Hospital for Sick Children- Procedural Skills Workshop (2026)

Course Overview and Instructions  

This class provides the learner with the knowledge and opportunity to learn and practice a framework for developing simulation-based procedural skills training workshops. 

This 4-hour interprofessional workshop covers the fundamentals for developing a simulation-based procedural skills training curriculum. The learner will gain knowledge of a framework to develop a procedural skills training workshop. A pre-reading package is required to be completed prior to attending class, to promote participation in discussions and learning activities.  Learners will have the opportunity to practice using the framework in small group activities during the workshop. 

Target audience 

A prerequisite for the workshop is that learners have some knowledge and previous experience with simulation based education (SBE).  

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of the workshop, the Learner should be able to:

• Describe Simulation-Based Education
• Describe the use of the “Learn, See, Practice, Prove, Do, Maintain Procedural Skills Training Framework” (Sawyer et al. 2015) in the development of a procedural skills training session​
• Identify an area where the procedural skills training framework can be applied in your healthcare setting​
• Apply the procedural training framework to a skill in your healthcare setting​
• Apply a curriculum template that is based on the ADDIE ​framework​

Pre-requisite Reading

1. Sawyer, T., White, M, Zaveri,P, Chang, T., Ades, A,, French, H., Anderson, J., Auerbach, M., Johnston, L., Kessler, D. (2015) Learn, see, practice, prove, do, maintain:  an evidence-based pedagogical framework for procedural skill training in medicine.  Academic Medicine.90(8), 1025-1033.
2. Pasquale Susan J.  Educational science meets simulation.  (2015). Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology.  29, 5-12.

Course Fee and Refund Information

Course fees are $249.00. 

Fees include all materials.

A full refund will be applied should a cancellation be received prior to 1 week in advance of the course start date.  Cancellations within a week of the start date will be subject to a 50% cancellation fee. 

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