Overview
This full-day faculty development workshop is designed for emergency clinicians who want to move beyond simply running scenarios and develop a more intentional, effective, and sustainable approach to simulation facilitation. Delivered by faculty from Starship Children’s Hospital ED and Perth Children’s Hospital Simulation Team, the day focuses on strengthening how simulation is framed, facilitated, and embedded within emergency departments to maximise engagement, learning, and practical relevance to real clinical work.
Participants will explore how to reframe the purpose of simulation beyond education alone, choose the right simulation modalities for different objectives, build sustainable interdepartmental simulation programmes, scaffold psychological safety, navigate difficult debriefs, and begin linking simulation activity to meaningful improvement efforts in their own departments. The programme combines short plenary sessions, highly practical workshops, small group design sprints, and honest faculty reflections from the trenches.
Faculty
Dr Khang Hee Gan, FRACP, – Lead Facilitator
Paediatric Emergency Specialist, Children’s Emergency Department and Senior Medical Officer, Simulation Team, Starship Children’s Hospital
Dr Thomas Volkman, FRACP
Consultant Paediatrician, Perth’s Children Hospital, Department of General Paediatrics (Green Team Lead), Department of Refugee and Global Health, Postgraduate Medical Education (Co-director Simulation team), Rural Paediatric Service (Ngaanyatjarra lands), University of Western Australia (Paediatrics Division)- Senior Lecturer
Dr Kiranjeet Singh, FACEM, PEM
Paediatric Emergency Medicine Specialist, Children’s Emergency Department, Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland, NZ
Katherine Wilson, FRACP, PEM
Perth’s Children Hospital
Erin Carn-Bennett, RN, MN
Senior Paediatric ED Nurse and Educator, Starship Children’s Hospital
David Barrett RN
Simulation coordinator Perth Children’s Hospital Simulation
Who Should Attend
Emergency clinicians who are already facilitating simulation regularly and want to take their programmes to the next level.