Dear colleagues and friends,
The 9th Annual Congress of the Dutch Society for Simulation and Healthcare
will take place at the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG).
The UMCG was established in 2005 as a joint activity of the University of
Groningen and the Academic Hospital Groningen (AZG). At present, the UMCG
is one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands and the largest employer in
the Northern Netherlands. More than 10,000 employees provide patient care,
are involved in medical education and perform cutting-edge scientific research
focused on ‘healthy and active ageing’.
Groningen is not only renowned for its successful modernization of academic
education, but also its innovative approach to nursing studies, in-service training,
courses and training programs for (para) medics and nursing staff. This is
underlined by the presence of the hypermodern Wenckebach Skills Centre. This
mini-hospital has its own operating theatre, an Intensive Care Unit and patient
rooms. This allows caregivers with a variety of educational backgrounds and
from various disciplines to learn and practice the latest operating techniques
and treatment methods in a lifelike virtual environment. The Skill Centre facilitates
team training as well.
Together this makes the UMCG certainly a suitable host of the 9th annual DSSH
conference.
This year’s theme of the conference is “Building Foundations for Patient Safety”
New theories and scientific research about simulation-based education, serious
gaming and CRM training have been developed, evaluated and implemented in
training programs in the last decades. Now, the time has come to translate all
these efforts into sustainable improvement of patient safety- building widely
accessible foundations for the future.
Therefore, we would like to invite professionals involved in healthcare to
present their research and visions, to network and to become actively involved:
nurses, midwives, engineers, psychologists, designers, developers, physicians,
human factor managers, healthcare managers, insurances, government and the
industry.
The exhibition hall allows attendees to interact with developers, the industry,
experts in the field and friends. In the afternoon, a meet and greet has been
organized to ask questions to key opinion leaders about research, scientific
writing, simulation and serious gaming in daily practice.
The congress is in Dutch; however all presentations and workshops will be
supported by English slides but some international presenters may present in
English.
So, are you actively involved in building foundations for patient safety?
Do you evaluate the impact of fidelity of simulators or serious games on skills
acquisition and patient outcomes? What about issues such as team performances,
curriculum design, quality outcomes, costs and implementation of simulation
or serious gaming in daily training programs? Do you train, assess or debrief
using any type of simulation or serious games? Are you active in E-health?
Then, do not miss the DSSH congress in Groningen, March 15th 2017.
We hope to meet you soon in Groningen and increase our network!
Joya M. Smit & Esther Barsom, congress presidents
In cooperation with Albert-Jan Klein-Ikkink, UMCG
Isabelle Van Herzeele, MD, PhD, president DSSH