Our pillar designs, delivers and evaluates health professional simulation and educational activities within the Emergency Department. We connect educational activities to improve practice and better patient outcomes. 

Collaborating with the Bond University medical program and the Gold Coast Health Simulation Service, we are improving teamwork in acute care, innovation in education, and clinician educator faculty development. 

In 2018, our research was impactful resulting in 8 articles in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at more than 20 conferences.

In addition, we supervised 4 Masters students in 2018, and have increased our supervision in 2019. To promote research across the community, we have also published several podcasts and blog posts.

Pillar aims

Our pillar works to:

• ensure educational activities are evidence based and align with institutional patient care priorities
• develop clinician educators as scholars in medical education
• undertake research projects relevant to our education and simulation activities.

Our team

Name	Job title/s
Dr Eve Purdy	Emergency Department Education Research Fellow
Mr Kristian Krogh	Emergency Department Education Research Fellow
Ms Rebecca Shaw	Emergency Department Education Research Fellow
Ms Belinda Lowe	Bond University Simulation Fellow
Ms Sarah McNamee	Bond University Simulation Fellow
Mr Chris Speirs	Emergency Department Education Research Fellow
Dr Dwain Burridge	Mental Health Education Registrar
Ms Jane Schweitzer	Simulation Educator
Ms Clare Scott	Simulation Instructor Equipment Manager
Ms Simone Myers	Nurse Educator
Mr Jack Matulich	Clinical Facilitator (Practical Training)

 

Research themes

Our research focuses on various themes including:

• teamwork in trauma and acute care
• developing institutional culture through in situ simulation
• peer-assisted simulated learning
• laparoscopic and procedural skills training
• inter-professional education
• faculty development for clinician educators.