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The Center for Medical Simulation

The Center for Medical Simulation

Written by: Center for Medical Simulation
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 A nurse preceptor has just watched a trainee commit a serious error despite hours of lecture, reading, and hands on training. In spite of herself, she starts to heat up, much like the more severe clinical educators who trained her years ago. “Why can’t you just get this right?” An ICU attending asks her resident to call her if a patient’s hematocrit drops under a certain value. Despite this agreement, and despite the patient deteriorating, the resident never calls. “Are you an idiot? Why didn’t you call me?” In these moments, how do we reset ourself to a place of care, curiosity, and compassion? How do we model a better culture of learning? How do we have our judgment, instead of our judgment having us? In “Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph,” a social scientist takes on the hidden structures that shape our behavior, culture, communication, and learning in healthcare. In this interactive podcast, Jenny Rudolph, PhD, FSSH, will help listeners approach the thoughts, feelings, and judgments underlying their reactions in a psychologically safer manner, helping us to better connect with curiosity and compassion to the people around us, especially when we feel that they’ve done something “wrong.” This podcast will include weekly challenges to examine your own thinking, including follow-up with listeners and experts about their experience on the journey to Good Judgment. Jenny Rudolph has made a career exploring what makes clinicians, healthcare organizations, and health professions training programs tick. Underneath the surface of intelligent, capable people who care about doing their best are hidden patterns that interfere with how they perform. Hierarchy, ego, communication glitches, resilience, power, professional learning, and how learning happens all flow downstream into creating actions that work and actions that don’t. Jenny found out the hard way that being too certain can get you in trouble. Demoted from third to second grade for poor academic performance when she arrived in Jaipur, India as an eight-year-old, she realized she had better get curious about how her new school and culture ran, and that curiosity has remained with her ever since. Jenny now works with clinicians around the world to help them develop their own love of that little dopamine drip of rewarding surprise when you find out something new about your colleagues and how they think. Whether trying to figure out a diagnosis, discovering what a learner is thinking, or upping your own clinical mastery, getting Curious Now is the solution. Curious Now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP?si=890ed4b02bfe4838 Curious Now on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822 -------------------- Founded in 1993, the Center for Medical Simulation was one of the world's first healthcare simulation centers and continues to be a global leader in the field. Simulation training at CMS gives healthcare providers a new and enlightening perspective on how to handle real medical situations. Through high-fidelity scenarios that simulate genuine crisis management situations, the CMS experience can open new chapters in the level of healthcare quality that participants provide. Find out more and apply for CMS simulation workshops at www.harvardmedsim.org.All rights reserved Science
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    Agency is the Power to Act | CMS Book Club Live at #IMSH2026 Roxane Gardner and Grace Ng react to Shawn Kanungo’s keynote talk on innovation at #IMSH2026. Watch here: https://youtu.be/tbUfYHhM3kE Roxane and Grace both felt that the content of the talk was surprisingly supportive, especially for an ‘innovator’ who was speaking about the role of AI in the changing industry. Much in the way that we talk at CMS about not imposing simulation from the top down as a prepackaged education solution, but instead partnering with teams to learn what they need to help them feel ready and then using simulation as a tool among many to get them there, Shawn helped to position agentic and generative AI in the same way. Grace was pleased to hear the discussion of agency, and tools that empower people to do things rather than replacing them—her PhD work on nursing agency and how nurses can be empowered to activate rapid response teams, and that seemed very relevant to the moment as we figure out how these tools will shape our work. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822 #curiousnow #healthcaresimulation #medicine #nursing
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  • Change Comes From Curiosity and Caring | Curious Now Live at #IMSH2026

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    Change Comes from Curiosity and Caring | Curious Now Live at #IMSH2026 Commenting on Kevin Brown’s “The Hero Effect” – How do we bring our presence to ordinary moments? Jenny Rudolph, James Lipshaw, and Jenny Bourque discuss Kevin Brown’s story of a chef using an encounter with his son’s specific dietary restrictions as the launch point for a higher standard which makes Disney’s restaurants more accessible to diners with dietary needs. How can we not just design our programs, but also carry ourselves in individual conversations, in everyday moments, and lead our industry in a way that ensures that we are creating a standard of access and a standard of service that serves everyone, especially the people whose stories aren’t being heard in the rooms where leadership meets? #curiousnow #healthcaresimulation #medicine #nursing
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  • Ready to Work Creatively Whether Our Organization Likes It Or Not | Dare to Be Ready Live at #IMSH2026

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    Ready to Work Creatively Whether Our Organization Likes It Or Not | Dare to Be Ready Live at #IMSH2026 Chris Roussin reacts to Tania Katan Keynote Lecture at #IMSH2026 on The Dare to Be Ready Podcast “You need to be different from the status quo to make change.” What does it mean to be called to innovate and work creatively in an organization that is ready and asking for it, versus in an organization that isn’t? Some organizations have leadership that is passionate about quickly squashing creativity. How do we help people to create change and create readiness in a new way without it feeling like we’re launching it at them from a consultant helicopter as we fly away? Some advice from the talk that verged away from rah-rah and into the practical that we really liked: 1) Think about a limitation that you have at work, and consider how that limitation could actually be an opportunity for you; 2) Say what your job title is and then imagine a job title more accurate and appropriate to what you do. More live reactions from Jenny Rudolph, Roxane Gardner, and Grace Ng coming in the next few days! #daretobeready #healthcaresimulation #medicine #nursing
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