About the authors

Mike Davis PhD MEd DASE Cert Ed FAcadMEd is a freelance consultant in continuing medical education, working mainly within the life support community and with extensive experience in the UK and throughout the world. He is the author of two other books in the How to … series and other education texts. He has written and refereed for a variety of medical education journals and is on the Editorial Board of BMJ‐STEL. He has been lead educator for the Advanced Life Support Group since 1995 and for six years, he was educational adviser to the PHROST project based at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He is also an educator with ATLS, IMPACT and ETC. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at Keele University.

Jacky Hanson BSc MBChB FRCS FRCEM is an emergency medicine consultant, Director of Simulation and Associate Undergraduate Dean at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. She has interests in educational research, human factors and ergonomics including non‐technical skills and developing simulation training regionally and nationally. She has presented on simulation to national and international audiences. She was Director of CPD and Revalidation for RCEM and is an examiner for FRCEM and a member of the RCEM simulation group. Jacky contributed to the design and development of the simulation centre at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and has been clinical lead since its inception.

Mike Dickinson RGN DipIMC (RCS Edinburgh) IFNA PGDip FETC is currently Manager of the Simulation and Clinical Skills unit at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He qualified as an RGN in 1982 and has worked in various areas of the UK and internationally, including the USA and Africa. He has extensive knowledge of training design and programme development in the critical care field. Mike is an examiner for the Faculty of Pre‐Hospital Care (Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh) and is an instructor in multiple internationally recognised life support courses. He has presented internationally on various aspects of SBME.

Lorna Lees SRN qualified as a registered nurse in 1982 and eventually became ward sister on a neurology ward before leaving nursing to bring up her family. Her involvement with SBME started in 2011 when she was appointed to the role of simulation technician and subsequently training administrator and co‐ordinator. She continues to play an active role in the provision of SBME not only as a training co‐ordinator but also assisting with facilitation.

Mark Pimblett RODP contributed to the design and development of the state‐of‐the‐art Lancashire Simulation Centre (based at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals) where he currently works as a high‐tech clinical skills facilitator. His professional background is in operating department practice, specialising mainly in anaesthesia and emergency medicine. He crossed over into medical education in 2003, incorporating his clinical experience and his interest in technologies to establish human patient simulation training within the north west region of England. Mark is an international speaker on all aspects of human patient simulation, including simulation centre design, scenario development, performance analysis and technology innovation. He is an expert trainer in human factors and a specialist in video debrief and feedback.

We would also like to thank the following:

Chris Busuttil FRCSEd (A&E) FRCEM qualified in 1996 at Imperial College School of Medicine, London. He was first appointed as a consultant in 2008 and currently works in emergency medicine at the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. He is an examiner and Simulation & NTS Committee member (Wessex Region), Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Chris wrote the section in Chapter 12 on ‘Ethical considerations in the video recording of simulation’.

Alison Gale MB ChB FRCOG MMedEd FAcadMEd is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist and the Director of Postgraduate Medical Education at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. She has educational leadership responsibilities at local, regional and national levels, including Simulation Lead for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2009–2016) and NACT UK Council representative for the North West (2014–2016). She is a current MRCOG Examiner and a member of the MRCOG Part 3 subcommittee.

Jo‐Anne Halliwell RGN MSc BSc DPSN PG Cert is currently working as clinical improvement lead for adult and long‐term conditions as part of the community nursing team and has extensive experience of working in various areas of the NHS, including operating departments and anaesthetics. As a practice development nurse and lead facilitator in simulation‐based medical education, she helped commission the simulation unit at Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She has extensive experience of programme design and risk management assessment and, with Simon Tucker, she wrote ‘Enhancing patient safety through multidisciplinary in situ simulation’ in Chapter 11.

Helen Higham MBChB FRCA SFHEA has been a consultant anaesthetist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2001 and is a senior clinical research fellow in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford. She is Director of the University of Oxford’s Simulation Centre (www.oxstar.ox.ac.uk/) and is co‐director of the Patient Safety Academy, providing training and support to healthcare professionals in the application of human factors to improve quality and safety across the Thames Valley LETB (www.patientsafetyacademy.co.uk/). She is a current executive member and immediate past president of the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) in the UK.

Alison Quinn MB ChB FRCA is an ST7 in Anaesthetics in the North West Deanery. She has previously completed a fellowship in Medical Education and Simulation with LTHTR and the University of Manchester. She now holds an honorary lecturer post with the assessment team at Manchester Medical School where she is currently lead for the year 4 ‘Movement’ OSCE. Alison holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Education and her main areas of interest include assessment and human patient simulation. She wrote Chapter 8 on formative assessment.

Libby Thomas BMBS MCEM PGDipClinEd is an emergency medicine specialist trainee and PhD student in medical education focusing on interprofessional full patient simulation for undergraduates. She is module lead for Simulation in Clinical Education at King’s College London. Libby made useful suggestions and introduced us to the idea of sociological realism (Chapter 5).

Simon Tucker BSc MBChB MRCS (Edinburgh) FCEM is a consultant in emergency medicine at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. He is an ALS and APLS instructor and through these had some experience of low‐fidelity simulation. His introduction to high‐fidelity simulation occurred when he volunteered to assist in the undergraduate and Foundation SBME programme. He has contributed to the implementation of in situ simulation, using incident reporting and risk management to identify significant or recurrent events, then using simulation to explore how these may have occurred. This information can then be used to change policies or develop the environment to prevent recurrence and reduce patient risk. With Jo‐Anne Halliwell, he wrote ‘Enhancing patient safety through multidisciplinary in situ simulation’ in Chapter 11.

Dr Kirsten Walthall MBChB MRCEM MSc(MedEd) PGCert is ST5 in Emergency Medicine, North Western Deanery. She graduated from Manchester Medical School in 2008 and obtained a PGCert (Merit) in Leadership and Management (Healthcare) during FY2. After completing ACCS, she took 2 years out of training to pursue her interest in medical education and simulation, before returning to full‐time training in 2015. Kirsten has developed simulation courses for emergency medicine trainees, run the simulation competition at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine conference in 2015 and continues to deliver regular simulation‐based education. She completed her MSc (MedEd) with Merit in 2016. She wrote the section on social media and simulation in Chapter 12. Her Twitter handle is: @K_Walthall.

James Wilson MBChB FRCA PGCE is a consultant anaesthetist with an interest in regional anaesthesia and medical education. He has taught medical students from the beginning of his career and now teaches doctors and allied health professionals across a variety of courses. His exposure to human patient simulation started at medical school; this interest grew and led to a medical education fellowship year at Lancashire Simulation Centre between core and specialty training. He now teaches as faculty on a variety of simulation‐based courses. Interests within SBME include human factors, video feedback and analysis and predicting performance. He was lead author on the section in Chapter 12 on ‘Using technology to facilitate effective feedback’ and Chapter 14 on ‘Training for simulation faculty’.

Sarah Wood MB ChB FRSC MA is a consultant in paediatric surgery at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. She has an interest in medical education and simulation, facilitating both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and courses with a special interest in communication and debrief. She was lead author on the section...