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OxSTaR Faculty development for Simulation Delivery

Faculty development for Simulation Delivery

Join us for this novel course hosted by OxSTaR, for an introduction to the skills required to deliver simulation based healthcare education. The course is directed towards healthcare professionals with an interest in simulation but no previous experience is required.

Wednesday 26th November 2025

OxSTAR, John Radcliffe Hospital

0800-17:00

£200 (+VAT) per person (all catering provided)

5 places available

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Why this course: Are you looking at starting to build the skill set required to deliver simulation to healthcare professionals? This course will introduce you to the importance of debriefing, including giving you the opportunity to practice, and understanding of the roles required to deliver simulation. No experience is required but completion of the e-learning for health modules in simulation prior to the course is essential. This course is part of a wider programme that will also include mentorship opportunities post course.

Course Outline: Full day of Lectures and hands on workshops:

> Principles of simulation and roles required to deliver

> Why do we pre-brief?

> Practical debriefing

>Designing a simulation scenario

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The University of Oxford, OxSTaR Simulation Centre invite you to participate in a course which explores

Why Human Factors is so important in Healthcare today

 

External Virtual Human Factors Course

 

Wednesday 24th September 2025 – 09:00-13:00

Friday 6th February 2026- 09:00-13:00

Thursday 30th April 2026 – 09:00-13:00

Thursday 9th July 2026- 09;00-13:00

 

£150 (+VAT) per person

Via MS Teams

(PO number will be accepted for 5 staff or more)

3 CPD credits awarded

 

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Course description

 

This ½ day course is run by Professor Helen Higham (Director of OxSTaR & a Consultant Anaesthetist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford) and is suitable for clinical and non-clinical staff and aims to provide an introduction to the fundamentals of human factors in healthcare.

 

The course introduces participants to basic human factors frameworks, including the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS), and focuses on practical applications in the workplace to improve understanding of systems in healthcare.

 

This course  will align with the new National Patient Safety Syllabus

 

Learning Objectives

Improve understanding of human factors principles

Introduce and explore a human factors framework (SEIPS)

Provide opportunities to practise applying SEIPS to real world examples

 

Course content

Definition and background of human factors

Human factors applied to healthcare

Importance of work place culture (including Just Culture tool)

Explanation of SEIPS framework

Exercises using SEIPS

Plenty of opportunity for discussion and questions

 

Queries please contact [email protected]

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The University of Oxford, OxSTaR Simulation Centre

Introduction to SEIPS for PSIRF

Friday 21st November 2025 - 09:00-13:00

Via MS Teams

£200 (plus VAT) per person

3 CPD points

 

The systems engineering initiative for patient safety (SEIPS) is a framework to help us to analyse and understand work processes and outcomes within the complex adaptive environment of healthcare. SEIPS is one of the preferred human factors frameworks in the NHS and has been incorporated into the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).

 

SEIPS offers a number of tools to support safety incident investigations, and this interactive, introductory course will focus on using SEIPS to:

 

  • support learning and improvement following a safety incident in the immediate aftermath of an incident or for a more in-depth patient safety incident investigation
  • improve engagement and support for patients and their families after a safety incident
  • improve support for staff involved in safety incidents
  • understand system factors influencing the evolution of a safety incident
  • inform system design
  • design action plans

 

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