Debrief2Learn – A One Stop Resource for Everything Debriefing and Feedback

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Despite the central role of debriefing and feedback in healthcare and simulation-based education, educators often find it difficult to keep up to date on advances that would help improve their practice. Which methods work and in which settings? What empiric studies support debriefing in healthcare education? What do the experts think about newly published papers? Will new findings change their debriefing practice? What are future research directions in our field? Locating, accessing, and sifting through key resources has traditionally been challenging for many educators. Well, no longer…!

As passionate simulation educators and researchers, we know our peers in the simulation community crave easily accessible resources to support their debriefing practice and guidance in translating these principles to the clinical arena. Some educators strive to develop their colleagues’ debriefing skills, some look for tools to support peer feedback, while others may desire checklists to facilitate co-debriefing. Local education leaders need the most recent evidence on effective debriefing and feedback practices to prepare their own presentations. Researchers seek like-minded collaborators interested in advancing simulation and healthcare education science through debriefing research.

We have designed http://Debrief2Learn.org with both educators and researchers in mind. This website will eventually be a comprehensive, one-stop resource for everything related to debriefing and feedback in healthcare education—and it will all be free to access. Internationally recognized experts in the field comprise our advisory board, who will help shape the content, format, and future direction of this website. Our collaborators are well-published leaders and innovators in the field who also share their ideas and expertise through presentations and workshops presented around the world. To improve access to research, the research page lists relevant debriefing and feedback articles published by our team members. Each article can be accessed in a number ways: a link to PubMed, link to source journal, or a free PDF link (or a ResearchGate link to request a free PDF when this is not readily available). To assist with translating and using our research in your own setting, we offer resources and other helpful content, such as PDFs of our workshop slides and presentations. To help you follow our research, we offer links to each paper’s Altmetric page (which provides links to online discussion about the research), a link to articles that cite our research, relevant blogs to innovative ideas, as well as social media accounts (@debrief2learn on Twitter) to keep you updated on the latest work. Finally, podcasts will feature leading international experts discussing recent papers in our field.

We have developed Debrief2Learn for you! Let us know if you’d like to get involved. You can contribute content (eg. Blogpost), collaborate in research, or become a team member. We’d love to hear from you!

Adam Cheng

Adam Cheng

Director, Research and Development at the KidSIM-ASPIRE Simulation Research Program, University of Calgary
Adam Cheng is a Pediatric Emergency Doctor at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Canada. As a clinician scientist in the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Adam conducts research focusing on cardiac arrest, CPR quality and debriefing. He helped to co-found the Debrief2Learn website.
Adam Cheng
Walter Eppich

Walter Eppich

Director, Faculty Development at the Department of Medical Education, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Walter Eppich practices pediatric emergency medicine at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He teaches about simulation, faculty development, and debriefing around the world. A candidate for a PhD in Medical Education at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, Walter studies the role of talk as a medium of learning for individuals and teams. He is a co-founder of Debrief2Learn.
Walter Eppich
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Vince Grant

Vince Grant

Medical Director at the KidSIM Pediatric Simulation Program, University of Calgary
Vince Grant is a PEM physician at the Alberta Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Calgary. He has developed an international reputation in sim-based education and has taught extensively across North America and Europe. Vince's main academic interests include simulation program development, faculty development, debriefing methods, interprofessional education and distributed mobile simulation. He is one of the co-founders of Debrief2Learn.
Vince Grant
Brent Thoma

Brent Thoma

Director of Simulation and Program Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the University of Saskatchewan
Brent Thoma completed a fellowship in simulation at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is the Director of Simulation in the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine. He is a co-founder of Debrief2Learn and is responsible for building and maintaining its website.
Brent Thoma