Advancing Healthcare Through Simulation
May 28, 2026 · 26 min · 12 segments
In this episode of Advancing Health Care Through Simulation, Lisa George is joined by Tom Waring and Bree Weyland from the NAIT Centre for Advanced Medical Simulation for a behind-the-scenes look at…
Lisa GeorgeHost
Bree WeylandGuestTom WaringGuest
How did you take the high level direction and actually bring it to life in the simulation environment?
So being part of the steering committee in the first place, as a simulation technologist, I was able to support and guide the steering committee towards something that was practical and achievable, and that had a huge impact on the final outcome of the simulation.
I was also able to answer some of those early stage questions and create those ideas, like one of them was some crazy ideas like having a secondary rural hospital or actually having ambulances be able to transport learners around the simulation.
And I can say that, you know, finding time to bring together all of these disciplines, either within NAIT or external, um, from the steering committee side of things, there's limited time, right? And it's such a large sale- scale simulation.
I know on the sim tech side of things, you need lots of time to develop and build those things as well, so I'm sure it was helpful from that standpoint.
Uh, but having that vision early on enabled us as the sim techs to kind of build tho- that ideas in the background and start fleshing out what that could actually look like before that full vision was created.
And we would come up with an idea and pitch it back to the steering committee or reach out to specific professions if we had an ideas that was specific to MRI, let's say.
We needed someone that was a subject matter expert in that field to have input on how that scenario fleshed out.
How did you take the high level direction and actually bring it to life in the simulation environment?
So being part of the steering committee in the first place, as a simulation technologist, I was able to support and guide the steering committee towards something that was practical and achievable, and that had a huge impact on the final outcome of the simulation.
I was also able to answer some of those early stage questions and create those ideas, like one of them was some crazy ideas like having a secondary rural hospital or actually having ambulances be able to transport learners around the simulation.
And I can say that, you know, finding time to bring together all of these disciplines, either within NAIT or external, um, from the steering committee side of things, there's limited time, right? And it's such a large sale- scale simulation.
I know on the sim tech side of things, you need lots of time to develop and build those things as well, so I'm sure it was helpful from that standpoint.
Uh, but having that vision early on enabled us as the sim techs to kind of build tho- that ideas in the background and start fleshing out what that could actually look like before that full vision was created.
And we would come up with an idea and pitch it back to the steering committee or reach out to specific professions if we had an ideas that was specific to MRI, let's say.
We needed someone that was a subject matter expert in that field to have input on how that scenario fleshed out.
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