Clinical Event Debriefing: Unifying Quality, Safety, and Workforce Well-Being (Simulation Academy-Sponsored)

Healthcare debriefings are reflective conversations following a simulated or clinical event and are a crucial way to link quality, safety, and wellness. Clinical debriefing programs have demonstrated benefit by promoting analysis of events for future practice improvement, probing systems to identify safety threats, and bolstering workforce wellness. There is no one right way to debrief and similarly, debriefing programs are not one size fi ts all. There are key components that should always be considered when initiating a debriefing program and these will be explored in this workshop. Case vignettes will be utilized to allows mall groups to consider and apply these key considerations across unique settings, making this workshop applicable to all participant types and levels. Time will be allotted to allow for discussion of anticipated challenges across work settings and brainstorming discussion around potential solutions. Participants will walk away with concrete next steps towards initiation or expansion of their clinical debriefing program.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
  • Define clinical event debriefing and its integrated role in quality, patient safety, and workforce wellness
  • Describe the importance of debriefing as integral link for quality, safety and workforce wellness and identify strategies to ensure inclusion of all objectives, including staff support and wellness
  • Address key components to starting a successful clinical debriefing program, including potential solutions to common challenges
  • Identify 2 concrete actions that can be applied within their local environment within the next 6 months

Presenters:

  • Suzanne (Suzi) Bentley, MD, MPH
  • Tiffany Moadel, MD
  • Amanda J. Deutsch, MD
  • Tina Chen, MD
  • Salil Phadnis, MD
Authors

  • Suzanne (Suzi) Bentley, MD, MPH

    Chief Wellness Officer

    NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst

    Suzanne (Suzi) Bentley, MD, MPH, is the Chief Wellness Officer, Director of Simulation Innovation & Research, and an Emergency Medicine physician at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst. She is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education at the Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai. Dr. Bentley completed the Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine residency, Masters of Public Health at Mount Sinai, and a fellowship in Simulation Education at the Institute for Medical Simulation and Advanced Learning of Health + Hospitals. Dr. Bentley stayed on as faculty at Elmhurst after training and served as residency Site Director before transitioning to Medical Director of Simulation and collaborating on opening the hospital-wide Simulation Center. She credits her passion for and expertise in debriefing as the unifier in her professional roles. She led the initiation of Helping Healers Heal at Elmhurst and became the first Health + Hospitals site Chief Wellness Officer in 2021. Dr. Bentley is a clinician, educator, and researcher with focused interests in debriefing, psychological safety, Insitu simulation, simulation for systems testing, teamwork maximization, patient and workforce safety, Safety II principles, and overall workforce well-being and advocacy. She advocates for workforce well-being improvements through focus on the integral connection between quality, patient safety, and workforce well-being.

  • Tiffany Moadel, MD

    Northwell Health, North Shore University Hospital

    Dr. Moadel is the Director for Simulation at North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health and serves as the Director of the Healthcare Simulation Fellowship within the Emergency Medicine Service Line at Northwell Health. She is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Prior her current roles, Dr. Moadel completed a Medical Simulation Fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine and continued for two years as the Director for Medical Student Simulation at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Center for Medical Simulation. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy’s Young Educator Award. She currently serves on the Simulation Academy Executive Board as Treasurer and serves as the lead for the Research Consultation Service as well as a liaison to the CORD Simulation Community of Practice on their joint Simulation Consult Service. Dr. Moadel's research interests include a grant-funded project utilizing simulation for microaggressions training, and utilizing simulation for novel applications in medical education.

  • Amanda J. Deutsch, MD

    Thomas Jefferson University

    Dr. Amanda J. Deutsch, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Well-Being for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Deutsch earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard University. She subsequently completed her post-baccalaureate and did quality improvement research at Boston Children’s Hospital before starting her career as a medical student at the University of Iowa, where she is from. She completed an Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed a track in Healthcare Leadership and Quality Improvement. She most recently completed a fellowship in Physician Wellness at Stanford Emergency Medicine. In her inaugural role as Director of Well-Being at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University she combines her interests in clinical operations, process improvements and well-being.

    Dr. Deutsch chairs the #StopTheStigmaEM subcommittee and hopes to normalize conversations around mental health for emergency medicine physicians, address barriers, and foster better mental health care for emergency medicine. Her interests include focusing on gratitude and appreciation to develop a sense of community and a team that can excel for their patients without the cost of their interests, self, and career. Dr. Deutsch loves to tweak process improvements to help foster well-being.

  • Tina Chen, MD

    Saint Louis University

    Tina Chen is the Associate Dean of Simulation and Clinical Skills for Saint Louis University School of Medicine, as well as the Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation for the Saint Louis University Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She completed Medical Simulation fellowship at the Center for Education, Simulation, and Innovation at Hartford Hospital.

  • Salil Phadnis, MD

    Indiana University

    Dr. Salil Phadnis is a Fellow in Medical Simulation at Indiana University. He earned his medical degree at University of South Florida and completed a Residency in Emergency Medicine at Florida Atlantic University. Following the completion of his fellowship in June, he will be joining as faculty at Washington University in St Louis.

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