About 150 Simulation Clinicians and Tech are gathered at Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center this week for the US conference on the specialty.
The group is called the Gathering of Healthcare Simulation Technology Specialists or the acronym GHOSTS. The SimGHOSTS 2016 Symposium participants get to learn the latest and greatest simulation technologies, tools and practices.
Dustin Holzwarth is a Simulation Specialist at Jump and a presenter at the conference. He says conference participants also benefit greatly from getting to spend time together.
“Several things get talked about here. There’s always controversies with sim on some centers have this as a policy, and some centers have a completely different policy. There’s a lot of things to talk about, there’s a lot of conversations that happen and everybody's story kind of gets out there on what they’re doing.”
Holzwarth says one of the most controversial policies they talk about is whether to allow the manikin to die when the practitioner or student fails at the simulation exercise. He says at Jump Trading Simulation Center they do not kill off the manikins in the event the practitioner or student fails at the simulated procedure. Holzwarth says they see that as harmful to the learning process.
The 2015 US SimGHOSTS Symposium was at Cedars-Sinai in Beverly Hills. In addition to the Peoria Symposium this year there are three others in Melbourne, London and Dubai.