Courses & Degree Requirements

Introduces foundational concepts in education, including adult learning theory and educational design. Topics include psychological safety, the role of emotion in learning and engagement, fundamentals of curriculum development, and modalities for evaluating teaching.

Provides background of the language and literature in the healthcare simulation science field. Focuses on the history of the field to build upon the past, assess progress and accelerate innovation and research. Introduces students to academic and commercial healthcare simulation innovation.

Students gain fundamental research skills, conduct literature searches, meet with members of their research team, and access online learning materials to support development as a researcher. Students learn to communicate research ideas and findings effectively through writing, presentations and discussions.

Students develop effective curricula within the dynamic realm of healthcare simulation. Grounded in principles of medical education and adult learning theory, students explore various simulation modalities, including computer-based simulations, standardized-patient simulations, clinical immersions, and procedural simulations.

Introduces the development process for complete healthcare simulation educational modules with special focus on the physical or virtual components that support the learning objectives. Delivers an understanding of the process that starts with high-level learning objectives, capturing and documenting detailed requirements that drive educational design, learner performance measures development and simulator development.

Introduces a proven, structured methodology in support of requirements captured at the beginning of a development project to drive the development of educational content and development of specific assessment instruments. Demonstrates how cognitive task analysis translates into product requirements and engineering specifications. 

Students gain fundamental research skills, conduct literature searches, meet with members of their research team, and access online learning materials to support development as a researcher. Students learn to communicate research ideas and findings effectively through writing, presentations and discussions.

This course will introduce the concept of educational assessment, and its importance for quantifying learner performance. Key concepts covered will include assessment instrument creation, and validation, reliability, behavioral and procedural assessment, technological methods of assessment, managing assessment within the curriculum, and formative vs. summative assessment. 

This course will focus on the applications of simulation in healthcare that ensure continuous quality improvement. Topics will include patient safety and error reduction, team-based training systems, high-reliability organizations (HROs), and clinical quality improvement. 

Students gain fundamental research skills, conduct literature searches, meet with members of their research team, and access online learning materials to support development as a researcher. Students learn to communicate research ideas and findings effectively through writing, presentations and discussions.

In this summer practicum, students will gain in-person experience working in a simulation center. During this experience, students will be expected to work with simulation center staff to devise a novel simulation curriculum that addresses a need related to quality, patient safety, or efficiency in healthcare. This curriculum must include elements of instruction and assessment, using evidence-based learning tools. 

Students gain fundamental research skills, conduct literature searches, meet with members of their research team, and access online learning materials to support development as a researcher. Students learn to communicate research ideas and findings effectively through writing, presentations and discussions.

Students will select two 3-credit electives from a list of available offerings. These may include topics in:

• Physiology modelling and simulation
• Available production and manufacturing methods
• Survey instrument development
• Multiple regression
• Test development/validity/G Theory
• Item response theory

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Students gain fundamental research skills, conduct literature searches, meet with members of their research team, and access online learning materials to support development as a researcher. Students learn to communicate research ideas and findings effectively through writing, presentations and discussions.

Students will select two 3-credit electives from a list of available offerings. These may include topics in:

• Physiology modelling and simulation
• Available production and manufacturing methods
• Survey instrument development
• Multiple regression
• Test development/validity/G Theory
• Item response theory

Students gain fundamental research skills, conduct literature searches, meet with members of their research team, and access online learning materials to support development as a researcher. Students learn to communicate research ideas and findings effectively through writing, presentations and discussions.