This practical book is designed to be a hands-on guide for healthcare simulation personnel to both understand the context of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in healthcare education and how to bring those concepts to life in simulation training.The first section of this guidebook grounds the readers in the concepts of EDI in contemporary culture and specifically within healthcare education. The second section gives practical tips and ideas on setting up a simulation program that is grounded in EDI principles. This section covers areas related to staff recruiting, faculty representation, appropriate manikin and moulage diversity, creating patient scenarios, inclusive debriefing, and more topics.The final section brings EDI in practice to life with real examples from around the world. Simulation examples, concepts, and principles that focus on a diverse range of patients and their needs. This includes patients of various races, religions, nationali
ties, abilities, and even scenarios of bias from a patient to healthcare provider.This book ensures the next generation of healthcare professionals are trained not only in an equitable and inclusive manner, but that they are prepared to approach all of their future patients that way.
Part 1 The History of EDI in Healthcare Education.- Why do we need this simulation textbook?.- A brief history of access to healthcare education.- Words matter.- Part 2 Integrating EDI in Healthcare Education and Simulation.- Embedding EDI into a national virtual simulation program for nursing, medical laboratory technology, paramedicine, and sonography students.- Creating and fostering an inclusive and culturally safe work environment.- Administrative considerations when incorporating EDI into a healthcare simulation program.- Recruiting standardized simulated patients for a diverse and inclusive population.- SP educator recommendations on designing and implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion training with SPs for SP Programs.- EDI in SP case development.- Fostering inclusive care: Caveats and special considerations in development and execution of LGBTQ+ simulation.- Implicit bias scenario design.- Moving from awareness to action: Simulation-based education to address
structural racism and implicit bias.- Simulation-based assessment of equity, diversity, and inclusion competencies.- Prebriefing and debriefing in an inclusive manner.- Teaching behavioral skills to promote equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-oppression through simulation.- Fostering LGBTQIA+ inclusive simulation.- Part 3 Real World Examples in Healthcare Simulation Practice.- Creating diversity for existing patient simulators.- Inclusion of EDI principles during interprofessional healthcare simulation-based sessions.- Transgender healthcare in IPE simulation: Considerations for promoting inclusion and health equity.- Medical interpreter and language barrier simulations for resident physicians.- Demystifying and deconstructing simulation-based scenarios based on religion or spirituality.- VR-based simulation for EDI in medical education. Empathy: The next phase on the journey to health equity.- Team faculty development for equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging: An expans
ive approach.- Using a checklist to assess a simulation for content bias.
