The Center for Medical Simulation
Episodes
Are You Psychologically Safe? | Curious Now 34
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Are You Psychologically Safe? | Curious Now 34 What are the nature of the moments where our feelings of safety in a role evaporate, and we suddenly ...
Psych Safety: HVAC for Learning | Curious Now 33
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do we create psychological safety for our learners, especially when their day to day work begins to feel increasingly challenging and risky?: http...
That's Not What I Meant | Curious Now 32
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Curious Now we’re looking at how to repair after what you said or did lands the wrong way: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center...
Introducing: Coaching with Good Judgment | Curious Now 31
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing “Coaching with Good Judgment”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822 In simulation, we...
Navigating Fight/Flight/Freeze in ER Conversations (with Hayden Richards) | Curious Now #30
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hayden Richards, an Australian emergency physician and founder of the Youtube channel CommsLab, joins us to compare notes on confronting what’s goin...
How Shared Standards Can Bring Down the Heat (with Gabe Reedy) | Curious Now 29
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How Shared Standards Can Bring Down the Heat (with Gabe Reedy) | Curious Now 29 Gabriel Reedy, Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Simulation, joins us to...
Debriefing Teacher Judgments (with the Canberra Meta Debrief Club) | Curious Now 28
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you so much to our Australian hosts including Nathan Oliver and the Canberra Region Debriefing Club, a community of skilled, thoughtful teachers...
The Edge of Jenny's Practice | Curious Now #27
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Working from a challenge by Eve Purdy, this week Jenny is focusing on the edge of her expertise and the work she’s currently doing for herself, whic...
Why Are You Hiding Your Judgment? | Curious Now #26
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A very common dilemma—you can see something that you know can be done better, but you’re struggling with how to say that to the person doing it wi...
Pushback and Interruption as Learning Cues (with Walter Eppich) | Curious Now 25
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Walter Eppich to talk about how learning happens in conversations. Specifically, Walter discusses how he watched a surprisingly succ...
Agency is the Power to Act | CMS Book Club Live at #IMSH2026
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 #IM...
Change Comes From Curiosity and Caring | Curious Now Live at #IMSH2026
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Change Comes from Curiosity and Caring | Curious Now Live at #IMSH2026 Commenting on Kevin Brown’s “The Hero Effect” – How do we bring our pr...
Ready to Work Creatively Whether Our Organization Likes It Or Not | Dare to Be Ready Live at #IMSH2026
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Le...
Grand Rounds: The Advocacy-Inquiry Rubric (AIR), a Standard to Build Debriefing and Feedback Skills
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Center for Medical Simulation’s Grand Rounds presentation of the new publication in Advances in Simulation, “The Advocacy Inquiry R...
Making the Standard Explicit | Curious Now #24
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jenny and James discuss how organizations, not just individuals, can have hidden or implicit standards that are not spoken aloud. We look a...
Happy Holidays, and See You at IMSH 2026!
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're taking this week off, but we'll have a new podcast on January 2nd, and the CMS media team will be in San Antonio from January 11-14 for IMSH 202...
Debriefing Universal Clinical Struggles (with Bridget Van Gotten) | Curious Now #23
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Curious Now, we’re joined by an expert in the exploration phase of debriefing to help us better understand the “listen and explore”...
Why Real Questions Feel Risky in Debriefing | Curious Now #22
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Debriefings are often delayed and diminished by questions the asker already knows the answer to. “Wouldn’t it have been better to give epinephrine...
DTBR#3: Ready for Pediatric ECMO + ECPR
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Catherine Allan, Director of the Cardiac Care Unit and Inpatient Cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic joins us to talk about readiness for teams to ...
Awkward Silences and How to Prevent Them | CMS Book Club #16
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Just in time for the Thanksgiving Holiday— the CMS Book Club reviews “How to Avoid Awkward Silences” by Patrick King! “You set the tone for h...
Impact, Not Feelings | Curious Now #21
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it so hard for healthcare educators to share what they actually think in a debriefing or feedback situation? Jenny shares the story of a partic...
Making Leadership More Fair | Curious Now #20
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we lead a conversation where we only bring our conclusions and inferences to the table, rather than the concrete data that helped lead us there, ...
What They Aren't Saying | Curious Now #19
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Too often, meetings and announcements, especially around policy changes and new ways of working, are a list of topics that fail to address the fundame...
A Deep Dive into Psychologically Safe Conversations | Curious Now #18
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jenny and James explore recent conversations that didn’t go as well as they could have, because of different types of failures in the wor...
DTBR#2: Ready to Declare a Case Has Gone Wrong
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Balmer, an anesthesiologist and critical care doctor from Switzerland, joins us to look at the readiness of surgical teams in his organizati...
