Events Reports
Report of the Association of Simulation Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) Conference November 2011.
Last month (November 2011) Clair Merriman and Liz Westcottt from Oxford Brookes University attended the ASPiH conference in Cardiff on behalf of CAIPE. The conference theme was The Quality and Impact of Simulated Practice in Healthcare. Clair and Liz have provided feedback on the event and also some useful tips and questions for those involved in planning and delivering simulated practice.
There were a number of keynote addresses that challenged the audience to really think about quality, safety and leadership within the clinical setting. The themes were how and if simulation could be used to support HCP education and training.
Dr Kevin Lachappelle is Associate Professor of Surgery at McGill University, Canada. He focused on the errors that are made within clinical practice and argued how simulation based healthcare education will greatly enhance patient safety by reducing errors.
Professor Rhona Finn, a psychologist at the University of Aberdeen gave a very inspiring talk and really challenged the audience about developing an organisation safety culture, and how this requires very strong leaders, who lead by example.
Professor Alan Bleakley is a psychologist specialising in psychotherapy and cultural psychology and Professor of Medical Education at Peninsula Medical School. He gave a very controversial talk relating to ‘communication hypo-competence’ and how health care needs to face up to an iatrogenic problem of this epidemic problem based around miscommunication.
There were also workshops, oral presentation of work in progress and research.
To read the full report click here
Chair's Event 19th November 2010, King's College London
Elizabeth Howkins Chair of CAIPE
The Chair’s Event held on November 19th 2010 was the first event designed primarily for the benefit of CAIPE's individual members, and as such was a special occasion. In future, it will be an annual event and free to individual members. This year, the focus was on Interprofessional Research and the theme was 'Challenging Interprofessional Research'. Presenters included invited speakers and individual members who had submitted their research for inclusion in the day. They were all asked to consider the current challenges in IP research and to answer the question ‘Have you been challenged or are you challenging?’
It was a very enjoyable day with an international flavour. There were 36 attendees who included members from all parts of the UK, Malta, Holland and the Republic of Ireland and invited guests from Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Everyone who attended took part in the discussions following the interesting and stimulating presentations and throughout the day there was a real ‘buzz‘ to the proceedings. There was so much to discuss, share and ask questions about and a huge amount of networking went on.
Morning and afternoon sessions began with a keynote speaker. The morning presentations were from invited speakers. The afternoon presenters were those who had submitted their work for inclusion in the Event.
Panel discussion Some of the poster presenters
4th Annual John Horder Lecture, Wednesday 18th June 2008, Royal Society of Medicine
'Promoting Collaboration in Public health; The US Experience'
Assistant Surgeon General James Galloway. MD, FACP, FACC, Rear Admiral United States Public Health Service presented some of the findings of his work in public health.
He described the collaborative and integrated approach taken as one of the 'Pathways into Health' to improve the lifestyles and health of both the Amercan Indians and six communities in Chicago. He gave the audience a fascinating insight into the breadth and depth of his work and this was a most interesting and inspiring presentation.
To view the presentation please click the following links:
James' Gollway's presentation Part 1 (1mb)
James' Gollway's presentation Part 2 (8mb)