SimCast

In this episode, Lawrence and Tony lose their cool and vent about the things in simulation that really get on their nerves! No one is safe as the pair of moaning minnie's complain about everything from faulty kit, to using simulation to try and fix all of the world's problems...

This week the SimCast team are joined by Kate Denning and Kevin Mackie who are talking about changes to the Generic Instructor Course (GIC), an internationally renowned programme for developing instructors for life support training across a wide range of sub-specialisms.

In the episode the panel discuss some of the main changes made to the GIC, as well as things that needed to stay and some of the challenges faced along the way. They look at the underpinning educational principles, a shift towards learner centric facilitation and how the model needs to be replicated at scale whilst still retaining high quality at all times.

If you're a life support provider or instructor you won't want to miss this episode!

Tony and Lawrence work through another top 5, this week concentrating on the people behind simulation with their top 5 team members. The duo look at their list slightly differently which makes one of them reconsider their choices...

Tony and Lawrence dive into another of their top 5 series where the duo look at their top 5 pieces of sim information needed to ensure sim activity remains top notch.

As usual the rules of engagement are neither person knows the other person's top 5, so stay tuned to see what they have picked.

In this episode Lawrence and Tony are Joined by Dr. Rosie Doy. The trio discuss Rosie's EdD thesis - Messiness and complexity: A case study exploring student parameidcs voayages into navigating uncertainty and look at the parrelells of Rosie's findings and its applicaiton to simulaiton. True to form, messiness rears its ugly head in the episode so stay tuned to find out what happened...