Our pillar designs, delivers and evaluates health professional simulation and educational activities within the Emergency Department and at interfaces with our colleagues in the hospital. We connect educational activities to improve practice and better patient outcomes.
Collaborating with the Bond University Translational Simulation Collaborative and the Gold Coast Health Simulation Service, we are improving teamwork in acute care, driving innovation in health professions education, and supporting clinician educator faculty development. This work has resulted in 14 peer reviewed publication in 2020 and numerous conference presentations.
We supervised 10 Masters students in 2020, and have increased our supervision in 2021. 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 |
|---|---|
| Professor Victoria Brazil |
Pillar Lead Emergency Department Physician |
| Dr Warwick Isaacson |
Emergency Department Physician |
| Dr Eve Purdy |
Emergency Department Education Research Fellow |
| Mr Chris Speirs |
Emergency Department Education Research Fellow |
| Ms Nemat Alsaba |
Geriatric Emergency Physician |
| Ms Sonia Twigg |
Paediatric Emergency Physician |
| Mr David Lawless |
Emergency Department Physician |
| Ms Ruth-Ellen Marks |
Education Registrar |
| Ms Charlotte Alexander |
Research Registrar |
| Ms Jane Schweitzer |
Simulation Educator |
| Ms Clare Scott |
Simulation Instructor Equipment Manager |
| Ms Lucy Bills |
Clinical Nurse Facilitator |
| Mr Jack Matulich |
Clinical Facilitator (Practical Training) |
|
Ms Belinda Lowe |
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Conjoint Associate Professor of Women's Health |
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.
Current Projects
- Exploring the bidirectional effect of psychological safety in a longitudinal simulation program
- Getting to the CT Scanner Fast and Safe
- Relational Coordination (in Trauma, Post-Partum Hemorrhage)
- Understanding and shaping rituals in emergency medicine (rounds, simulation activities)
- The impact of a simulation faculty development project on translational simulation activity at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service.
- Educators practices for preparation of nurses for simulation-based education at Gold Coast University Hospital. (Jane Schweitzer)
- Virtual Reality Laparoscopic simulation program (Belinda Lowe)
- COVID-19 shaping trauma care (Lucy Francis)
Recent Digital Scholarship
- Why simulation training might be a bad idea – Victoria Brazil
- Safe, not soft – hitting the sweet spot for simulation-based education – Victoria Brazil and Eve Purdy
- Ready, set, go – how to make the most of your laparoscopic simulator – Belinda Lowe
- Disrupting the OK plateau – Warwick Isaacson and Victoria Brazil
- Stay up to date on the Simulcast hosted by Victoria Brazil
