WISER Fellowship Alumna to Participate in 18th Annual Safar Symposium

This year’s 18^th Annual Safar Symposium is a two-day virtual and FREE event, with the 2^nd day focusing on healthcare simulation. WISER leads the Simulation Lecture Session: Challenges in Maintaining Simulation Excellence on May 20^th, with eight participating speakers, including a previous WISER Fellow, Dr. Usapan (Becky) Surabenjawong.

WISER is pleased to be one of the first centers awarded accreditation for our Fellowship Program through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. The work and effort of our past scholars helped us to establish our Fellowship program and we are thankful to still be in communication with many of them. It is through our continued relationships that we were able to invite Dr. Surabenjawong to present at this year’s Safar Symposium on “The COVID Challenges and the New Normal in Thai Simulation”.

Dr. Surabenjawong is an emergency physician at the Siriraj Hospital at Mahidol University in Salaya, Thailand. In 2016, she was a research fellow for simulation at WISER. She is the course director of the integrating airway workshop and simulation-based program for 5th and 6th year medical students and a committee member of the Thai Simulation Society.

During her one-year Fellowship at WISER, Dr. Surabenjawong’s primary goal was to study airway management education. She planned, implemented and evaluated an innovative airway management simulation research project. Through her project, she investigated undergraduate nursing student airway management skill acquisition in the lab setting by comparing outcomes of expert instruction versus peer to peer instruction.

Serving as her mentors, Drs. Paul Phrampus and John O’Donnell assisted in all phases of the project including in the process of recruiting other members of the research team, recruiting subjects, sheparding the process through the Pitt IRB, running the research protocol and in data management. Following Dr. Surabenjawong’s completion of the Fellowship and return to her Faculty position in Thailand, Drs. Phrampus and O’Donnell continued to support her work through submission to publications.

We were all very proud of Dr. Surabenjawong when her study entitled “A single-blinded randomized crossover trial comparing peer-to-peer with standard instruction on airway management skill training” was accepted for publication by the English-language journal Clinical Simulation in Nursing.

We invite you to register for the 18^th Annual Safar Symposium and encourage you to attend the May 20^th Simulation Lecture Session.

To learn more about Fellowship opportunities at WISER, please visit our website or feel free to contact us.

This year’s 18^th Annual Safar Symposium is a two-day virtual and FREE event, with the 2^nd day focusing on healthcare simulation. WISER leads the Simulation Lecture Session: Challenges in Maintaining Simulation Excellence on May 20^th, with eight participating speakers, including a previous WISER Fellow, Dr. Usapan (Becky) Surabenjawong.

WISER is pleased to be one of the first centers awarded accreditation for our Fellowship Program through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. The work and effort of our past scholars helped us to establish our Fellowship program and we are thankful to still be in communication with many of them. It is through our continued relationships that we were able to invite Dr. Surabenjawong to present at this year’s Safar Symposium on “The COVID Challenges and the New Normal in Thai Simulation”.

Dr. Surabenjawong is an emergency physician at the Siriraj Hospital at Mahidol University in Salaya, Thailand. In 2016, she was a research fellow for simulation at WISER. She is the course director of the integrating airway workshop and simulation-based program for 5th and 6th year medical students and a committee member of the Thai Simulation Society.

During her one-year Fellowship at WISER, Dr. Surabenjawong’s primary goal was to study airway management education. She planned, implemented and evaluated an innovative airway management simulation research project. Through her project, she investigated undergraduate nursing student airway management skill acquisition in the lab setting by comparing outcomes of expert instruction versus peer to peer instruction.

Serving as her mentors, Drs. Paul Phrampus and John O’Donnell assisted in all phases of the project including in the process of recruiting other members of the research team, recruiting subjects, sheparding the process through the Pitt IRB, running the research protocol and in data management. Following Dr. Surabenjawong’s completion of the Fellowship and return to her Faculty position in Thailand, Drs. Phrampus and O’Donnell continued to support her work through submission to publications.

Former WISER Fellow Dr. Usapan Surabenjawong and Dr. John O’Donnell at the International Assessment Conference in Simulation held at SiriRaj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, January 2018

We were all very proud of Dr. Surabenjawong when her study entitled “A single-blinded randomized crossover trial comparing peer-to-peer with standard instruction on airway management skill training” was accepted for publication by the English-language journal Clinical Simulation in Nursing.

We invite you to register for the 18^th Annual Safar Symposium and encourage you to attend the May 20^th Simulation Lecture Session.

To learn more about Fellowship opportunities at WISER, please visit our website or feel free to contact us.

WISER Highlights – Spring 2021