Dear SESAM participant,

During SESAM 2013 we plan to run a workshop with representatives of national societies and a small get-together the day before. The workshop has not a set date yet, but it will be decided during the next couple of days. We hope that you can join us again, and we promise a very active workshop where an agenda for a set of joint actions can be drawn.

Clinical skills training and medical simulation is building momentum in Europe and there are a lot of activities running parallel in many EU countries. It seems more efficient to join forces and try to create joint project where collaboration can create a larger pool of opportunities and a stronger lobby organisation towards our EU politicians.

One goal of this international initiative is to exchange experience and reflect on how the different societies are organized, financed, structured and what professions are represented within the respective countries.

 

The main goal though is to materialize the exchange of experience with project ideas that can be driven on a European level like for example:

 

1. Discuss the possibility of a European medical simulation, nursing simulation and/or interprofessional simulation curriculum.
2. Sesam/EU certification of the clinical skills and simulation centers in accordance with the EU societies. Instructor certification may remain a national priority?
3. How to position a society in terms of providing insights to patients and professionals in health, such as the 'Quality Label for Validated Games' 

The format of the workshop is World Café, as follows:

The process begins with the first of two rounds of twenty minutes of conversation for small groups. During each round those questions above are taken up. At the end of the twenty minutes, each member of the group moves to a different new table leaving one person as the "table host" for the next round, who welcomes the next group and briefly fills them in on what happened in the previous round. Further discussions within the new groups will help to define or improve the results.

After the two small-group discussions, individuals are invited to share insights or other results from their conversations with the rest of the large group. One of the expected outcomes of the workshop is a list of collaboration opportunities for the societies like for example a joint EU proposal on a subject discussed in the groups.

We hope that you are as excited as us to define a new joint agenda on matters related to clinical skills training and medical simulation, and we hope that you will participate to share your ideas with us.

More info on the exact time and place will come very soon.

See you in Paris,

Italo Masiello, Ralf Krage and Marlies Schijven