Sim Sessions
If you’re documenting a simulation session for a single student, create a solo simulated patient evaluation instead.
A Sim Session is the shared scenario or event: the date, cohort, facilitator, patient setup, team members, clock, scenario notes, comments, and scoring.
A Sim Patient Eval is the student’s actual evaluation record that comes out of that session. One Sim Session can create one Sim Patient Eval per student participant. The Sim Session is the event; the Sim Patient Eval is what lands in the student’s evaluation and progress record.
Key roles
Section titled “Key roles”Before choosing how to finish a Sim Session, two roles matter:
Facilitator: The person running or managing the Sim Session. They can set up the scenario, manage participants, end the session, and choose whether to simply complete the evals or complete and assign them to students.
Evaluator: The person responsible for approving a specific student’s Sim Patient Eval. This is set per participant. The evaluator may be the same person as the facilitator, but does not have to be.
Completing evals
Section titled “Completing evals”| Evaluator on the student’s eval | Instructor chooses | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluator is the facilitator | Complete | The eval is immediately approved/completed. Use this when the facilitator has everything needed, including any required narrative or data. |
| Evaluator is not the facilitator | Complete | The eval is submitted to the selected evaluator for approval. The Sim Session is ended, but the eval is not fully complete until that evaluator approves it. |
| Evaluator is the facilitator | Complete & Assign Evals to Students | The eval is assigned to the student first. The student can finish narrative/ePCR-style details, then submit it back to the facilitator for approval. |
| Evaluator is not the facilitator | Complete & Assign Evals to Students | The eval is assigned to the student first. After the student finishes and submits it, it goes to the selected evaluator, not necessarily the facilitator. |
Requirement credit
Section titled “Requirement credit”When the Sim Patient Eval is approved, it can start counting toward student requirements immediately.
Skills attached to the sim count right away. They can satisfy formative or summative requirements, but only if that skill requirement allows simulation credit.
Patients also count right away, but the patient must meet the minimum learning-objective threshold for the phase. Formative uses the lower threshold, roughly yellow / yellow / gray. Summative uses the higher threshold, roughly green / green / yellow. The patient requirement must also allow simulation credit.