Simulation in Medical Education (SiME) Seminar Series
DATE & TIME: November 16, 2009 @ 12 noon, Brown Bag Lunch
LOCATION: Goodman Simulation Center, Room H3552
SPEAKER: Kanav Kahol, Ph.D.
AFFILIATION: Arizona State University
TITLE: Teaching clinical skills and decision making in the digital age: Development of closed loop simulators for training and evaluation of clinical professionals.
DETAILS: As simulation emerges at the forefront of training clinical professionals psychomotor and cognitive skills for increasing patient safety and efficacy of healthcare systems, there is a need to expand the capabilities of simulators and simulation systems. A key requirement for such expansion lies in detailed requirement analysis and a clinician centered approach wherein the simulators are driven by the needs of the training program and clinicians. This in-situ design strategy requires capabilities to measure activities and training needs in the real environments (in both real time and offline mode) and then recreate and employ those in virtual environment for effective training. A simulator with such features would be a closed loop system that uses real world as an input to dynamically adapt the virtual world. This talk will present strategies for development of such simulator systems. It will cover initiatives in Dr Kahol’s human machine symbiosis laboratory (http://symbiosis.asu.edu) to develop closed loop systems for training clinicians. Some of these initiatives include design and development of cognitive surgical simulators, corrective simulators, warmup simulators, off-the-shelf gaming for surgical training, real worlds driven virtual world simulations for collaborative decision making and initiatives to include simulators in the curriculum of resident training. The talk will also present a framework to evaluate the effect of simulations on clinical practice and results of such evaluation of our simulators.
Dr. Kanav Kahol is an assistant professor in department of biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University. He completed his PhD in 2006 in Arizona State University in the department of computer science and engineering. He is affiliated with Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix as a research faculty in simulation education and training center (SimET Center). He is the manager of the Human Symbiosis Lab. Dr. Kanav Kahol's primary research interest lies in development of human-machine symbiotic entities especially in the clinical domain. Over the past few years, he has led an effort to develop simulators and training methodologies that are tailored to the needs of the clinical domain. He uses his background in movement analysis, activity analysis, applied cognitive psychology, virtual reality and multimodal information systems to develop novel simulators that can offer robust training. He has also developed a multitiered evaluation framework that enables studying the effect of simulation training on clinical practice. These efforts have led to several grants, publications and editorial activities; details of which can be found at http://www.public.asu.edu/~kkahol
