Creating a Psychologically Safe Space in
Clinical Simulation

Exploring novel approaches on how to improve the clinical skills of future physicians has been a career mission for Dr. Scotten since her introduction to medical education research in 2008. In her first career, as a registered nurse, she witnessed the impact of poor communication between health professions and patient safety. She has made it a lifelong mission to improve how medical students are trained to communicate and interact with both patients and other health care professionals.
As the director of the Pediatric clerkship at the University of Kansas she began seeking innovative methods to advance learning using technology, communication education and inter-professional collaboration. Her early research explored areas well ahead of their time- including the introduction the electronic health record(EHR) in interprofessional simulation and pediatric simulations involving four health professions, studying assessment of team communication and faculty debriefing education.
This introductory research led to her medical lead on the HRSA funded ICAP project; Interprofessional Collaborative Acute Care Practice. The ICAP project took a deeper dive into areas of team communication and use of interprofessional simulation and successfully changed many of the philosophies on how to train hospital teams, and students, in basic communication skills and more importantly apply those tenets to working models of change.

Lance W. Baily, BA, EMT-B is the Founder / CEO of HealthySimulation.com, the world’s leading medical simulation resource website which supports thousands healthcare simulation professionals a month. As an experienced entrepreneur, digital media producer and administrative professional, Lance has the background and the experience necessary to help guide the healthcare simulation industry to greater levels of adoption.

Lance Baily is also the Founder of SimGHOSTS.org, the leading 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to supporting healthcare professionals operating clinical simulation technologies which has organized a multitude of hands-on training conferences around the globe since 2011. His new co-edited Book: *Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Operations, Technology, and Innovative Practice provides 400 pages of in-depth articles supporting the technical integration of healthcare simulation in any sized program.^{*Affiliate link.}

Formerly he served as Director of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas, Simulation Technician for the LA Community College District, and volunteer Fire-Fighter, after receiving his BA in Film and Digital Media Production and working on Hollywood production sets. He currently lives with his wife in Las Vegas with their two young daughters and two crazy dachshunds.