Simulation Symposium on June 6th with 120 participants (faculty,
technicians, administrators from 17 colleges plus representatives from CNO, MTCU and Colleges Ontario)
C. Descriptive analyses regarding the use of simulation in nursing and respiratory therapy.
D. Follow-up conversations with CNO, MTCU, Colleges Ontario and SIMOne regarding perspectives and opportunities coming from the June 6th symposium.
Pictures courtesy Conestoga College
3. The Final Report was presented to SIMOne in September 2013 and Heads of Health Sciences in October
2013.
Partnerships
SIMOne has sponsored two Meta Leadership Workshops for health care education and policy leaders in
the province, the most recent being the April 2013
cohort. The workshop involved learning and demonstrating expectations related to meta-leadership, a
model for influencing and managing system-wide
change. Project Group 4 came from the April 2013
cohort and completed their project for September.
Authors
Project Group 4 Members (in alphabetical order)
Christina Jelicic. SIMOne
Karen MacDonald, Georgian College
Marlene Raasok, Conestoga College
Michael Scaffidi, Queens University
Tim Wilson, Western University
Angie Wong, Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care
Acknowledgements
The authors of this project would like to
acknowledge SIMOne for providing the Meta Leadership Workshop and funding to support project expenses.
Contact Information
Marlene Raasok
Executive Dean
School of Health & Life Sciences and Community
Services
Conestoga College Institute of Technology and
Advanced Learning
Email: [email protected]