ASPiH, aka The Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare, is a UK-based non-profit membership organization celebrating 15 years at the ASPiH 2024: Transformative Simulation Conference November 3-5, 2024, in Edinburgh, Scotland. ASPiH is made up of professionals from the fields of healthcare, education, and patient safety. These members include researchers, learning technologists, workforce development managers, education managers, administrators, healthcare staff, and students. Members of the ASPiH tend to have a genuine interest in both new and innovative methods of learning and wish to optimize the use of available clinical simulation resources across their work. As a media partner, this article by HealthySimulation.com Content Manager Dr. Teresa Gore will provide an overview of the upcoming ASPiH 2024: Transformative Simulation Conference.
What is Transformative Simulation?
A simulation paradigm shift that focuses on Innovation, Improvement, Interventions, Involvement, Identification, Inclusion, and Influence. ASPiH is moving into a new era where the focus of simulation practices in transforming patient and staff safety and experience is becoming the norm and not the exception. The application of simulation to explore systems thinking, identify and analyze problems, influence organizational behaviors, engage patients and stakeholders, and collectively develop new innovative care interventions is gaining momentum and evidence.
The emerging horizon of Transformative Simulation requires a dedicated platform for the sharing of successes, local expertise, and experts to amplify their voices, fostering an environment where knowledge is not only shared but actively built upon and collaboratively expanded. ASPiH 2024 will engage with regulators, educational bodies, commercial partners, patients, and colleagues to provide an innovative, equitable, and sustainable conference. We continue to strive for equity, diversity, inclusion, and sustainability and hope that ASPiH 2024 is not only a year to celebrate ASPiH’s achievements but one that forms solid foundations for the next 15 years of the Association and for simulation practices in health and care.
View the LEARN CE/CME Platform Webinar Transformative Healthcare Simulation: to learn more!
Why Should You Attend ASPiH 2024 in Edinburg, Scotland?
- Meet and network with practitioners who are key players, influencers, and decision-makers in simulation-based education and training.
- Be seen alongside your industry peers and competitors to confirm your organization’s status in the simulated-based education marketplace.
- Take a prime position at the largest gathering of simulation-based education and technology-enhanced learning professionals in the UK.
Pre-Conference Virtual: Friday, November 1, 2024
- Psychological Safety and Diffiut Debriefing: Navigating the Nuances by Adam CHeng and Vicent Grant. This highly interactive workshop provides an opportunity to learn from and with debriefing experts on how to identify potential barriers to psychological safety and proactively create solutions, recognize verbal and non-verbal indicators that psychological safety might be breached, and develop strategies to react and manage difficult debriefing conversations. Participants will also benefit from cognitive aids developed by the facilitator panel.
Pre-Conference Workshops: Sunday, November 3, 2024
- An Introduction to Qualitative Research in Simulation: Laying Down Solid Foundations : This workshop is aimed at those completing or hoping to undertake qualitative research projects in the field of simulation, at novice to intermediate level. It will support participants through the process of identifying a research area, formulating a research question, and designing a study. Different approaches to data collection and analysis will be presented, and participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own project or idea with peers and experts in the field, in a supportive and collaborative environment.
- The Tenses of Simulation: Past, Present, & Transformativ e: “A tool to transform health & care through collective understanding, insight, and learning.” In this workshop we ask you to bring Case Studies that are or may be TS. *We will contact you between Booking and Conference to discuss any case studies you may be considering bringing to the discussion. Thus we will ensure we have a suitable spread of content for the workshop, and that you are confident about your case studies offer.
- Simulate to Accelerate : Reduced time to capability through accelerated learning by NHS Scotland Academy, Innovation and Learning: This pre-conference workshop will explore how multi-modal simulation has been utilised to accelerate workforce training programmes to address workforce requirements in NHS Scotland. As part of this workshop delegates will understand the underlying educational principles of accelerated learning programmes and explore the use of different types of simulation in accelerated learning. Delegates will develop an outline for their own simulation-based acceleration programme using the NHS Scotland Academy principles which may be implemented within their own organisation. This will include developing an implementation plan which will address any barriers to the successful implementation of this accelerated programme.
