In this Issue
Executive Director’s Update
Jennifer Manos
I would like to begin this update by thanking all of you for your membership with SSH. Without your contributions, dedication, and commitment we
could not begin to achieve all we have accomplished over the past several years. Thank you to everyone for voting on the SSH Bylaws. With the engagement of our membership we were able to achieve the highest voter turnout in SSH history. Any member who participated in the voting process was automatically entered into a drawing.
I am pleased to announce the winners for each category:
IMSH 2016 Free Registrations
• Timothy Fortuna
• Thomaz Bittencourt Couto
• Thomas Dongilli
One-year Free SSH Membership
• Sharon Meadows
• Stephen Tarver
• John Mechtel
Free copy of Defining Excellence in Healthcare Simulation Programs
• Marcia Stout
• Russell Doerr
• Annette Benson
Each winner will be contacted individually by Andrea Maxwell. If you have not yet been contacted with information about how to redeem your award please contact Andrea at
amaxwell@ssih.org for more information.
The SSH staff continues to be hard at work this Spring. Most recently, we launched the abstract submission process for IMSH 2016. The theme for IMSH 2016 is
Discover, Share, Lead. Please join us in San Diego January 16 – 20, 2016 as we
Discover new possibilities,
Share the potential, and
Lead healthcare simulation into the future. Please visit
http://www.ssih.org/Events/IMSH-2016 for more information about IMSH and to submit your abstract or course proposal. Remember, the deadline for submission is
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 5:00pm Central Daylight Time (GMT -5).
Recently SSH President, Pamela Andreatta, became a CHSE. I would like to congratulate Pamela and the over 500 simulation educators who have become certified. This is an amazing accomplishment! To learn more about CHSE, CHSE-A, and CHSOS please visit http://www.ssih.org/Certification. Want more information on exam preparation? Visit the website and mark your calendar for the next in-person CHSE prep workshop to be held June 13, 2015 at Washington State University, Spokane Campus in Spokane, Washington. You can learn all about the CHSE Exam Prep Workshops by visiting http://www.ssih.org/Events/CHSE-Prep-Workshops
Finally, as simulation continues to be the preferred choice for Interprofessional education and systems integration, I would like to announce the Institute of Medicine’s latest report:
Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes. A special thank you to SSH member, Janice Palaganas, for providing the information below and the link to download the free report.
Over the past half century, there have been ebbs and flows of interest in linking what is now called interprofessional education (IPE) with interprofessional collaboration and team-based care. Whereas considerable research has focused on student learning, only recently have researchers begun to look beyond the classroom and beyond learning outcomes for the impact of IPE on such issues as patient safety, patient and provider satisfaction, quality of care, health promotion, population health, and the cost of care. In 2013, the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education held two workshops on IPE. At these workshops, a number of questions were raised, the most important of which was “What data and metrics are needed to evaluate the impact of IPE on individual, population, and system outcomes?” To answer this question, the Forum’s 47 individual sponsors requested that an IOM consensus committee be convened to examine the existing evidence on this complex issue and consider the potential design of future studies that could expand this evidence base.
A new IOM report examines the methods needed to measure the impact that interprofessional education (IPE) has on collaborative practice and health and system outcomes. The value of IPE—which occurs when learners of two or more health and/or social care professions engage in learning with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration and the delivery of care—has been embraced worldwide, but many in leadership positions have questioned how IPE affects patient, population, and health system outcomes. This question cannot be fully answered without well-designed studies, and these studies cannot be conducted without an understanding of the methods and measurements needed to conduct such an analysis.
The IOM report recommends actions that interprofessional stakeholders, funders, policy makers, health profession educators, and academic and health system leaders can take to better measure the impact of IPE on collaborative practice and health and system outcomes. The committee also puts forth a conceptual model for evaluating IPE that could be adapted to particular settings in which it is applied.
Download the report for free at
www.iom.edu/IPE.
I wish all of you a wonderful May and once again thank you for your membership with SSH! Please feel free to contact me anytime with questions, concerns, or feedback!
SSH Executive Director