Debriefing Jenny's Performance | Curious Now #17
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, Jenny Rudolph and James Lipshaw, producer of Curious Now, debrief our performance so far with the podcast, what we had in our...
Amy Edmondson: Creating Psychological Safety | Curious Now #16 Special Event
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have an incredibly special guest this week on Curious Now! Amy Edmondson, Professor at Harvard Business School, and author of numerous books includ...
Curious Now Listeners #15: "There's a little sigh of relief."
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Laura Rock and Janice Palaganas return to crack the code of team culture, map the blueprint underneath what we’re thinking. In the final e...
Curious Now #15: Scaling Good Judgment to Your Team
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Curious Now we’re introducing a tool to help us bring the approach of understanding why people did what they did and helping them chang...
DTBR #1: Ready to Help "Safe" Patients with Diabetes in the ER
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dare to Be Ready with Dr. Chris Roussin, founder of CMS-ALPS, the Center for Medical Simulation’s team and organization readiness consulting service...
Curious Now Listeners #14: "The curiosity is not there and everyone can feel it."
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Rock, Janice Palaganas and Jenny explore where they are currently struggling in their practice of sharing their point of view clearly and then r...
Curious Now #14: Transforming Toxic Culture One Conversation at a Time
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re talking about transforming toxic culture, whether on your floor, in your unit, or in your department. How do we change unit culture via ...
Curious Now Listeners #13: "Culture is something we can change."
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Janice Palaganas and Laura Rock rejoin us to talk about their experiences of moving from mental rehearsal to actually asking the group, “What am I m...
Curious Now #13: How We Talk Shapes the Way We Work
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Curious Now, bring home the heart of this summer's work on internal resets, thought bystanding, communication, and teamwork. Our workout ...
New Podcast Coming Soon! Get Ready for "Dare to Be Ready"
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coming soon on the CMS Podcast channel-- The "Dare to Be Ready" podcast with Chris Roussin! Join us and a series of rotating guests as we examine read...
Curious Now Listeners #12: "You have to do a scene assessment."
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Curious Now Listeners, Jenny, Laura Rock, and Janice Palaganas each share a recent time that they’ve struggled to be transparent wi...
Curious Now #12: The Greatest Obstacle to Effective Learning Conversations
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In decades of faculty and clinician training at the Center for Medical Simulation, we’ve identified one element of our approach to Good Judgment lea...
Curious Now Listeners #11: "This respiratory therapist knows something I don't."
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Janice Palaganas and Laura Rock join us for our first Listeners episode of this new chapter! This week we are discussing how the mental rehearsal of a...
Curious Now #11: You May Be Right, You May Be Crazy
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for our third chapter of Curious Now, as we talk about words and mindsets that can transform toxic culture! Becoming skeptical of your own t...
Curious Now Listeners #10: "I could have asked for the frame."
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BJ So and Mel Barlow join us for the final time to discuss last week’s exercise of trying to come up with a frame to understand an action we saw tha...
Curious Now #10: Little Acts of Genius
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Little Acts of Genius: In this week’s Curious Now, we’re introducing the idea of ‘Frames, Actions, Results’, an action science framework that ...
Curious Now Listeners #9: "My Wife Finds It Mind-Boggling"
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mel Barlow and BJ So rejoin us to talk about the experience of testing using new listening styles at home and at work. Both noticed a similar trend of...
Curious Now #9: What Are We Listening For?
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Curious Now we’re looking at new research on listening styles and how they impact our teams and cultures in the world of healthcare. Wh...
Curious Now Listeners #8: "I really underestimated what it would be like for someone new."
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Curious Now, our two listeners examine the results they got using the Feedback Pre-Think Chart in preparation for a feedback conversa...
Curious Now #8: The Core Feedback Dilemma
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Curious Now we dig into the central dilemma in all feedback conversations--how do I criticize your performance without hurting your feeli...
Curious Now Listeners #7: How Could They Turn Down My Slam Dunk Proposal?
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Curious Now, B.J. So and Mel Barlow return to share their experience with last week’s exercise on the generous inference. Get coachin...
Curious Now #7: "I Wouldn't Run Them Over in the Parking Lot."
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Curious Now, Jenny explains how the “Generous Inference” was a complete game-changer for her career in debriefing and education, ...
Curious Now Listeners #6: "I set my learner up to fail..."
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our second chapter of Curious Now! We’re joined by a new set of simulation educators as they work through our weekly workouts together. F...
Getting Your Message Heard in a Sea of Content | CMS Book Club #15
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's CMS Book Club, Roxane Gardner, Executive Director of the Center for Medical Simulation, is joined by Jenny Rudolph, Grace Ng, and Jame...
