What’s Happening

We are continuing to deliver diversity sensitive simulation at the University of Bradford by means of using videoed and structured teaching materials.  This pedagogy is being used by others and...

Melissa Owens, from the University of Bradford, and Sharon Walker, from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, have been successful in having an abstract accepted to present at a conference in...

Undergraduate nursing students participated in a simulation with the focus being for them to experience a degree of sensory deprivation and physical debilitation that might be associated with having a...

UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery’s first virtual conference on Diversity and Simulation has attracted 300 delegates from across the world. Sim-Versity is an international collaboration of health professionals, experts...

Sim-Versity annual conference goes online Wednesday 24th June 2020 Enhancing cultural competence through simulation based education is the first ever virtual conference addressing the importance of and the relationship between...

Since becoming involved in this project the cork team has become more aware of the need to develop more diverse resources both in regards to the simulations developed and the...

Students from Savonia University of Applied Sciences Rosa-Maria Haapapuro and Jonna Liimatainen (both paramedic students)  The aim of the simulation developed in this thesis is to increase the knowledge of...

Dr Gabrielle McClelland and Harvinder Panesar from the Faculty of Health Studies were selected to present a workshop entitled 'Integrating diversity into simulation-based Education with Health Professionals' in partnership with...

There were in total four focus group / Sim-Versity cafes with the Cork partners held in June and December 2018. These focus groups consisted of: on the first day, discussions…

In this issue: Sim-Versity café learning events for teachers, students, standardized patients and health care professionals, spring 2018. Sim-Versity web-hub development. Development and evaluation of simulation education diversity assessment tool...

Dr Gabrielle Tracy McClelland and Amanda Briggs from the School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, Faculty of Health Studies University of Bradford, UK were selected to present a workshop entitled…

November 2019 An over view of the Sim-Versity project was presented at the 18th Annual Nursing and Midwifery conference in University College Cork, Ireland. This year the theme of the...

Increasing knowledge of cultural competence and patient safety using simulation pedagogy Pro Terveys Journal (4) 2018, 10–11, Finland. Marja Silén-Lipponen Principal Lecturer, PhD, Savonia University of Applied Sciences marja.silen-lipponen@savonia.fi Riitta...

In the Sim-Versity project also students are recruited to carry out part of their studies in the project or as commentators or contributors to the project outputs.Here is a summary of…

Sim-versity project was successfully elected one of the projects, which got the funding from British Council in 2017. Very eagerly we started the preparations for the project locally in Finland...

Transnational Cooperation Activity: Dissemination, Sustainability and Impact in Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships (KA2); Bonn, Germany, 16th-17th May 2018. Purpose of the event This Transnational Cooperation Activity which took place in Bonn,...

Introduction to our project-Simulation- based education and diversity for health professionals. Why cultural competence is important in health care and how we aim to address this.  Meet the project team....