Mastering Simulation Assessments: Designing for Accuracy and Impact
Overview
Reliable and valid assessment processes and instruments ensure trustworthy performance decisions in clinical simulations. This workshop is an exceptional opportunity to discover best practices in designing, implementing, and analyzing learner performance.
Join us as we explore captivating concepts such as backward design and rater calibration, all supported by real-world examples.
Target Audience
Residents, fellows, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, students, pharmacists, pharmacy techs, administrators, biostatisticians, and other healthcare professionals interested in participating.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss best practices in simulation-based assessment.
- Describe strategies for design and implementation of simulation-based assessment in graduate medical education and clinical training settings.
- Identify methods for analyzing and reporting learner outcomes and program evaluation in simulation-based education.
2025 Baptist Health Academic Week
Up to 16.75 CMEs/CEs
The 2025 Baptist Health Academic Week brings together healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators to share knowledge, discuss the latest advancements, and collaborate on improving patient care. Join us in this inspiring week as we engage in a variety of educational sessions, workshops and networking events, all aimed at enhancing clinical skills and promoting lifelong learning.
Program
1:55 p.m. | Opening Remarks Zuanel Diaz, Ph.D. |
2:00 p.m. | Welcome & Introductions Robert Turner, M.Ed., BSHIM, CHSOS |
2:05 p.m. | Mastering Simulation Assessments: Designing for Accuracy and Impact Jim Carlson, Ph.D., PA-C, CHSE-A and Amy Pabst, M.D. |
3:35 p.m. | Questions & Answers / Panel Discussion |
4:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
Venue
Faculty
Moderator

Director, Simulation Education
Baptist Health Academics
Faculty

Associate Provost for Innovation, VP for Interprofessional Education and Simulation
Rosalind Franklin University
North Chicago, Illinois

Medical Director, Department of Healthcare Simulation
Assistant Professor, Family and Preventive Medicine
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University
North Chicago, Illinois
Disclosures and Resolution of Conflicts of Interest
Amy Pabst, M.D., and Jim Carlson, Ph.D., PA-C, CHSE-A, faculty of this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and have indicated that the presentations or discussions will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.
*Ineligible companies - Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Accreditation
Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity has been approved for 2 credit hours, CE Broker Course #20-1291601, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine and by the Florida Council of Physician Assistants.
This activity has also been approved for 2 credit hours for Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Dietitians, Pharmacists and techs and Respiratory Therapists. Baptist Health South Florida CE Broker Provider #50-182.
Available Credit
- 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Speaker Credit™
- 2.00 General certificate of attendance
- 2.00 Florida Board of Dietitians
- 2.00 Nurse Practitioners
- 2.00 Florida Board of Nursing
- 2.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
- 2.00 Florida Board of Respiratory Therapy