FREE Simulation Based Train the Trainer Course Dates (2018)
Please note that these dates are ONLY AVAILABLE TO THOSE THAT ARE WORKING WITHIN THE SOUTH WEST LONDON REGION and are subjected to approval by your local Simulation Lead. Please see the dates below
- 04 – 05 January 2018 FULLY BOOKED
- 21 – 22 March 2018 FULLY BOOKED
- 09 – 10 April 2018 FULLY BOOKED
These free courses are available to those working at:
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust,
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust,
Epsom & St Helier’s University Hospital NHS Trust,
St.George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
Higher Education Institutes in South West London
BACKGROUND ON WHAT TRAIN THE TRAINER IS…
We are one of the leading providers of training for health 
professionals who want to use simulation as an educational tool. We have courses for individuals who are new to simulation and for those already involved in simulation-based learning who want more advanced theoretical and technical knowledge.
St George’s Advanced Patient Simulator (GAPS) has been at the forefront of multi-professional simulation and skills training since it was established more than 10 years ago. We provide simulation-based training for medical students, Foundation Programme doctors, specialist trainees, consultants, trained nurses, student nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, cardiac perfusionists and physicians’ assistants. And, importantly, we train them in multi-professional teams.
Over the past five years we have delivered STeLI* funded ‘Train the Trainers’ programmes for more than 300 attendees. As well, we offer training to local, regional and international groups. Our courses have always encouraged the involvement of both medical staff and those from professions allied to medicine and have been exceptionally well evaluated.Our course
We cover all aspects of the design and delivery of simulation-based training. In addition, course attendees are offered up to three supernumerary faculty day-placements on our regular simulation-based training courses where they are given further mentoring and feedback consolidate learning.
The course is designed for clinical teachers and faculty trainers who intend to use simulation in their clinical contexts. Courses are usually a mix of consultant-level doctors, senior nurses and other health professionals (doctors, nurses, operating department assistants) involved in the delivery of training. Teaching duties of participants usually vary from undergraduate and postgraduate teaching to hospital-based clinical team teaching in acute care settings. A strength of the GAPs programme is it’s emphasis on using clinical simulation to develop participant’s skills to enhance inter-professional team learning.
Educational Goals
At the end of the two-day intensive course using high- and medium-fidelity patient simulation technology course attendees should be able to:
- Use a variety of small group teaching strategies and techniques with simulation to enhance the learning environment for their trainees
- Draw on an enhanced repertoire of formative assessment tools to set an explicit standard of performance in clinical simulations
- Apply concepts of instructional design to align objectives teaching, learning and assessment activities
- Apply educational principles of effective ‘feed up’ ‘feedback’ and ‘feed-forward’ in simulation training and relate these to the design and development of simulation scenarios
- Develop facilitation skills to help their trainees to evaluate technical and non-technical factors which hinder or promote good clinical outcomes
- Be advocates for multi-professional team training using simulation and be able to refer to its evidence base for patient safety
The 2-day Train-the-Trainer programme
The course is delivered over two full days at St George’s hospital, London. It comprises a series of short small group ‘hands on’ simulations, larger scale fixed and mobile exercises and full-scale high-fidelity simulations.
We limit the number of participants to 12, maintaining a ratio of trainers to trainees of 1:3. Simulation scenarios are interspersed with facilitated workshops. These small group interactive sessions focus on the evidence base underlying key themes in clinical simulation.
- Applying educational theory to enhance teaching and learning using simulation
- Learning from current research in healthcare and other industries to improve quality and efficacy.
A major focus of the training is to develop clinical teaching skills. Simulation scenarios provide the ‘backdrop’ for developing these skills in analysing practice. The context of practice will be both individual and team performances. The course is highly interactive and experienced educators give participants’ one-to-one feedback on their feedback. We build and strengthen teaching skills with the aid of video and other tools.
Your Professional development as a Simulation Trainer
Over a 3-6 month period following each Trainer course participants can opt to develop their skills and apply for the award of a Simulation Trainer Certificate. To achieve this they need to show evidence of professional development in their use of clinical simulation following their initial training. Indicators of this include:
- Personal simulation log-books (on design and/or facilitation experiences which may also include review of literature on particular issues, reflections on evaluation of changed practice)
- Peer observations (at least 2) using GAPS observer sheets for debriefing