- Empathy in Action: mastering “Humane Factors” in work : Join us for “Empathy in Action” an AI & VR workshop where cutting-edge simulation and educational design meets the crucial skills of workplace kindness and support. Experience first-hand the impact of incivility through our virtual reality scenarios designed to engage your emotions and challenge your responses. Consider with us the art of using the right words at the right time with our AI-powered skills development sessions. Practice your newly acquired skills in a safe, AI-simulated environment, enabling you to rehearse and perfect your interactions before putting them to the test. We will share our NHS Lothian learning journey with you and guarantee you will leave this workshop not just informed but transformed!
Keynote Speakers
- Professor Steven Yule will deliver the keynote talk ‘How human factors can contribute to improvement of teams performance and patient safety’ on Monday, November 4, 2024.
- Professor Roger Kneebone, Professor of Surgical Education and Engagement Science, Imperial College London, will deliver the keynote talk ‘The transformation of simulation over time’ on Monday, November 4, 2024. Roger is a clinician and educationalist who leads the Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Music–Imperial Centre for Performance Science. His multidisciplinary research into contextualized simulation and embodied knowledge builds on his personal experience as a surgeon and a general practitioner and his fascination with domains of expertise beyond medicine. Since 2019, he has been the 14th professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy of Arts.
- Dr Claire Kilbride, MBChB, DTM, FRCEM will deliver the keynote talk ‘Simulation in Global Health Partnerships’ on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Claire is a Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine and Global Health at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. After completing a tropical medicine diploma in Belgium, Claire started working with Medicine Sans Frontières. After her first two projects in Uganda and South Sudan, she returned to the UK to complete ACCS EM training in London. She then returned to MSF, working in Ethiopia, Yemen and Sierra Leone while working in emergency departments in the UK between projects. She spent two years working in Barcelona in an MSF headquarters position within the MSF Field Simulation Team. She now works with Dharura, a Global Emergency Care Partnership between the Bristol Royal Infirmary Emergency Department and Laikipia County in Kenya. Through this partnership, simulation facilitators from Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital, with support from visiting volunteers from the Bristol Royal Infirmary, run a simulation program in the regional hospital and surrounding clinics, amongst other development and quality improvement projects across the county.
Sponsors
- 2024 Platinum Sponsors
- Gaumard
- Laerdal
- 2024 Gold Sponsors
- Adam,Rouilly
- Oxford Medical Simulation
- 2024 Silver Sponsors
- Surgical Science
- Elevate Healthcare (Formerly CAE)
2024 Exhibitors
The Conference Sponsorship and Exhibition 2024 is almost sold out. Make sure to visit these vendors and thank them for supporting ASPiH and the simulation community:
- Medi Scientific
- Body Swaps
- Simulaids
- VirtaMed
- CSkills
- Qualsafe
- Swansea University
- Sentria XR
- Medtribe
- Intelligent Ultrasound
- Limbs & Things
- Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
- Scotia Medical Observation and Training System (SMOTS)
- Sim & Skills
- iRIS Scenario Design System
- Bookr
- Media Partners
- HealthySimulation.com
- SimZine
Call to Action for Sponsoring Simulation Technicians
There were many successes from last year’s conference in Brighton which will roll over into the 2024 conference in Edinburgh. The option to sponsor simulation technicians to attend last year’s conference was a huge success that gave over 60 simulation technicians to opportunity to attend the conference in Brighton. Feedback from simulation technicians was overwhelmingly positive with the majority saying that they would not be able to attend this conference without this financial support. ASPiH is inviting an organization to sponsor simulation technicians to attend this year’s conference in Edinburgh.
About ASPiH
Bridging undergraduate and pre-registration education, postgraduate and post-registration training, and ongoing Continued Professional Development, membership in ASPiH is available to all health and social care workforce members. Through this membership, the association is dedicated to forming a collaborative community to improve the quality, safety, and effectiveness of patient care by advancing excellence in simulation in healthcare within workforce development and clinical practice.
