Recently I’ve read this book. It tells us how to build our competency as an instructor in various settings such as face-to-face, on-line and blended one.

Obviously every domain is applicable to our any kind of education. Especially I strongly agree with the first domain called “PROFESSIONAL FOUNDATIONS”

1. Communicate effectively

2. Update and improve one’s professional knowledge and skills

3. Comply with established ethical and legal standards

4. Establish and maintain professional credibility

Those are core, vital and fundamental abilities to be an effective instructor. Furthermore, an emotionally disciplined instructor will be able to have huge influence on learners.

Recently our simulation center(SIMSTAR) has bought four Q-CPR meters at the same time.

Real-time feedback of CPR quality with novel device seems to make learners much more motivated!

Today, I completed the 14th ECMO simulation and the 13th acute heart failure syndrome(AHFS) simulation of this year.

ECMO simulation: 9:00 am – 0:30 pm

AHFS simulation: 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm

A participant came from Sapporo and another one came from Hamamatsu, both are far from Sendai City.

In this year, the total number of participants of ECMO Sim is 118(mean 8.4) and those of AHFS Sim is 93(mean 7.1).

I really want all of those learners to show much much better performance with confidence than the past in the real clinical settings of both ECMO and AHFS practice.