Forgive me father for I have simmed... 🙏🏻

SimCast returns for its first episode of 2026, with Tony and Lawrence back in the studio after the festive break and easing themselves into the new year by opening the simulation confessional. Armed with a shuffled deck of cards and a set of AI-generated prompts, they reflect candidly on the moments simulation educators rarely admit out loud, when technology fails, scenarios unravel, or facilitators quietly panic.

Across the episode, the conversation moves from blaming Wi-Fi for Bluetooth failures, to laughing at unexpected learner behaviour, pressing the wrong button, designing scenarios that are far too complex, and unintentionally reinforcing unsafe practice. Along the way, the discussion surfaces deeper themes around simulation artefacts, cognitive load, professional vulnerability, and the hard-earned lesson that simpler scenarios often lead to richer learning.

This is a reflective and good-humoured episode that foregrounds the human side of simulation-based education. Rather than polished best practice, Confessions of a Simulationist offers honesty, humility, and reassurance that even experienced educators are still learning, adapting, and occasionally confessing their simulation sins.

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SimCast Debriefing the Delegation Live at HPSN 2025. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?...

What happens when you try to debrief an entire conference?

In this special live episode of SimCast, recorded on stage at the Elevate HPSN Conference 2025, Tony Jermy and Lawrence Hill attempt something ambitious, slightly risky, and very on brand for simulation educators: they turn a plenary session into a live debrief.

The premise is simple. Conferences are full of brilliant concurrent sessions, and no one can attend everything. So rather than delivering a traditional keynote, SimCast invited the delegation to collectively reflect, share insights, and surface learning from across the day.

The reality? Debriefing a large audience, at the end of a long conference day, with roving microphones and varying levels of delegate energy, turns out to be… complex.

This episode captures the messy, human, and very real dynamics of large-group debriefing. At times it is energising, reflective, generous, and insightful. At other moments, it is awkwardly quiet, slightly uncomfortable, and a reminder that even experienced facilitators can inadvertently stretch psychological safety when fatigue sets in.

And that, of course, becomes part of the learning.

Reflections are shaped by delegate contributions from across disciplines, technician and educator perspectives, hallway conversations, and insights from the keynote delivered by Sharon Weldon (President-Elect, ASPiH).

This episode does not present a polished, perfect debrief. Instead, it models something arguably more valuable: authentic reflective practice, including recognition of what worked, what felt uncomfortable, and what facilitators might do differently next time.

If you have ever tried to debrief a large group, facilitated at the end of a long day, or wondered whether silence is reflective or just exhausting, this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar.

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Strap in for one of the most imaginative episodes of SimCast yet. In this Desert-Island-Discs-inspired simulation challenge, Lawrence and Tony face a dramatic scenario: the plane taking them to an international simulation conference has crash-landed. With only two minutes to grab equipment, they must choose three essential pieces of simulation kit to build a functioning sim centre on a desert island… plus one luxury item.

Whether you’re a simulation technologist, clinical educator, paramedic, ODP, or simply love creative approaches to sim-based education, this episode is packed with insights and humour.

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