Curious Now #6: Surviving Psychological Contract Breaches
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A nurse of Ned/Surg has been there for two years. She’s interested in moving into cardiac care—she’s always been interested in it—and as she s...
Curious Now Listeners #5: Why is My Patient So Angry with Me?
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Colleen Donovan shares a story from her time as a resident where an encounter with a consistently angry, unhelpful, and very sick patient turned into ...
Curious Now #5: WTF to WTF
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re in the same boat as so many of the clinicians we work with, you may be feeling that the puff is still out of your pillow post-pandemic. Un...
Curious Now Listeners #4: Our New Competency-Based Standards Didn't Land Well
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guests for Chapter One explain their struggle with understanding the standards of other people when implementing new practices for competency-base...
Curious Now Listeners #3: Listener Emotions
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Colleen Donovan and Laura Klenke-Borgmann rejoin Jenny to discuss the emotions that came up as they explored last week’s exercise. Join us to compar...
Curious Now #4: Other People's Standards
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when someone’s actions don’t meet our standard? Even in innocuous situations, with complete strangers, we can find that we have a fla...
Curious Now #3: Freight Train of Emotions
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing along the chain from hidden judgments and hidden standards, Jenny Rudolph explores the fundamental question beneath the heat of workplace c...
Curious Now Listeners #2: What Were Your Hidden Standards?
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following up on last week’s challenge to examine our complaints and judgments to reveal the hidden standards underlying them, Jenny continues our ch...
Negotiation in the Emergency Room | CMS Book Club #14
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Chris Voss' book "Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended on It", one major point made is that a high-stakes conversation ...
Curious Now #2: Hidden Standards Behind Your Judgment
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every "judgment" or "complaint" we have about others reveals a hidden standard that we hold about how people should behave, both in our general lives ...
Curious Now #1: Foundations of Good Judgment
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Grand Rounds | Readiness Planning: Go beyond “buy-in” to achieve front-line performance
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This CMS Grand Rounds video is a companion discussion to our newly published research article, "Readiness planning: how to go beyond “buy-in” to a...
Book Club Ep. 013: Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It (Leslie)
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this CMS Book Club, a Faculty/Fellows panel compares notes from two perspectives on education and information finding, based on their reading of "C...
Book Club Ep. 012: Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month, the CMS Book Club discusses "Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization." CMS works closely with healt...
The Future and History of Simulation in Morocco | Reflections on HTIC 2024 in Fès
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Mohammed Mouhaoui joins Lon Setnik and James Lipshaw from the Center for Medical Simulation to discuss the history of the HTIC simulation in...
Book Club Ep. 011: Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Amy Edmondson)
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join the reconvened Center for Medical Simulation Book Club as we discuss Amy Edmondson's excellent "Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well....
Brief Debriefings #014: New Perspectives on Teaching & Learning
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Brief Debriefing, past and current participants in the Center for Medical Simulation's Healthcare Simulation Essentials course (https:/...
Brief Debriefings #013: Onboarding Non-Clinical Teams into Simulation
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Not every simulation center has a readiness plan in place for onboarding new simulation staff, particularly those without clinical experience. At CMS,...
SimFails #016: Not So Co-Debriefing
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What to do when your debriefing gets dragged off-track by someone who was supposed to be on your side? Join us this week for more SimFails... and Othe...
Grand Rounds | Longitudinal Prebriefing for In-Situ Simulation
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This CMS Grand Rounds features Susan Eller, Komal Bajaj, and Jenny Rudolph, moderated by James Lipshaw. The speakers discuss the article "Leading chan...
SimFails #015: ESPs Gone Rogue
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Didn't preprogram the mannequin or fully brief your team? Now your patient's vitals are going haywire and the Embedded Simulation participants are in ...
Grand Rounds | Teaching, Coaching, or Debriefing with Good Judgment
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Center for Medical Simulation Grand Rounds: Teaching, Coaching, or Debriefing with Good Judgment: A Roadmap for Implementing With Good Judgment Across...
SimFails #014: "Please Hold for Technical Difficulties"
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Please Hold for Technical Difficulties": Accidental monitor arrhythmia, mannequin head on fire, powerpoint on the fritz... What do you do when a tech...
SimFails #013: Zoom Exhaustion
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Has anyone other than Janice Palaganas ever attempted to take two Zoom meetings simultaneously? Zoom Exhaustion and other crises in multitasking this ...
SimFails #012: No Content Expertise?
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you realize halfway through a debriefing when you realize you don't know enough about the topic you are trying to teach? Join Janice...
SimFails #011: Making Participants Cry
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SimFails returns to fail again! Janice Palaganas, Kirsty Freeman, and Sacha Muller-Botti discuss this week: what happens when your sim is too real for...
