Week 6 Post 2

Now that Assignment 3 part 1 is complete, I decided to research some new topics in HPT that are related to my everyday work in health care and in my specialty research area of medical simulation technologies.

The first page I found was a contest for ISPI members to share their success stories of HPT application to the health care environment. Since only members were eligible to submit, I decided to go to the ispi site and see what there was specifically related to health care but could not find anything. I then refined my search to include both simulation and human performance improvement.

The article reviewed was a research project designed to validate the use of human simulator technology on the performance of a trauma response team. As with previous articles on medical simulation that I have reviewed, this research demonstrated a positive effect of the training on the team's performance. Not only did the team perform better after the training, the effect of the training was reproducible across ten teams. In the health care world, the use of high fidelity patient simulators is spreading like wildfire for obvious reasons. However, the validation research and the instructional design methods are not reaching all facilities that purchase the simulator technology. For me, this is such an interesting and exciting combination of my health care experience and my instuctional design/performance improvement training. As I continue with this course, I am finding more and more applications of HPT in my area of specialization.


http://www.multiview.com/briefs/ispi/ispicontest.pdf
http://hfrp.umm.edu/lsc/trauma/Holcomb%20simulation%20J%20Trauma%202002.pdf