ED Improvement Simulation

Event: Competitive Emergency Department Improvement Simulation
Purpose: to learn about:
1) Inter-professional collaboration
2) Change management
3) Lean improvement techniques
When: Saturday Jan. 23, 10am-4pm
Where: Toronto General Hospital
Cost: $20
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 will be placed on a team; teams are created to be balanced based on the professions and experience.

How to Sign-up: Go here.

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.