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THE POWER OF TEAMWORK & SIM EFFICIENCYBy Dr. Niranjan Sathivel Multidisciplinary team simulations have several benefits for the parties involved; learners, educators and the simulation centre staff.In these scenarios learners have the unique opportunity to tackle problems using a team approach, which in many ways mimic real life settings. Communicating, learning and understanding the perspective of each team member is a vital aspect for patient safety, which can be built into training scenar...

Time constraints. We all have them and we all end up finding a way to deal with them. From my experience of having been an educator at a fully staffed medium sized simulation centre, I have first hand knowledge of the time constraints. Some sessions required elaborate set-ups which had to be started the day before. An example of such a session was the Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) skills training session for senior general surgery residents and fellows...