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11/10/2026

This is your last chance to join an NHSC26 workshop 📚

NHSC26 kicks off on Wednesday 21 October with a full day of practical, interactive workshops on the Gold Coast.

It’s your chance to go beyond the conference presentations and spend dedicated time learning, discussing and putting new skills and ideas into practice with experienced facilitators.

Places are limited, and this is your final chance to secure a workshop spot.

📅 Wednesday 21 October 2026
📍 QT Gold Coast

Explore the workshops and register: https://www.vicsim.org.au/events/

09/10/2026

Using simulation to strengthen paediatric transport teams 🚑

A new study by Devin A. McKissic and colleagues explores how paediatric critical care transport teams experience simulation-based education, drawing on debriefing sessions from the multicentre ImPACTS transport simulation study.

The findings highlight the potential for simulation to support not only education and team development, but also quality improvement across healthcare systems.

Read the full article here: https://www.ovid.com/jnls/simulationinhealthcare/abstract/10.1097/sih.0000000000000973~impact-of-transport-team-simulations-a-qualitative-analysis?redirectionsource=fulltextview

08/10/2026

ONE WEEK LEFT TO REGISTER ⏰

The National Health Simulation Conference is almost here, and registration officially closes in just one week.

Join us at QT Gold Coast for two days of workshops, keynote presentations, research, practical learning and conversations with the healthcare simulation community.

📅 21 - 22 October 2026
📍 QT Gold Coast

If NHSC26 has been sitting on your calendar but you haven’t registered yet, now’s the time.

Register here: https://www.vicsim.org.au/events/national-health-simulation-conference-2026/

07/10/2026

What happens when you put the healthcare simulation community in one room?

You get new ideas, shared experiences, conversations that continue well beyond the conference, and plenty of opportunities to learn from people tackling the same challenges you are.

At NHSC26, we’re bringing together simulation professionals from across Australia and beyond for two days of workshops, presentations, research and connection on the Gold Coast.

📅 21 - 22 October 2026
📍 QT Gold Coast

There’s still time to join us, with only a few spots remaining. Register now: https://www.vicsim.org.au/events/national-health-simulation-conference-2026/

30/09/2026

What will you take back to your team from NHSC26?

✅ A new approach to debriefing?
✅ A different way to design simulation?
✅ An idea you can put into practice?
✅ A connection with someone facing the same challenges you are?

This conference is about bringing together people working across healthcare simulation to share what’s working, learn from each other and take practical ideas back into their own teams, organisations and communities.

📅 21 - 22 October 2026
📍 QT Gold Coast

Join us at NHSC26 and share under the theme: One community. Shared impact.

Register now, places are limited: https://www.vicsim.org.au/events/national-health-simulation-conference-2026/

28/09/2026

Building stronger communication skills through simulation 🗣️

A new article by Na Guo and colleagues explores an AIDET-informed simulation curriculum designed to help anesthesiology residents practise challenging perioperative conversations with patients and families.

The curriculum combines realistic scenarios, simulated participants, structured observation and debriefing, with preliminary findings showing improved communication performance, greater confidence and lower self-reported stress during difficult conversations.

Read the full article here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41077-026-00482-3

26/09/2026

WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHT | NHSC26 📚

Join us at NHSC26 for Feedback and debriefing with purpose: Enhancing your skills in health professional simulations.

With facilitators A/Prof Melanie Barlow, A/Prof Tess Vawser and Prof Walter Eppich, explore practical, evidence-informed approaches to facilitating psychologically safe, structured and purposeful debriefing conversations that help learners strengthen clinical reasoning, teamwork and communication.

📅 Wednesday 21 October 2026
⏰ 1:00pm - 4:00pm
📍 QT Gold Coast

Register here: https://www.vicsim.org.au/events/nhsc26-workshop-feedback-and-debriefing-with-purpose-enhancing-your-skills-in-health-professional-simulations/

25/09/2026

Have you caught this Simulation Happy Hour podcast ep on value-based simulation in healthcare? 🎙️

In this episode, Katie Walker, co-author of Value-based simulation in healthcare: a new model for metrics reporting, explores a new approach to demonstrating and communicating the value of simulation across healthcare and higher education.

Katie discusses:

👉 Moving beyond traditional simulation metrics
👉 Measuring the value and impact of simulation activities
👉 Applying the value-based simulation model in practice
👉 Tangible ways the model can be used across healthcare and higher education
👉 Strengthening how simulation outcomes are reported and communicated

🎧 Listen to the full podcast episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/value-based-simulation-in-healthcare-a-new-model/id1822466658?i=1000785357811

24/09/2026

There's officially one month to go until NHSC26 🎉

This October, the healthcare simulation community will come together on the Gold Coast for two days of learning, practical workshops, new ideas and conversations about where simulation is heading next.

Under this year’s theme, One Community, Shared Impact, NHSC26 will bring together simulation professionals from across Australia to share knowledge, challenge thinking and strengthen the impact of simulation across healthcare.

📅 21 - 22 October 2026
📍 QT Gold Coast

There’s still time to join us, register now: https://www.vicsim.org.au/events/national-health-simulation-conference-2026/

22/09/2026

Making simulation part of everyday practice 🔄

A new study by Anders Lund Schram and colleagues explores how simulation-based team training became embedded within paediatric departments, looking at the local conditions and practical adjustments that helped it gain a stronger foothold.

The findings highlight the importance of protected time, leadership support, clinically relevant scenarios and repeated participation, with simulation also influencing communication, confidence and how teams approach challenging situations in everyday practice.

Read the full article here: https://www.johs.org.uk/article/doi/10.54531/DHQQ7263

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