Healthcare Simulation Events

Simulated Participant (SP) Training

🧭 Overview:The Simulated Participant (SP) Training program equips healthcare educators and simulation professionals with the skills to recruit, train, and use simulated participants effectively in healthcare simulation. The course focuses on standardization, realism, confidentiality, and feedback delivery, ensuring SPs contribute meaningfully to learner outcomes.

🎓 Learning Objectives:

• Understand the role and scope of simulated participants in simulation-based education. Develop skills for casting, briefing, and debriefing SPs.
• Practice techniques for emotional safety and feedback using structured frameworks.
• Learn strategies for integrating SPs into both formative and summative assessments.

🚀 Learn mode:

• Discussion on ethics, confidentiality, and emotional safety for SPs.
• Group exercises in SP recruitment, casting, and training techniques.
• Script writing and scenario development for counseling, history-taking, and informed consent.
• Reciprocal SP–learner roleplay sessions with structured feedback.
• Development of SP performance checklists and assessment rubrics.
• Reflection and debriefing on SP utilization and faculty facilitation strategies.