10 years Together: eSIM Provincial Simulation Program

10 years together has seen exponential growth in provincial eSIM (educate, simulate, innovate, motivate) program!

eSIM has visited over 90+ AHS and Covenant sites and has added 19 Simulation team members across our provincial team. A grassroots program has allowed us to train AHS educators, clinicians and physicians as simulation faculty (1185 in total) through our foundational learning course called WISE (Workshop in Simulation Education).

This model for provincial simulation service delivery was developed in January of 2009. The framework focused on integration, coordination, leveraging and building on existing simulation infrastructure and expertise. The provincial eSIM simulation program was designed to be inclusive for all learners and has created opportunities for collaboration across practice areas, units, sites, and zones.

Recently the eSIM program has been structured within the Process Improvement leadership team. eSIM continues to be one of the world’s largest single simulation programs under Alberta Health Services focused on team training, patient safety, improving the systems and processes in which we work, and have shown a consistent improvement in team effectiveness across all teams participating in simulation based education.