Updates to the Lakeview ED Simulation

Event: Competitive Emergency Department Improvement Simulation
Purpose: to learn about:
1) Inter-professional collaboration
2) Change management
3) Lean improvement techniques
When: Saturday Nov. 7, starting around 10 or 11am... aiming to finish about 3 or 4pm
Where: Toronto General Hospital (details TDB) (near College St. & University Ave - very close to campus)
Cost: $10
Food: bring your own, or you can buy from Toronto General's extensive food court

Restrictions:
1) Apologies to our professional members, but only full-time students can participate
2) 1st and 2nd year medical students may NOT participate - this is because the simulation will soon become a graded component of your curriculum. This is unfortunate, but you will have the chance to participate soon enough.

Teams: You do NOT need to form teams (but you can show up with people you want to be on a team with). Just sign up now, and the teams will be formed the day of the event. Team size is TBD.

How to Sign-up: Email uoftihichapter@gmail.com with your name and program of study. There may be a maximum number of participants allowed, in which case we will use first-come, first-served - so email soon.

About the Event: A brief educational session on change management and lean principles will start off the day. This is facilitated by staff from the Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC) at Toronto General. Teams will be formed and introduced to the interface for the simulation, then the simulation will begin. In the simulation, you are the VP of a hospital with excessively long ED wait times and lots of bad press, and you are charged with "fixing" the ED. Change efforts aren't easy, however, and you must be tactful and strategic about what you do.
Depending on the teams, the simulation can last from 2-3 hours (a deadline may be imposed to keep us on schedule). Afterwards, everyone comes together for a debrief (again handled by CICC staff) and a scoreboard is shown of how all the teams did. This is a great time to discuss what we learned during the day.