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Web-Based Interprofessional (IPE) Case and Debrief
Join EMS and Dr. Stephen Duffull, Associate Dean, Research and Post Graduate, School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, in collaboration with the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, for this live interprofessional (IPE) virtual training event. Attendees will have the opportunity to observe a web-based case (real time) exercise and attend a debriefing by Dr. Duffull. The case will run live, with a live broadcast of the debriefing.
Dr. Stephen Duffull Associate Dean, Research and Post Graduate, School of Pharmacy
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SimPHARM – Finalist in Games for Learning/Simulation Solution Category
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SimPHARM – Finalist in Games for Learning/Simulation Solution Category
Strengthening Therapeutic Decision Making for Learners in Real-Time
Strengthening Therapeutic Decision Making for Learners in Real-Time
Real-Time Decision Making for Healthcare Students and Interprofessional Teams
Real-Time Decision Making for Healthcare Students and Interprofessional Teams
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SimPHARM is a web-based, virtual patient care training platform that creates a realistic clinical experience for students and interprofessional teams participating within a cross-functional medical training center or across multiple remote learning locations. It is built on mathematical models of the physiology of body systems that simulate real life reactions to diseases and drugs. This allows students to sense and feel the consequences of their therapeutic decisions. Because SimPHARM operates on a dynamic learning algorithm, every learner and team who run the case will experience it differently. SimPHARM is an ideal training solution for undergraduate and graduate education programs.
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Cutting-Edge Case Based Learning for the Modern Student
Experience Training Scenarios in Real-Time
SimPHARM utilizes a dynamic Case Based Learning (CBL) model. The faculty/instructor creates a case in which a patient presents with certain medical problems. The student, or interprofessional training team, begins the case by developing a care plan, initiating treatment, and observing the effects of the drugs being administered in real-time. Students can then make self-reflective notes, document justification for treatment, discuss the material with the faculty/instructor or other students, and complete the case with a final reflection. Ideal for flipped classroom learning environments, the SimPHARM real-time cognitive game engine empowers students to develop their clinical decision making skills at their own pace while under the supervision of faculty.
Case Dynamically Changes Based on Therapeutic Decisions
SimPHARM is a clinical pharmacology simulation tool that creates a realistic clinical experience. It is built on mathematical models of the physiological body systems that simulates real life reactions to diseases and drugs, allowing students to sense and feel the consequences of their decisions. And because SimPHARM operates on a dynamic learning algorithm, every student or interprofessional training team who runs the case will experience it differently.
Puts Students in the Driver's Seat
As the flipped classroom model becomes more widely adopted, institutions are seeking out ways to give students and interprofessional training teams access to educational content independently while under the guidance of a faculty member. SimPHARM empowers students to read, review, and learn material before entering the classroom. An instructor can simply and easily assign a SimPHARM case prior to class, allowing students to work at their own pace. Students can choose appropriate drugs and dosing regimens, order lab tests, and interact with interprofessional or medical teams while experiencing the consequences of their decisions and reflecting on case progress in real-time. Students can also debrief on their experiences and compare decisions with classroom peers.
Experience Consequences of Decisions
What happened? Why did it happen? How would a different decision affect the outcome? Reflection and feedback are the heart and soul of the clinical pharmacology simulation experience. SimPHARM allows students and interprofessional training teams to complete cases on their own time and experience the consequences of their decisions, enhancing learning through reflection. A real-time cognitive game where one minute of virtual time equals one minute of real time, SimPHARM helps students make decisions, think, and respond as they would in an actual clinical environment.
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Key Features
Interprofessional Education
SimPHARM interprofessional team training features replicate different disciplines working together on a common case/scenario or case series.
Case Building & Repository
The SimPHARM case building platform allows cases to be built quickly (in as little as 15 - 30 minutes) using a modular format. Prebuilt cases with various pathologies at different levels of learning are also available.
Dynamic Learning Experience
Give your students a unique, immersive cognitive gaming experience with SimPHARM highly realistic virtual simulation.
Collaborative Video Conferencing
Enable instructors and students to discuss case details during treatment and debrief afterwards with integrated video conferencing.
