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Good evening Fellow Simops! My team had a question about running multiple sims in one large room and what your facility might do to help with clarifying audio. For example, we have four mics above each patient bed, but we still pick up groups adjacent to us. Do you guys have any tips or tricks to help focus the audio into one area? Granted, our mics are over five years old. What kinds does your facility use? Thank you!

The author Malcolm Gladwell spends a chapter discussing the so-called "10,000 Hour Rule" in his book "Outliers." The Rule states that it takes about 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become an expert in a task. The Rule is considered to be controversial. However, from personal experience, I find that there may be some merit to the Rule when it applies to Healthcare. I completed my Residency in July 2003 and immediately began working at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center the following month. When I started as a new Attending Physician, it was a bit of a shock. I had the necessary skills to take care of patients, but not to function as an employee with ...

My department ran interviews for our residency program over the past several months, and I helped out. I was assigned candidates to speak with, and no list of questions to ask. I decided to encourage each candidate to tell me an interesting story as a way to distinguish between them. Most candidates were not able to give me a story at all and merely listed past experiences in a matter-of-fact tone. Other candidates were slightly more lively in recalling past life events but still seemed out of touch. However, I remember one candidate in particular who was able to draw from some significant past life experiences and share them with me in a way that almost left ...