Faculty Resources Hub
Welcome to the Faculty Resource Hub — a curated collection of theoretical frameworks, standards, templates, and ready-to-use materials to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of interprofessional education (IPE) and simulation (SIM) learning experiences.
Resources are organized by topic and require university login to access each link via SharePoint.
- 1. Frameworks & Best Practice Guidelines »
This section brings together the foundational documents that inform the design of interprofessional learning experiences. Here you will find the IPEC Core Competencies (link) and the WHO Rehabilitation Competency Framework (link), along with simulation-based practice guidelines (link) that together provide the theoretical grounding for every IPE and SIM activity in this hub.
- IPE Competency Frameworks
- IPEC: PDF files of core references.
- WHO Rehabilitation Competency Framework: PDF files of core references.
- Simulation Standards & Guidelines: Cross-linked with the SIM Best Practice Standards folder in the SIM Resources section.
- IPE Competency Frameworks
- 2. SIM Resources »
This section gathers the resources that will guide you through the design and implementation of a simulation experience, from professional standards to validated outcome measures. It includes:
- Health Professions Standards: Each SHMS health profession's code of ethics and discipline-specific SIM best practice standards, which are expected to guide the conduct of any IPE or SIM educational activity.
- SIM Best Practice Standards: Key healthcare simulation standards covering SIM design, SIM IPE design, general operations, facilitation, prebriefing, debriefing, evaluation of learning, and professional integrity. This folder also includes a SIM dictionary, a valuable tool for promoting shared terminology among facilitators and learners.
- SIM Consensus Statements: Two landmark papers: the global consensus statement on simulation-based practice in healthcare and the joint position statement on simulation-based education in emergency medical services training. Both are cornerstones for recognizing the value of simulation-based education in health care.
- Standardized Patient Standards: The Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) Standards of Best Practice.
- Validated SIM Outcome Measures: Two folders with links to core SIM validated tools currently utilized at SHMS: the Debriefing Assessment for Simulation in Healthcare (DASH-IV Short Form) and the Simulation Effectiveness Tool – Modified (SET-M).
- 3. Case Development Resources »
This section provides everything you need to design and develop IPE SIM case scenarios, including a fully developed multistage case scenario with materials for standardized patients (SPs), faculty, and students that can be integrated into the PT, OT, AT, SLP, and PA curricula.
- IPE SIM Case Scenarios: A series of scenarios that follow a patient and parent across different stages of rehabilitation. Each scenario can be used on its own or combined into a multistage IPE SIM experience. Together, they target the competencies of the WHO RCF Practice Domain, with emphasis on patient-centered care, communication, and problem solving.
- Avatar Case Development Templates: A guide to help faculty teams develop interprofessional case scenarios that are pedagogically purposeful, clinically authentic, and well suited to avatar-based virtual reality delivery, paired with a template that gives faculty a clear structure for designing meaningful avatar and SP interactions while maintaining pedagogical rigor.
- SIM Templates: Three core templates that standardize the information required to develop a SIM scenario:
a SIM Standardized Patient template, a SIM Student template, and a SIM Map. Together
they give faculty a clear structure for designing meaningful SIM learning experiences.
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Student Case Template — Outlines everything students receive before and during the encounter: targeted competencies, scenario objectives, expected behaviors, and session logistics. This version is deliberately limited to student-facing content, excluding any details reserved for the standardized patient.
Standardized Patient (SP) Case Template — Documents the complete scenario design used for SP training and production, giving the simulation team everything needed to bring the case to life.
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- 4. IPE Assessment & Evaluation Tools »
This section houses the core instruments selected to measure the competencies of the Practice Domain: patient-centered care, collaboration, communication, problem solving, decision making, and scope of practice.
- Metrics Master Map: A table that matches each instrument to the competency it evaluates, offers a glimpse of its psychometric characteristics, and links to a PDF of the instrument itself. Each instrument is identified as either student self-assessed or proxy-evaluated (observed by an SP or faculty member).
- 5. VR & Avatar Simulation »
Explore resources designed to help faculty incorporate AI-driven virtual patient simulations into teaching and learning through our AI avatar platform. These tools support the creation of realistic patient and participant interactions aligned with course learning objectives, clinical scenarios, and competency-based outcomes.
Faculty Access & AI-Driven Virtual Patient Creation
Faculty interested in using the AI Avatar platform must first request access.
Faculty Access & Avatar Creation
A series of onboarding resources is available to help faculty get started with AI avatar simulations.
- AI-Driven Virtual Patient as Simulated Patients – Overview
- AI Avatar Site Demo
- Creating and Scripting AI-Driven Virtaul Patients for Student Simulation
AI Avatar Simulation Platform
The platform offers a way to bring avatar-based simulation into your teaching: build your own avatar experience around your course's learning objectives. It includes a series of AI-driven virtual patients you can configure around your learning objectives and the characteristics of the case you want to portray (e.g., diagnosis, environmental context, competencies to elicit).
Note: Access to the platform requires prior approval through the Faculty Access Request process above.
For more information about faculty resources, please contact the Center’s Director:
Dr. Genevieve Zipp
Director, Center for Interprofessional Education
[email protected]