Published Manuscripts and book chapters

2022

Kerins J, Keay R, Smith SE, Tallentire VR. Assessing team behaviours and time to defibrillation during simulated cardiac arrest: A pilot study of internal medicine trainees. International Journal of Healthcare Simulation – Advances in Theory & Practice [in press]

Tallentire VR, Kerins J, McColgan-Smith S, Power A, Stewart F, Mardon J. Exploring the impact of interprofessional simulation on the professional relationships of trainee pharmacists and medical students: A constructivist interview study. International Journal of Healthcare Simulation – Advances in Theory & Practice [in press]

Kerins J, Smith SE, Tallentire VR. ‘Just pretending’: Narratives of professional identity transitions in internal medicine. Medical Education [in press]

Phillips, EC, Hamilton, AL, Clarke, B, Kerins, J, Tallentire, VR (2022). Online non-technical skills faculty training. Clinical Teacher. e13548.

Tallentire VR, Smith SE, Kerins J, McColgan-Smith S, Power A, Stewart F, Mardon J. Investigating how an interprofessional simulation influences tolerance of ambiguity. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning [in press]

Kerins J, Smith SE, Tallentire VR. ‘Us versus them’: A social identity perspective of internal medicine trainees. Perspectives on Medical Education [in press

Kerins J, McCully E, Anderson Stirling S, Smith SE, Tiernan JF, Tallentire VR (2022). The impact of simulation-based mastery learning, booster session timing and clinical exposure on confidence in intercostal drain insertion: a survey of internal medicine trainees in Scotland BMC Medical Education 22, 621

McAleer P, Tallentire VR, Anderson Stirling S, Edgar S, Tiernan JF (2022). Postgraduate medical procedural skills: attainment of curricular competencies using enhanced simulation-based mastery learning at a novel national boot camp. Clinical Medicine; 22: 125-30.

Keay R, May A. Scenario Writing for learning. In: Simulation Based Education, a practical approach. UK; Elsevier [in print]

2021

Kerins J, Smith SE, Anderson Stirling S, Wakeling J, Tallentire VR (2021). Transfer of training from an internal medicine boot camp to the workplace: Enhancing and hindering factors. BMC Medical Education; 21: 485.

Tallentire VR, Kerins J, McColgan-Smith S, Power A, Stewart F, Mardon J (2021). Exploring transformative learning for trainee pharmacists through interprofessional simulation: a constructivist interview study. Advances in Simulation; 6(1): 1-12

Kerins J, Hamilton AL, Pringle J, Farquhar F, Tallentire VR (2021). Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctors’ core workplace needs: a qualitative study of internal medicine trainees in Scotland. BMJ Open; 11: e053506

Scahill EL, Oliver NG, Tallentire VR, Edgar S, Tiernan JF (2021). An enhanced approach to simulation-based mastery learning: Optimising the educational impact of a novel, national postgraduate medical boot camp. Advances in Simulation; 6: 15.

Kerins J, Tallentire VR (2021). ‘Promises turn to dust…Trust into mistrust’: Medical students’ experiences of mistreatment. Medical Education; 55(4): 423-425

Mossenson A, Mukwesi C, Elaibaid M, Doverty J, May A, Murray M, Livingston P (2021). Vital Anaesthesia Simulation Training (VAST); immersive simulation designed for diverse settings. International Journal of Surgery: Global Health; 4: e64

Phillips EC, Doverty J (2021). Foundation anaesthesia and critical care education day (FACED): development, delivery and outcomes of a trainee-led course. Anaesthesia News. Issue 410. p10-11.

2020

Clarke B, Smith SE, Phillips EC, Hamilton AL, Kerins J, Tallentire VR (2020). Reliability of assessment of medical students’ non-technical skills using a behavioural marker system: Does clinical experience matter? BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning; 7(5): 285-292

Phillips EC, Smith SE, Clarke B, Hamilton AL, Kerins J, Hofer J, Tallentire VR (2020). Validity of the Medi-StuNTS behavioural marker system: Assessing the non-technical skills of medical students during immersive simulation. BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning; 7(1): 3-10

Phillips EC, Smith SE, Hamilton AL, Kerins J, Clarke B, Tallentire VR. Assessing medical students’ non-technical skills using immersive simulation: What are the essential components? Simulation in Healthcare; 16(2): 98-104

Kerins J, Smith SE, Phillips EC, Clarke B, Hamilton AL, Tallentire VR (2020). Exploring transformative learning when developing medical students’ non-technical skills. Medical Education; 54 (3): 264-74

Phillips EC, Lavery S, Dickson J, Webster K (2020). Simulated emergencies in the primary care setting. Medical Education. Doi: 10.1111/medu.14101.