SimFails #010: Simulation Cheating
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SimFails returns to fail again! What do you do when participants try to cheat their way through the simulation experience?
Grand Rounds | Circle Up: Debriefing in the Clinical Environment
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Circle Up: Debriefing in the Clinical Environment," presented by Jenny Rudolph and Demian Szyld at Tower Health Grand Rounds.
SimFails #009: Healthcare Simulation Week 2021 Fails
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're back for Healthcare Simulation Week 2021 and with a spate of new episodes for the future! Join Janice Palaganas, Kirsty Freeman, and Sacha Mulle...
New Study Finds Significant Decrease in Malpractice Claims Among Participants in Simulation
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New from the Center for Medical Simulation: A new study in "Obstetrics + Gynecology" finds a significant reduction in malpractice claims against physi...
Debriefing In The Clinical Environment Before, During, and After COVID-19
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From IMSH 2021's Virtual Conference, featuring Demian Szyld, Stuart Rose, Jennifer Arnold, Esther Leon, Paul Mullan, Cristina Diaz-Navarro, Bram Welch...
Building Expertise: Exploring Novice Debriefers' Post-Simulation Debriefing Experiences
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Expertise of the debriefer is critical to ensure simulation participants achieve the best possible learning outcomes. Debriefers need a specific skill...
First Touch: Building Your Organizational Culture After the Pandemic (recorded 6/10/20)
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following this webinar, participants will be able to: Describe the role conversation plays in driving organizational culture Contrast front-l...
Getting Ready \ Staying Ready: Advanced Teamwork Moves During COVID-19
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We take it for granted that effective teams apply crisis resource management skills during emergency care, but how often do those teams also rehearse ...
Creating Dialogue Around Respect
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Building on the discussion in Building on the discussion in Broaching Race and Racism in Debriefing and Team Simulations (Part 1), CMS presents a conv...
Meet the Author: Jeff Cooper
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the Author is an opportunity to hear from leaders in the fields of healthcare simulation, patient safety and education about the process and outc...
What Efficient Mentorship Looks Like
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professionals are overcommitted both at home and at work. And feeling busy doesn’t help stress. When professionals try to take tasks off their plate...
4 Essential Decisions When Transitioning to Remote Learning
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Online learning doesn’t have to be a pale imitation of “real” in-person learning. It’s a whole new way of interacting with learners. What if i...
CMS Open Forum with Henrique Arantes, Mary Fey, Chris Roussin, & Demian Szyld
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) faculty are often asked to share their perspectives on a variety of topics. These informal discussions often take ...
Shared Leadership in Healthcare Emergency Teams: Should the Lighthouse Be Demolished?
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During this presentation, Dr. Sarah Janssens will expand on how she became interested in the topic of leadership and why she decided to focus specific...
Do Structured Handovers and Checklists Improve Patient Outcomes?
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hospital environments and clinical care has become complex. Managing interfaces across different aspects of the health system is critical, for example...
CMS Open Forum with Jenny Rudolph, Chris Roussin, & Demian Szyld
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) faculty are often asked to share their perspectives on a variety of topics. These informal discussions often take ...
Moving Your Simulation Program Online
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) faculty are often asked to share their perspectives on a variety of topics. These informal discussions often take ...
Design Thinking-Informed Simulation: Innovating to Evaluate + Modify Clinical Infrastructure
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Design thinking, a human-centered design method, represents a potent framework to support the planning, testing, and evaluation of new processes or pr...
Broaching Race and Racism in Debriefing and Team Simulations
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us in the simulation community have a lot to learn about making a difference regarding racism, how to integrate anti-racism, implicit bias, he...
Facilitating Experiential Learning Online
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As faculty have rapidly adopted online learning, many have found it challenging – the technology, managing the curriculum, and especially connecting...
The Reluctant Scholar
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scholarship is an important element of an academic career. Most health professions faculty are expected to produce scholarly work. But what exactly is...
Road Map to Relevance: SimZones Curriculum for Preparing People, Teams and Systems
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Simulation-based curriculum should fit into a clear learning progression and solve important developmental problems for the healthcare organization. T...
Be the Hero of Your C-Suite: Making Simulation Essential
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since the start of the modern simulation era, many in the healthcare simulation community have taken a “Field of Dreams” approach to our simulatio...
SimFails #008: Getting Emotional
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when your emotions get out of control during a debriefing? Do you need to limit them, or can they actually help us make good decisions ...
SimFails #007: Too Broad of a Take Home
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Goals like "I'm going to communicate better" are far too broad for effective learning outcomes. How can we make our takeaways more precise? What mis...