Medical Professional Learning and Development
To insure quality of our training programs, one of the core principles of the Simulator Program is that all facilitators are trained in the Art and Science of Simulation and Debriefing.
Learning & Development
Continuing Medical Education
Our Instructors Courses as well as our Crisis Resource Management Courses do give CME courses through Harvard Medical School's Department of Continuing Education. Below are instructions on how to get them.
A. The BCHSP 3-Day Instructor Workshop: Innovation in Pediatric Simulation offers AMA Category 1 CME credits through the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Continuing Education. For more information please contact Laura Soares.
B. All BCHSP team training courses offer AMA Category 1 CME credits. Once credit is awarded per each hour of instructor. Please see below for information on requesting your CME transcript and converting CME credits to CEU credits.
How to request a CME certificate or transcript:
- All requests should be sent to ceinhospital@hms.harvard.edu with the following information included:
- requestor’s name*
- name of the series attended: RSS 2685 “Crisis Resource Management in Pediatrics”
- hospital the conference is associated with: Boston Children’s Hospital
- series course director: Peter Weinstock, MD PhD
*Certificates/transcripts will be sent out upon request only
*Certificates/transcripts will be sent out after the academic year has ended It will take five to seven business days to receive a copy of your CME transcript for RSS activities after we have received the request email. Please note, certificates/transcripts will be e-mailed as PDF documents based on the email provided on the original request email or the attendance sheet from your office.
Converting Continuing Medical Education Credits to Continuing Education Units
To convert CME credits to CEU credits please visit the State of Massachusett's Health and Human Service's site for more information.
The BCHSP offers various educational opportunities for clinicians and students to expand their knowledge in the medical simulation field.
Jeffrey B. Cooper, Ph.D. is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Medical Simulation, which is dedicated to the use of simulation in healthcare as a means to improve the process of education and training and to avoid risk to patients. He is also Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cooper was a lead member of the group that created the first safety-related standards for anesthesia, equivalent versions of which have since been adopted in the US and throughout the world. He is considered to be a pinoneer in the world of medical simulation.
Dr. David M. Gaba is Associate Dean for Immersive and Simulation-based Learning and Director of the Center for Immersive and Simulation based Learning (CISL) at Stanford University School of Medicine. Over the last 20 years Dr. Gaba's laboratory has worked extensively on human performance and patient safety issues. This laboratory is a pioneer in applying organizational safety theory to health care. The laboratory is also the inventor of the modern full-body patient simulator and is responsible for introducing Crew Resource Management training from aviation to healthcare, first in anesthesia and then to many other healthcare domains.