Phillips EC, Neagle G, Cameron B, Moneypenny M (2019). It’s okay to talk: Suicide awareness simulation. Clinical Teacher. 16(4):373-377. doi: 10.1111/tct.13044.

2019

Hamilton AL, Kerins J, MacCrossan MA, Tallentire VR (2019). Medical students’ non-technical skills (Medi-StuNTS): Preliminary work developing a behavioural marker system for the non-technical skills of medical students in acute care. BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning; 5: 130-139.

May A (2019). The Where of simulation training. In: Obstetric Decision Making and Simulation. MacLennan, Robinson. UK, Cambridge.

May A, Boss L (2019). The Structured Debrief. In: Forrest, McKimm. Healthcare Simulation: At a glance. UK, Wiley.

Phillips EC, Lavery S, Dickson J (2019). Identifying GP trainee’s priorities in simulation training: a questionnaire to aid course development in Scotland. BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning. 6:103-104.

Phillips EC, Moneypenny M (2019). Tell me about your ideal… simulation mannequin. Anaesthesia News. Issue 385. p8-9.

2018

May A, Edgar S, Moneypenny M (2018) Faculty Development in Healthcare Simulation. In; Nestel D, Kelly M, Jolly B, Watson M (editors). Healthcare Simulation Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice. UK, Wiley

Ongoing research projects (updated November 2022)

Pharmacy Research

  • Assessing the impact of interprofessional simulation on trainee pharmacists’ tolerance of ambiguity
  • Design and evaluation of a marker system for pharmacists’ behavioural skills

Internal Medicine Trainee Research

  • Exploring trainee narratives of the transition to medical registrar
  • Exploring intergroup relations as experienced by internal medicine trainees

Refugee doctors research:

  • Designing a simulation curriculum for refugee doctors
  • Exploring the impact of simulation on refugee doctors

GP Research

  • Exploring the impact of GP in situ simulation on participants and system

Medical Students Research

  • Exploring medical student conceptualisations of feedback on their NTS
  • Designing and implementing an online platform to deliver faculty development for using Medi-StuNTS

Presentations at National and International Conferences

2022

AMEE conference, August 2022, Lyon, France

  • Kerins J, Smith SE, Tallentire VR. Exploring the transition to the medical registrar role in Scotland: A narrative analysis (oral presentation)

ASME annual scientific meeting, July 2022, Aberdeen, UK

  • Tallentire VR, Smith SE, Kerins J, Power A, Stewart F, Mardon J. Exploring how interprofessional simulation influences tolerance of ambiguity in medical students and trainee pharmacists (oral presentation)
  • Smith SE, Tallentire VR, Kerins J, Power A, Stewart F, Mardon J.  The development of TP-NOTS: A behavioural marker system for assessing trainee pharmacists’ non-technical skills (oral presentation)
  • Smith SE, Tallentire VR, Mardon J. Exploring the effects of GP in situ simulation on participants and systems (oral presentation)
  • Kerins J, Hamilton A, Pringle J, Farquhar F, Tallentire VR. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on core workplace needs of internal medicine trainees in Scotland (poster presentation)

NES annual virtual conference, April 2022, Scotland (online)

  • Kerins J, Smith SE, McColgan-Smith S, Power A, Stewart F, Mardon J. Investigating how interprofessional simulation influences tolerance of ambiguity in medical students and trainee pharmacists, Paper Number 73 (poster presentation)
  • Kerins J, Keay R, Smith SE, Tallentire VR. The impact of team behaviours on time to defibrillation in cardiac arrest: A pilot study.  (poster presentation)
  • Doverty J, Mardon J, Kerins J, Tallentire VR, Ingilok S, Eltom N, Livingstone P.  Development of simulation-based curriculum to support refugee doctors’ integration into clinical practice in Scotland.  (poster presentation)

SESAM annual conference, June 2022, Seville, Spain

  • Phillips EC, Doverty J. Inspiring future generations of anaesthetists through a trainee-led course: FACED (oral presentation

2021

ASME annual scientific meeting, July 2021, UK (online)

  • Tallentire VR, Kerins J, McColgan-Smith S, Mardon J. Exploring transformative learning for pre-registration pharmacists through interprofessional simulation.  (Invited panel member discussion – Inter-professional education)
  • Kerins J, Smith SE, Tallentire VR. Utilising the social identity approach to explore interprofessional relationships in healthcare. (Invited panel member discussion – Identity & Transitions)

NES Annual Virtual Conference, May 2021, Scotland (online)

  • Kerins J, exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted interprofessional relationships from the perspective of internal medical trainees (poster presentation)

SESAM annual conference, June 2021, Milan, Italy (online)

  • Phillips EC, Smith S, Hamilton AH, Kerins J, Clarke B, Tallentire VR. Validity of the Medi-StuNTS behavioural marker system: expert-novice comparisons using immersive simulation scenarios (oral presentation)
  • Phillips EC, Williams D, Lavery S, Dickson D. 2222: cardiac arrest in the simulation centre!’ (poster presentation)

ASPiH Virtual Conference, November 2021, UK (online)

  • Keay R, Kerins, J, Smith SE, Tallentire VR. Using the TEAM tool in high fidelity immersive simulation for internal medicine trainees: assessing leadership of cardiac arrest scenarios (oral presentation)

2020

ASPiH Virtual Conference, November 2020, UK (online)

  • Kerins J, Anderson-Stirling S, J Wakeling J, Tallentire VR. Transfer of skills from simulation to the workplace in Internal Medicine (poster presentation)

2019

SESAM annual conference, June 2019, Glasgow, UK

  • Phillips EC, Neagle G, Cameron B, Moneypenny M. Suicide awareness for senior medical students through simulation (oral presentation)
  • Phillips EC, Dickson J, Lavery S. When simulation poses a safety risk: reflection and actions taken following an incident during simulation (poster presentation

NES annual conference, May 2019, Glasgow, UK

  • Phillips EC, Dickson J, Lavery S, Moneypenny M. The use of tidal volumes achieved to demonstrate improvement in basic airway management by medical students (poster presentation)
  • Phillips EC, Lavery S, Dickson J, Webster K. General practice emergency care simulation: pilot course development and feedback (poster presentation)

TASME annual meeting, April 2019, Newcastle, UK

  • Phillips EC. Simulation experiences of doctors training in Scotland: perceived benefits, barriers and potential solutions (poster presentation)

Workshops and Seminars

Kerins J, Hamilton A, Scahill E, Phillips EC, Tallentire VR. Developing, implementing and evaluating a national simulation strategy for Internal Medicine Training’. Delivered as a Speedy Workshop at the SESAM Virtual Annual Meeting April 15th 2021

Tallentire VR, Kerins J, Phillips E, Clarke B. The Medi-StuNTS system: A behavioural marker system for the medical students’ non-technical skills within immersive simulation. Society for Simulation in Europe annual conference; 14th June 2019; Glasgow, UK

Tallentire VR, Morse J, Cooper A. Developing the non-technical skills of medical students: Using a behavioural marker system to guide a learning conversation. 8th International Clinical Skills conference; 20th May 2019; Prato, Italy

Tallentire VR, Hamilton A, Kerins J, Leighton K, Morse J. Developing the non-technical skills of medical students: Using a behavioural marker system in immersive simulation. Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare 9th annual national conference; 15th November 2018; Southport, UK

Tallentire VR, Hamilton A, Kerins J, Leighton K, Morse J. Medi-StuNTS: Improving medical student feedback through the development of a behavioural marker system for non-technical skills. Scottish Clinical Skills Network annual conference; 6th June 2018; Glasgow, UK

Getting Involved

Do you want to get involved in simulation research? Consider attending our research course: Scottish Centre for Simulation – Getting Started in Simulation-Based Research

If you have an idea for some simulation research that you would like to discuss, please get in touch with Vicky or Sam:
Vicky.Tallentire@ed.ac.ukSamantha.Smith7@nhs.scot

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