Star Wars and Simulation Based Education: Designing the Jedi Training Academy
Nathan Oliver and Ed Mellanby
There was a time, in a galaxy far, far away, where simulation based education was deployed in ways that didn’t best suit learners’ needs or used as a one sized fits all approach to some quite complex educational needs. Thankfully this is changing, and will need to change going forward as we build the curriculum for the future. This workshop seeks to examine the context and environment where simulation based education is able to have the greatest impact and how different methods might be considered to meet the complex and varied learning needs that exist in clinical and professional practice. We hope you can join us.
Nathan Oliver
Fatigued from a lifetime of wrestling crocodiles and spiders in my native Australia, as well as the horrible sunny weather, I moved with
my family to Edinburgh at the end of 2014 to take up the post of Clinical Simulation Programme Manager within the Medical Education Directorate at NHS Lothian.
I have a nursing background, specialising clinically in acute and emergency nursing and moved into clinical education in 2010 working with undergraduate and postgraduate clinicians, mainly from the nursing stream and with a particular interest in simulation based education.
I was able to complete a Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education at the University of Canberra in Australia before the move and a Masters in Education at the University of Edinburgh subsequently.
I currently manage four simulation centres across Lothian, and oversee a range of simulation programmes across the Health Board, with a team of technicians, clinicians, and educationalists.