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Center for Medical Simulation (CMS)
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Improving teamwork, communication, & leadership through research-driven training. Helping clinicians around the world become better instructors & debriefers.
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Debriefings are often delayed and diminished by questions the asker already knows the answer to. “Wouldn’t it have been better to give epinephrine faster?”

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December 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Dr. Catherine Allan joins us to talk about readiness for teams to perform pediatric ECMO, a high-risk, high-complexity therapy that staff might only see a third as often as they see patients on ventilators.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today, on #GivingTuesday, I want to share something simple but urgent: the people who care for us need care themselves, and CMS needs your help to deliver it.

𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: www.harvardmedsim.org/make-donation

-Roxane Gardner, 𝗠𝗗
December 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Just in time for Thanksgiving— the CMS Book Club reviews “How to Avoid Awkward Silences” by Patrick King!

Join us as eight learning conversation experts debate the value of silence, and how we can get the conversation back to flowing.

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November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Why is it so hard for healthcare educators to share what they actually think in a debriefing or feedback situation? Jenny shares the story of a participant in an anesthesia clinical simulation who helped guide her to be more transparent...

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November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
When we lead a conversation where we only bring our conclusions and inferences to the table, rather than the concrete data that helped lead us there, we are influencing (sometimes unjustly) what is even discussable among our teams.

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November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Curious Now Workout of the Week: Use the subject line of your emails to practice more clearly telling what the purpose of the conversation is.

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November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Curious Now workout of the week: Observe for conversations where you feel unclear—what was the point of this meeting, why are we having this conversation, what are our goals of care for this patient?

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October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Christian Balmer joins us from Switzerland to look at the readiness of surgical teams to recognize and deal with cases that have gone beyond their capacity to handle!

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October 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In this special episode, Jenny Rudolph and James Lipshaw, producer of Curious Now, debrief our performance so far with the podcast, what we haven’t achieved yet, and where we’d like to go next.

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October 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Dr. Amy Edmondson, author of 'Teaming', 'The Fearless Organization', and 'Right Kind of Wrong', joins us to discuss the origin of psychological safety and how leaders can create organizations that learn!

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October 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This week on Curious Now, Laura Rock and Janice Palaganas return to crack the code of team culture, map the blueprint underneath what we’re thinking in this chapter's final episode.

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October 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This week on Curious Now we’re introducing a tool to help us bring the approach of understanding why people did what they did, called the FAR or Frames, Actions, Results tool.

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September 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
How do healthcare teams around the world use simulation to get ready for everyday challenges? Join Chris Roussin and CMS-ALPS as we explore on "Dare to Be Ready" #hcsimweek25

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September 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Dare to Be Ready with Dr. Chris Roussin, founder of CMS-ALPS, the Center for Medical Simulation’s team and organization readiness consulting service!

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September 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Laura Rock, Janice Palaganas and Jenny explore where they are currently struggling in their practice of sharing their point of view clearly and then really inviting the other person’s perspective.

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September 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM