Back to Basics
Utpal Bhalala, MD, FCCM
Pediatric Intensivist, Associate Professor, Research Advisor
Driscoll Children's Hospital
Corpus Christi, Texas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Pooja Nawathe, MD, CHSE-A,FCCM
Associate Director Congenital Cardiac ICU
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
Speaker's Bureau - Edwards Life Science Last Minute CEU
As healthcare simulation scholarship grows, robust and generalizable ways of categorizing this scholarship are important. Such categorization frameworks can assist researchers in charting their overall career path and provide a means by which journals can evaluate their current content. Speakers will describe the newly published METRICS framework, a new approach to the classification of simulation scholarship, and provide attendees an opportunity to practice it on existing simulation literature and other presentations. METRICS divides scholarship into seven categories:
1. Metascholarship: scholarly activity focused on the nature and practices of scholarship
2. Evaluation: scholarly activity that makes value decisions such as whether something is good or bad, better or worse
3. Translation: applies techniques, ideas, and models from other fields to another domain
4. Research: seeks to generate, build, or test theories and knowledge about simulation or use of simulation
5. Innovation: creates new devices, techniques, activities, methods, and tools for the advancement of healthcare simulation
6. Conceptual: sets out, challenges, or debates the conceptual and philosophical bases for simulation applied to healthcare
7. Synthesis: reviews existing knowledge and practice by defining what we already know, assessing its strengths and weaknesses, asking what we can do with the available evidence, and delineating future directions for research
The subject of a recent publication in Medical Teacher, METRICS is meant to serve as a guide for those seeking to develop an ongoing program of scholarship in simulation and for reviewers and editors of simulation journals seeking to better characterize the type of scholarship they publish.
Bonus CE Session Faculty: Aaron W. Calhoun, MD, FSSH – University of Louisville
Bonus CE Session Faculty: Kerstin Hudgins, CCRN, MSN, RN, CEN – Fayetteville State University
Bonus CE Session Faculty: Yue Dong, MD, , FSSH – Mayo Clinic
Bonus CE Session Faculty: Michael Kenes, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP – University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
Bonus CE Session Faculty: Tensing Maa, MD – Nationwide Children's Hospital
Bonus CE Session Faculty: Roberta Hales, BS, RN, RRT, MHA – Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia