Healthcare simulation, read closely and tested in practice.
Simulcast treats healthcare simulation as both an educational craft and a systems tool. Recent episodes move from close readings of journal articles to practical conversations about debriefing, translational simulation, conference learning, and hospital design.
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Simulcast is a specialist healthcare simulation show with the habits of a careful journal club and the reach of a professional community noticeboard. It is not just about running scenarios. It is about what simulation can reveal, test, teach, and improve inside real clinical systems. Recent Journal Club episodes work through articles on generative AI in simulation debriefings, behavioral marker systems, holistic assessment training for older adults, and other education research. The format is deliberate. A study is named, its design is explained, and the conversation asks whether the result is actually useful for learners, facilitators, teams, or patients. That distinction matters. Simulcast often separates an interesting number from an educationally meaningful finding, or a promising framework from the harder question of whether it will survive daily practice. The show also makes room for special topic conversations. Episodes on human factors and translational simulation look at facility design, workflows, adverse event analysis, medical device design, and how simulation projects can expand once they meet the real system. Outreach simulation and STORC-related work bring in patient safety, quality of care, and system performance. Conference and event segments add another layer, with repeated attention to Simulation Reconnect Singapore, Woodlands Hospital, IMSH, S3, ASPE, workshops, masterclasses, and the social life of the simulation community. The pace is measured, and the tone is collegial. It assumes the listener can follow research vocabulary, but it also translates that vocabulary into recognisable settings: debriefs, curricula, trolleys, locked doors, peer critique, hospital openings, and fellows presenting their work. The show is at its best when it is mildly skeptical without becoming dismissive. It can appreciate a useful table, a thoughtful qualitative study, or an experienced group distilling practice into advice. It can also ask whether a scale is validated for the job, whether a randomized trial is the right tool, or whether a feedback system risks harming fragile professional identity. For simulation educators, clinicians, human factors practitioners, and healthcare education researchers, Simulcast offers a practical reading companion. It keeps papers connected to rooms where people learn and systems where care actually happens.
Made for: Designed for healthcare simulation educators, clinical educators, patient safety leads, human factors practitioners, and researchers who want applied discussion rather than surface-level article summaries.
What sets it apart: Simulcast stands out for joining journal-club rigor with concrete clinical-system examples. It keeps asking what a paper, framework, or event means for debriefing, workflow, facility design, peer feedback, and real implementation.
A podcast dedicated to the discussion of healthcare simulation. Debunking dogma, demystifying jargon and translating knowledge. Hosted by Victoria Brazil, Jesse Spurr & Ben Symon
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It turns healthcare simulation research into clear, questioning conversation about learning, feedback, human factors, and system design.
Simulcast treats healthcare simulation as a practical method for examining learning, teamwork, physical environments, and system design. Victoria Brazel and Ben Simon move between journal-club discussions and conversations with guests, keeping published research close to the…
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A careful journal-club look at whether generative AI helps debriefing or mainly makes the discussion feel polished.
Victoria Brazel and Ben Simon use the April Journal Club to ask a practical question: what can generative AI actually do in simulation debriefing, and what does the evidence show?
A practical journal club on behavioral marker systems, trust, and the hard edges of peer feedback.
March's Simulcast Journal Club keeps a tidy pace through its article rundown, but it comes into its own when Victoria Brazel and Ben Simon pause on behavioral marker systems and test what they actually change in practice.
A practical conversation about how human factors and translational simulation meet in real hospital work.
Victoria Brazel steers a disciplined conversation about human factors and translational simulation, anchored by a recent Journal of Healthcare Simulation paper by Paul O'Connor, Dara Byrne, and Angela O'Day.
Simulation is presented as a way to test and improve healthcare work, not just rehearse it.
This episode treats translational simulation as a design tool for healthcare systems, not merely a training exercise. Victoria Brazel, Ben Simon, Chris Hicks, and Andrew Petrosoniak discuss how simulation can be used to explore, improve, and test the physical spaces where…
A careful journal club that turns simulation research into practical questions about safety, feedback, and learning.
October's Journal Club for Simulcast reads like a working conversation rather than a polished roundup. Victoria Brazel and Ben Simon start with community news, then move through four articles that keep returning to the same practical question: what helps people learn safely in…
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Victoria Brazel and Ben Simon open the April Journal Club with a relaxed catch-up and a reminder about Simulation Reconnect in Woodlands Health, Singapore on July 16 and 17.
Victoria Brazel and Ben Simon return for the March edition of the Simulcast Journal Club.
This episode promotes the Simulation Reconnect symposium in Singapore, featuring an interview with organizer Daniel Seng to discuss registration details and the event's focus on using simulation for hospital processes.
This episode is a healthcare simulation journal club discussing recent papers and sharing news about upcoming conferences like Simulation Reconnect and IMSH.
Simulcast takes up human factors and translational simulation.
This episode is a journal club discussion reviewing a qualitative study on simulation training for holistic health needs assessments of older adults, published in Advances in Simulation.
Hosts discuss recent simulation conferences and preview upcoming events in healthcare simulation.
This episode discusses outreach simulation and measuring its impact on healthcare systems, featuring guests from pediatric simulation programs.
Host Victoria Brazel interviews Dr.
Hosts discuss recent papers on healthcare simulation, announce upcoming conferences, and thank journal contributors.
This episode discusses a new model for value-based simulation in healthcare, featuring authors of a recent article in Advances in Simulation.
Hosts discuss recent healthcare simulation research, including a journal club format and a winning paper on using psychotherapeutic concepts in simulation pre-briefs.
Hosts discuss upcoming simulation events and introduce a live conversation from the Australasian Sim Congress.
This episode features an interview with Nathan Oliver about his published article on using translational simulation to support hospital moves, discussing his background in healthcare simulation and medical education.
Victoria Brazel opens with Ben Simon and guests Chris Hicks and Andrew Petrosoniak.
Discussion of a New England Journal of Medicine article on a program to reduce birth-related mortality in Tanzania using simulation-based training.
This episode discusses the article 'More Than a Feeling: Emotional Regulation Strategies for Simulation-Based Education' with authors Vicki LeBlanc and Glenn Posner, exploring how emotions impact clinical learning in healthcare simulation.
Victoria Brazel and Ben Simon lead Simulcast's October journal club.
Hosts discuss recent articles on healthcare simulation, including a paper on Scotland's internal medicine simulation program.
This episode features an interview with Taryn Taylor about her research on the value of indirect communication in healthcare teams during medical errors and professionalism lapses, particularly when patients are present.
Hosts discuss upcoming simulation conferences and events, highlighting the value of translational simulation in healthcare.
Hosts recap the CSAM conference in Prague, discussing highlights and reflections for the healthcare simulation community.
The hosts discuss recent standards and research in healthcare simulation, previewing an upcoming conference in Prague.
Host Ben Simon discusses a new paper on translational simulation with authors Gabe Reedy and Vic Brazil, exploring how simulation can improve healthcare quality and safety.
Hosts discuss recent simulation work with MedStar Retrieval and announce upcoming events including a journal club workshop at CSAM and the Sim Reconnect conference.
Hosts discuss a journal article demystifying simulators for healthcare educators, covering technology selection and simulation modalities.
The hosts discuss upcoming simulation conferences and introduce a journal club segment reviewing recent literature on healthcare simulation.
This episode discusses recommendations for embedding simulation in health services, based on a literature review and action research.
The hosts discuss classic papers on teamwork to improve debriefing in healthcare simulation.
Hosts discuss recent journal articles on healthcare simulation, focusing on AI's role in writing simulation scenarios.
The hosts discuss a systematic review on the effect of simulated patient death on learner stress and knowledge retention.
This episode explores interprofessional education in healthcare simulation, focusing on its definition, benefits, practical implementation, and challenges, particularly in surgical contexts, through an interview with Dr.