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Hello Everyone,
I hope that everyone has enjoyed the summer heat so far. Some of us have had our fill of it. I wanted to reach out to aLL of the members of the Surgical SIG because if you have not had a chance to see it, I along with the tremendous help of Stas, developed our web page. I am emailling everyone, because there may be things such as notices or up coming events, articles that we may want to post on the site. Also if anyone is creative it owuld be great if we came up with a logo. I appreciate everyone's help with this,
-Stephanie
co chair of the Surgical SIG
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Stephanie Landmesser
Director of Simulation
Main Line health
Wynnewood PA
United States
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Hello Jacqueline, we have had a payment structure in place for several years.  Here is what we've learned:

Thanks, Jacqueline - this is a great question and probably very timely for a lot of us who are investigating different ways of structuring our financial support. I'd love it if everyone would post to the e-group, so we can all follow and see the pros/cons of different ways of doing things.

As for my hospital-based simulation program, we just opened our Simulation Center last fall, so are very early in any evidence-based ways of knowing what works or doesn't as far as how to budget. As it stands now, the hospital funds everything to support the program without any charge-backs or up-front funding from any other sources. It was considered an investment we needed to make in continuously improving the quality of care and patient safety within our large hospital system. Having said that, though, we are actively investigating different funding structures for sustainability since we really serve such a variety of learners and priorities, and have such potential for growth and further programmatic development. Our program is multi-disciplinary, serving not only our hospital's clinical and non-clinical support staff, but also the physicians (including residents and fellows) from our affiliated medical school. We also have growing interest from external clinicians in the surrounding community, including other hospitals and the pre-hospital care community, so there is definitely a desire on our part to develop a financial model for "paying customers" if the purpose serves our mission. 

Again, I'm very interested in thoughts, recommendations, and/or just "stories" from all of you on this subject, so will hang back and read as the postings come through.


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Kelly Wallin, MS, RN
Operational Director
The Simulation Center at Texas Children's Hospital
1102 Bates St, Suite 1980
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 832/826-5701
Email: kdwallin@texaschildrens.org
URL:www.texaschildrens.org
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-28-2010 19:12
From: Jacqueline Spiegel
Subject: Allocation of center costs


Hello fellow Directors,

Since we are a non-revenue generating dept of the university, we are restructuring our budget and how to allocate simulation costs back to programs.  There are several formats we are tossing around.  I would like to get a feel for what others are doing out there and your experience:

1) Do you use a per student per year allocation structure?  If so how do you determine cost per student?
2) Do you have a formula for estimating program usage categories (low medium high) or do you just treat all programs as equal users?
2) Do you have students incur a seperate lab fee or does it just come from program budgets?  If so what are the pros and cons of either?
3) Do you get a lump sum at the beginning of the year which you work off of or do you receive allocations based on monthly or quarterly expenses?   What are the pros and cons of either of these?
4) Did you notice a change in your center usage by programs who now were required to allocate a portion of their budget to offset simulation usage costs?

Any help is very much appreciated.

Jacqueline Spiegel
Director
Midwestern University
Glendale AZ
United States
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Hello fellow Directors,

Since we are a non-revenue generating dept of the university, we are restructuring our budget and how to allocate simulation costs back to programs.  There are several formats we are tossing around.  I would like to get a feel for what others are doing out there and your experience:

1) Do you use a per student per year allocation structure?  If so how do you determine cost per student?
2) Do you have a formula for estimating program usage categories (low medium high) or do you just treat all programs as equal users?
2) Do you have students incur a seperate lab fee or does it just come from program budgets?  If so what are the pros and cons of either?
3) Do you get a lump sum at the beginning of the year which you work off of or do you receive allocations based on monthly or quarterly expenses?   What are the pros and cons of either of these?
4) Did you notice a change in your center usage by programs who now were required to allocate a portion of their budget to offset simulation usage costs?

Any help is very much appreciated.

Jacqueline Spiegel
Director
Midwestern University
Glendale AZ
United States
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Dear Friends,

   I am in the process of submitting abstracts to the SSH meeting and would love to collaborate with interested partners for a workshop that could be sponsored by our Director's SIG.  John and I have communicated regarding workshop topics.  I am interested in a workshop that would be a "Hands on" or "How to be an effective Director" or "Director's Manual 101".  This could be a workshop for the beginner Director to learn the lessons from the field.  Multiple Center's perspectives would be an awesome show for our SIG to mentor our Director's with less experience.

