Simulation Podcasts
To help keep you up to speed with the latest in simulation for anaesthesia and associated practices, we've collected some podcasts from the RCoA and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. You can listen on this page, or via your podcast app (subscribe to Anaesthesia on Air and FICMLearning). We'll periodically add relevant episodes as they are published.
Simulation-based education in anaesthesia
In this episode of Anaesthesia on Air, former Dinwoodie Simulation fellow Dr Steffan Glaze, Professor Cristina Diaz-Navarro and Dr Ed Mellanby (simulation leads in Wales and Scotland, respectively) discuss simulation-based education in anaesthesia and the context in medical simulation around recent guidance from the College.
They share how they've developed their own work in simulation, how listeners can use recommendations in the guidance to improve and influence their own practices, and what future simulation faculty can do to develop their skills, and even apply an understanding of anaesthetic simulation to their work in novel ways.
Related information:
- Guidance for simulation-based education in anaesthesia training
- RCoA Simulation Advisory Group and Network Meetings
- ASPiH (Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare)
- ASPiH Standards 2023 for Simulation-Based Practice
- Register for ASPiH Conference 2025 11th-13th November 2025
- NHSE Technology Enhance Learning Becoming Simulation Faculty resources
Career breaks and return to work podcast
RCoA Podcast: Dr Lucy Williams interviews Dr Jill Horn and Dr Caroline Kane on career breaks and return to work. [Published March 2020.]
Mastery learning podcast
RCoA Podcast: Graham Blair interviews Dr Michael Moneypenny on Mastery Learning. [Published December 2019.]
Further information and articles:
- NHS Lothian
- Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network
- McGaghie WC. When I say… mastery learning. Medical education. 2015 Jun;49(6):558-9.
- McGaghie WC, Issenberg SB, Barsuk JH, Wayne DB. A critical review of simulation‐based mastery learning with translational outcomes. Medical Education. 2014 Apr;48(4):375-85.
- McGaghie WC, Issenberg SB, Cohen ER, Barsuk JH, Wayne DB. Medical education featuring mastery learning with deliberate practice can lead to better health for individuals and populations. Academic Medicine. 2011 Nov 1;86(11):e8-9.
The RCoA Simulation Strategy podcast
Graham Blair, Associate Director of Education and Events at the RCoA, interviews Professor Bryn Baxendale about the RCoA Simulation Strategy. We cover what is the simulation strategy, what it covers and how will it shape simulation at the College as well as across the specialty over the next few years. [Published December 2019.]
In-situ simulation podcast
In this podcast, Andrew Jacques talks about how he developed an in-situ simulation programme on their intensive care unit in Reading.
To explore more information, here is the link to the FICM website