The regular visitors to the site will have noticed an extra tab at the top of the page.

The Welsh Paediatric Simulation Group (WPSG) provides paediatric simulation training throughout Wales covering a wide range of topics. Because WREN is linked to WPSG through education provision we thought it would be beneficial to have a one stop shop for access to educational opportunities so nobody misses out. The aim is that we will publish the dates of courses and contact details to book them on the WREN website as well as providing access to all the precourse reading materials.

It’s a work in progress so please bear with us while we update this over the coming months.

Also let us know what would be most useful to see on these pages and we can edit them to make they are adding value and making things a little bit easier.
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Welcome to the WREN pages WPSG 

Course PRUDIC Study Day
Date 2nd March 2018
Venue Bridgend
             Princess of Wales Hospital (Paediatrics)
Contact
Dr Dana Beasley
Consultant Paediatrician
[email protected]

Course Paediatric Trauma Course
Date 18th May 2018
Venue Cardiff
             University Hospital of Wales
Contact
Dr Hannah Murch via Liz Williams
[email protected]

Course Step up to Registrar/Shift Leader
Date 21st May 2018
Venue Cardiff
             University Hospital of Wales
Contact
Dr Sally Richards
Associate Specialist
[email protected]

Course Safeguarding
Date June 2018
Venue Bridgend
             Princess of Wales Hospital (Paediatrics)
Contact
Dr. Emily Payne
Community GRID trainee
[email protected]

Course Paediatrics 2
Date 2nd July 2018
Venue Cardiff
             University Hospital of Wales
Contact
Dr Sally Richards
Associate Specialist
[email protected]

Course Step up to Registrar/Shift Leader
Date 10th September 2018
Venue Cardiff
             University Hospital of Wales
Contact
Dr Sally Richards
Associate Specialist
[email protected]

Course Paediatrics 1
Date 31st October 2018
Venue Merthyr Tydfil
             Prince Charles Hospital
​Contact
Dr David Deekollu
Consultant Paediatrician
[email protected]

As more course dates become available we will update the WPSG page of the WREN website

​Association for Simulated Practise in Healthcare (ASPiH), 6th – 8th November 2017, Telford International Centre

By Rebecca Broomfield

As a part of my Clinical Leadership Fellow year I am focusing on the evaluation of simulation as a teaching technique, attempting to relate this to improved patient safety and improved patient outcomes. Anybody who knows me knows that I love a simulated scenario as a teaching session, it’s not everybody’s cup of tea but it really fantastic opportunity to learn. I therefore jumped at the chance to attend the ASPiH conference.

​I started by attending a pre-conference workshop session based on Evaluation of Simulation. I was actually unaware that pre-conference workshops happened. A lot of big conferences have a day prior to the main event which they run focus groups or workshops that people can attend to be taught and explore ideas with like minded others. My workshop covered a lot of educational theory behind simulation and how you can use this to evaluate your simulation sessions. Key learning points included the fact that a poor evaluation undermines the development of new approaches. The evaluation itself is “a systematic acquisition and assessment of info to provide useful feedback about some [object]”, therefore while evaluation of the session is often an afterthought and a quick Likert score which nobody reads or bothers to fill in correctly, it really should be an important part of the structure of the simulation session. We also discussed how to structure your evaluation and a way to form a measurable outcome.