   The other idea I had was in creating a workshop that would eventuate in a Director's Handbook.  This would be a "meeting of the minds" type of workshop where a team of Directors would work on specific topics:  Budgets, SOPs, Writing Cases, etc...and as a team come up with an outline of a book we could publish that would be our contribution to the literature as a group.

   I have several other abstracts I am interested in working on, so if you have the time, inclination, interest or energy, you can e-mail me directly and I will send you my current drafts. 

   Deadline for submission is Monday, July 19th, so time is of the essence.

Take care,

Dawn

dschock1@health.usf.edu

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Dawn Schocken
Director, Center for Advanced Clinical Learning
University of So. FL/Medicine
Tampa FL
United States
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Greetings Director's SIG members-

As we move closer to the next IMSH, I'd like to remind you that the SSH leadership would like us to lead and participate in several venues of the meeting, including expert panels, small group discussions, poster, etc. or any other new idea that we can conjure up.  These would be 'sponsored' by our SIG.  If anyone out there has any ideas about such events, please let me know.  I'd be happy to facilitate whatever I can to showcase our SIG.  Thanks.
John

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John Shatzer, PhD
Associate Professor of Medical Education
Director, Center for Experiential Learning and Assessment
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN USA
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Hi everyone,

Once again, I am seeking the collective wisdom of our simulation community.

We are in the process of drafting a policy regarding data security for media that we have recorded in our simulation center. Our Simulation Committee would like to know if anyone has a current method in place to maintain the confidentiality of filmed students and faculty (audio/visual) in a college setting?

We have a release policy drafted, but now we are looking at the security side of this policy.

Thank you all.

John

John E. Gillespie¦Director Clinical Simulation Operations¦Galen College of Nursing ¦1031 Zorn Ave., Suite 400 ¦Louisville, KY 40207

502.410.6287 ¦jgillespie@galencollege.edu¦www.galencollege.edu

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Greetings-
I have been poking around for rheumatology simulations, mainly joint injection and aspiration, but finding only one vendor out there that manufactures them; Limbs and Things.  I'd love to hear about any others.  Thanks
-John

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John Shatzer, PhD
Associate Professor of Medical Education
Director, Center for Experiential Learning and Assessment
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN USA
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Brian

check out
http://www.kbport.com/products/pse/
"Kb Port LLC's wallpaper and curtain scenes allow you to easily convert your training environment into the realistic scenario of your choice. "


Richard

No Conflict of Interest
Chuck Miller has reached way down into the weeds to give me a hand up more than once




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Original Message:
Sent: 05-30-2010 12:28
From: Brian J Parker
Subject: Policy Manual

Hi, everyone.



Second, has anyone found a vendor that might provide some "backdrops" for the room to make the environment a bit more realistic?  I thought about taking a hi-def photo of several ICU walls and having murals made from the photos  for three walls of the sim room but if there are some commercial alternatives I wiould appreciate hearing about them as well.

Thanks,
Brian

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Our Sim Center has only been open since January 2009, so we don't have any history to base a "replacement" cycle on for capital budgets.

Does anyone have a capital budget plan for their major simulators / manikins? Or have any experience or history insight into how long these things last?

I'm not talking about upgrades because a newer/better model is available, I'm talking about a simulator needing replacement to continue to provide the same quality training.

The major simulators that we have that I'm concerned about are - Gaumard Noelle; Laerdal SimMan, SimBaby, SimNewB, Harvey; METI HPS and PediaSim; Mentice VIST and Simbionix GI Mentor II. We also have the Simulab TraumaMan System, and consistently replace the skin, which I'm unsure if we can indefinitely keep doing this or if the "system" will have to be replaced at some point too.

Thanks for any insight!

Jen

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Jennifer Calzada
Administrative Director
Tulane Center for Advanced Medical Simulation & Team Training
Simcenter.Tulane.edu
504-988-9140 office
jcalzada@tulane.edu

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