Pocket Book for Simulation Debriefing in Healthcare (PDF)

After a MSc in neurosciences, Prof. Denis Oriot obtained his M.D. and board certification in paediatrics and anaesthesiology. He spent 2 years in Paris, specializing in paediatric intensive care. Then he flew over to Canada to spend a 2-year fellowship in Montreal Children's Hospital (McGill University) in 1989-1990, practicing clinical care (Paediatric intensive care), research, and teaching. That was his first discovery of simulation and debriefing. Back in France, he got nominated as Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Poitiers (France). Besides clinical care, Denis studied moral philosophy (Sorbonne, Paris) and obtained a Ph.D. in bioethics (University René Descartes, Paris). He has a large clinical experience with more than 20 years of practice in Paediatric Intensive Care and Paediatric Emergency Medicine. As one of the French pioneers in simulation, he developed training programmes in the early 1990's. Denis is at the head of a French nationwide simulation-based education programme through a university course on paediatric emergency procedures. He has taught simulation-based education in several overseas facilities during the last two decades. He is currently the scientific referee of the Simulation Centre in Poitiers, France. Denis also has been attending as a trainee various simulation education courses in the US about simulation and debriefing during the last 10 years. Denis has also developed several research projects in simulation about performance and stress, multi-professional teamwork and performance, disclosure of bad news, mastery trainings on specific paediatric and adult emergency procedures, and different types of debriefing approaches. He has a particular interest in assessment of procedures and global evaluation of emergency teamwork performance.

Prof. Guillaume Alinier started his academic career in 2000 at the University of Hertfordshire's (UH) School of Electronic, Communication, and Electrical Engineering as a researcher on a

 “The tables and figures are well constructed and help to summarize the text effectively. … Any health professional educators engaged in the use of simulation, whether it is as simple as role play or as complex as high‐fidelity multiprofessional team simulation, will find this a useful guide to the process of debrief. The authors include a thorough review of the literature, explain it clearly in the text, and summarize it in a number of helpful tables and figures.” (Patricia A. Thomas, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2018)