Wide-Range of Treatment Options
SimPHARM contains over 700 therapeutic formulations that can be prescribed, over 100 lab tests and symptoms that can be monitored, and 92 pathologies that can be selected in order to create a unique learning experience.
Spectrum of Pathologies
Leverage 90+ pathologies across multiple systems (from a bee sting to heart failure) with realistic time sensitive changes in lab values and symptoms.
Scalability
SimPHARM was developed with flexibility in mind. Scale your training program beyond the classroom with virtual simulation training that can be accessed anywhere, anytime.
Security
Maintain security and compliance with SimPHARM cloud-based clinical pharmacology modeling and clinical simulation platform.
How SimPHARM Works
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Dashboard and Instructor Account Overview
Virtual Cases Overview and Case Creation Module
Viewing and Assigning Cases as an Instructor
Running Virtual Cases with Students
Assigning Cases to Students and Teams
SimPHARM Powerful Pharmacometric Engine
SimPHARM engine is built leveraging the most up-to-date drug lists, categories, formulations, side-effects, and interactions, and acts in accordance with pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles. The following resources are utilized in combination to construct a highly realistic, physiologically accurate experience within SimPHARM:
SimPHARM in Support of ACPE Accreditation Standards
SimPHARM acknowledges that professional degree programs in pharmacy are bound to national accreditation standards and provides a virtual clinical decision training platform to support PharmD program needs around specific qualifying criteria. This aids in helping stay in line with current ACPE Standards. Institutions are able to leverage SimPHARM in concordance with program goals to satisfy regulatory expectations in specified areas of evaluation. SimPHARM can, both directly and indirectly, contribute to institutional accreditation practices and speaks to relevant curriculum topics, including Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Patient Assessment, and Pharmacotherapeutics.
Qualifying Accreditation Standards
Qualifying standards assert that institutional curricula must emphasize active learning pedagogy, content integration, knowledge acquisition, skill development, and applying knowledge and skills to therapeutic decision-making. SimPHARM realistic case-based training scenarios provide students with the ability to acquire the ideal breadth of requisite knowledge and skills. It also facilitates the maturation of professional attitudes and behaviors that accrediting standards deem essential.
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5 Ways Real-Time Computer Simulation Helps Pharmacy Students Become More Confident Practitioners
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About
About
Education Management Solutions (EMS) and Professor Stephen Duffull of the University of Otago School of Pharmacy have teamed up to develop the SimPHARM clinical pharmacology simulation solution. SimPHARM gives healthcare training institutions the framework to help learners more effectively bridge the gap between classroom learning and patient care.
Education Management Solutions, LLC (EMS)
Education Management Solutions (EMS), a Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE), has been an industry pioneer in video and content management solutions for healthcare training environments for over 25 years. Working alongside subject matter experts, we serve as the driving force behind numerous consumer-centered innovations that continue to move the training and education market forward with breakthrough technologies. Our innovations range from clinical simulation management software and hardware to counselor education and virtual interactive computer-based training tools for interprofessional and pharmacological education.
Professor Stephen Duffull, University of Otago School of Pharmacy
Stephen Duffull has been registered as a pharmacist since 1986, and has practiced in hospital and community pharmacy settings, and worked and trained in the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at Christchurch Hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand for 10 years. During this time he completed his Masters and PhD degrees. His PhD involved the design and analysis of clinical pharmacokinetic studies. In 2006, he was offered a position as a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Otago, where he served as Dean of Pharmacy from 2010 to 2016, and currently holds the title of Associate Dean, Research and Postgraduate. Professor Duffull has contributed over 200 publications in the area of modeling and pharmacometrics, which helped build a knowledge base that fueled the development of the SimPHARM clinical pharmacology simulation software.
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FAQs
Yes. SimPHARM comes pre-loaded with a repository of medical cases you can use with your students right out of the box. Additionally, faculty members and instructors are able to quickly and simply create cases of their own by leveraging existing case structures.
There are over 400 drugs that can be prescribed, over 100 lab tests and symptoms that can be monitored, and up to 92 pathologies that can be selected within SimPHARM.
SimPHARM is a valuable tool for both undergraduate and graduate learning levels.
SimPHARM is subscription-based software with tiered pricing based on the amount of users that will be accessing the system.
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