Keynote Speakers

Jan-Joost Rethans, MD, PhD, Associate Professor

Keyonte Address:
Simulated and Standardized Patients: why would you want to use them? Facts and fantasies about the use of Simulated and Standardized patients as educational tools for the delivery of quality in health care.

Current Position: Director of the CORE (COnsultational and Reflective Skills Programme, Director of the Simulated Patient Programme and coordinator of the Master Phase Skillslab programme of the Faculty of Health Medicine & Life Sciences (FHML), Maastricht University.

Jan-Joost Rethans studied medicine at Maastricht University. After finishing specialist training in family practice he worked 17 years part-time as a family physician and as a researcher at the Research Institute ‘Extra’ of Maastricht University. During this period he also worked three years in Norway, both as a clinician and as a researcher. He has a PhD in Medical Education from Maastricht University (1990, ‘cum laude’- rating). He delivered 7 PhD students who all conducted studies in the field of performance assessment of physicians, mostly using the methodology of incognito standardized patients. In 1998 he joined the Skillslab of FHML, Maastricht University. He was elected as chair (1998-2004) of the Executive Board of the European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN). In 2004 he joined the Board of Directors of ASPE (Association of Standardized Patient Educators), where he was initiator and first chair of the Committee ASPE-International. He held positions as visiting professor at Gifu University, Medical Education Development Centre, Japan and at Osaka Medical School, Osaka during a three months stay in Japan (2008). In 2010 he received the Outstanding Educator Award 2010 by ASPE as first person outside North America. Dr. Rethans is author/co-author of more than 70 publications in international peer reviewed medical journals. The majority of his papers deal with simulated or standardized patient methodology.

Bengt Littke

Keynote Address:
The use of simulators in Military Aviation

Currnet Position: Senior Advisor - Gripen Marketing, Saab Aeronautics

Bengt is an experienced Program Director with Saab and was recently appointed Senior Advisor within Gripen Marketing. He will continue to manage the Gripen International share of the government to government agreement between the Czech Republic and Sweden for lease of 12 single-seater and 2 dual-seater Gripen aircraft. His previous responsibility was for the contract with the Republic of South Africa for purchase of 17 single-seater and 9 dual-seater Gripen aircraft.

Bengt has a background as a fighter pilot with the Swedish Air Force and holds a degree in Computer Science. He has also a long history of successful leadership in Swedish industry founded on 15 years experience with Saab Aerosystems, and 5 years with Ericsson before joining Gripen International 8 years ago. He is a Fellow of The Royal Aeronautical Society in London and has served on the RAeS Flight Simulation Committee for more than 10 years. He is still a reservist officer with the Swedish Air Force.

Outside of Bengt’s professional life he sings with the Linköping University Male Voice Choir. He has personal interests in skiing and skating. Bengt is also a qualified sailing instructor with the Royal Swedish Yacht Club.

Dr Andrew McIndoe

Keynote Address:
Using simulators to perform high stakes assessments: lessons learned from the UK FRCA examinations

Dr Andrew McIndoe was appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust in 1998 with a special interest in simulation and education. He has been a core faculty member of the Bristol Medical Simulation Centre since 1997, holds honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol, and is national clinical lead for the national e-learning Anaesthesia project. He is a current examiner for the Royal College of Anaesthetists. a member of the RCoA Simulation Steering Group, and is section lead for simulation as an assessment tool in the Primary FRCA examination.

Other Speakers

Willem van Meurs, PhD

Presentation:
Simulator fidelity and model validity

Willem L. van Meurs was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 1962. He obtained the MSc degree in electrical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1987, and the Doctoral degree in control engineering from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, in 1991. At the University of Florida, from 1992-1998, he was co-inventor of the Human Patient Simulator, commercialized by Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI), Sarasota, Florida. As a consultant to METI, from 1998 to present, he was co-developer of the simulators: PediaSIM®, BabySIM®, iStan®, and METImanTM, as well as of the Muse software.
He was an invited associate professor of applied mathematics at the University of Porto from 1998-2001. He presided the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM) from 2005-2007. He is the author of "Modeling and simulation in biomedical engineering: Application to cardiorespiratory physiology", New York, McGraw-Hill Professional, Aug. 2011.
Since 1998 he is an investigator at the Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica (INEB) Porto, Portugal, with a program focusing on physiologic models for educational simulation and on a training simulator for obstetric emergencies. He lives with his wife and two children in Lahitte-Toupière, France, and plays upright bass in the Cadillac Club Trio and the duo A Voix Basse.

Paul van Katwijk

Round-table Discussion:
Does METI LearningSpace offer enough space for Learning?

Paul van Katwijk is 56 year old and lives in Enschede, The Netherlands. Having studied Psychology in Groningen in the 1970’s he has gone on to specialize in teaching communication skills and professional behavior. Over a period of ten years he trained and coached general practitioners at the Radboud University Nijmegen and at the VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam.
Since 2003 Paul has worked for the University of Twente. Together with a small and enthusiastic team he develops and organizes courses, training and coaching methods of communication and professional behavior. Furthermore he is coordinator for the internships of master students and a professional supervisor and group leader of Balint groups.
He is married, has two daughters and a dog.

Tom Doyle
Vice President & Chief Learning Officer - Education and Training - CAE Healthcare

Tom Doyle has over 28 years experience as a registered nurse, hospital administrator and nurse educator at all levels of education. He spent five years as Coordinator of the Patient Simulation Program at one of the first colleges in the US to purchase the Human Patient Simulator. He facilitated integration into the nursing program curriculum in every course in addition to most of the allied health programs including EMS, Medical Assisting, and Dental Hygiene.

As Vice President and Chief Learning Officer of Education and Training for CAE Healthcare, he facilitates a team of educators around the world to assist customers in applying CAE Healthcare's technology for learning. He leads the development of turnkey programs for curriculum assistance using patient simulation across the disciplines that provide patient care.

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