Development of MediSimScaleTM, an Innovative Training Toolkit for Developing and Scaling Multidisciplinary Simulation Training Workshops Across UPMC

Grant Application

Charles Lin, MD, MSc, UPMC Passavant

Proposed Innovation

Multidisciplinary simulation-based workshops offer an innovative approach to clinician training by emphasizing team-based clinical medicine, which has been shown to improve patient safety and outcomes. Traditional simulation training often focuses on a single discipline at an individual site. Scaling a training workshop from a single site to multiple sites can be complicated with barriers unique to each site.

This project is aimed at developing MediSimScale^TM — a new care pathway for creating and spreading multidisciplinary simulation-based training across multiple UPMC hospitals. This innovative training toolkit will streamline the process of scaling a training workshop so it can be used by multiple disciplines to create their own simulation training workshops.

Improvements in Action

The pilot for MediSimScale^TM will be the expansion of a surgical airway workshop initially developed at UPMC Passavant. The workshop will provide multidisciplinary training in surgical airway management to surgeons and nurse anesthetists at UPMC Presbyterian, UPMC Shadyside, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, and UPMC St. Margaret.

Data on challenges involved in the expansion will be systematically collected and analyzed. These process datapoints will be assembled to create MediSimScale^TM, a toolkit to facilitate future simulation workshop expansions.

Intended Outcomes

MediSimScale^TM will enable other clinician-educators to develop and expand multidisciplinary simulation workshops with greater efficiency and ease across UPMC, maximizing reach and impact. These workshops are expected to foster interprofessional communication and teamwork, while also improving patient safety and outcomes across the health care system.