Episodes

  • Curious Now #13: How We Talk Shapes the Way We Work

    Curious Now #13: How We Talk Shapes the Way We Work
    Aug 22 2025
    This week on Curious Now, bring home the heart of this summer's work on internal resets, thought bystanding, communication, and teamwork. Our workout of the week is a simple one: go from mental rehearsal to actual practice. In previous weeks we asked ourselves, and this week ask the group: • “Who sees this differently?” • “What am I not noticing?” Learn more and get coaching from Jenny Rudolph at at www.harvardmedsim.org.
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    15 mins
  • New Podcast Coming Soon! Get Ready for "Dare to Be Ready"

    New Podcast Coming Soon! Get Ready for "Dare to Be Ready"
    Aug 15 2025
    Coming soon on the CMS Podcast channel-- The "Dare to Be Ready" podcast with Chris Roussin! Join us and a series of rotating guests as we examine readiness challenges across a broad swath of healthcare settings, and work with experts to solve their team problems in real time. Our first episodes include getting Boston Emergency Room teams ready to handle diabetic patients who are "safe" to be discharged but likely to end up back in the ER without additional support, getting surgical teams at a peripheral hospital in Switzerland ready to declare a crisis and prepare to transport a patient they don't have the resources to care for, and much more! Dare to Be Ready will premiere in September, so keep your ears open! Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Youtube.
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    3 mins
  • Curious Now Listeners #12: "You have to do a scene assessment."

    Curious Now Listeners #12: "You have to do a scene assessment."
    Aug 8 2025
    On this week’s Curious Now Listeners, Jenny, Laura Rock, and Janice Palaganas each share a recent time that they’ve struggled to be transparent with their own thinking as they rejoin us to discuss their experience with last week’s workout of sharing one vulnerable point of view in a conversation to try to work towards a collaborative inquiry rather than mystery and defensiveness. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
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    24 mins
  • Curious Now #12: The Greatest Obstacle to Effective Learning Conversations

    Curious Now #12: The Greatest Obstacle to Effective Learning Conversations
    Jul 31 2025
    In decades of faculty and clinician training at the Center for Medical Simulation, we’ve identified one element of our approach to Good Judgment learning conversations that people have the most difficulty with. This obstacle can take what should be an insightful, curious inquiry and leave it with a defensive or confused learner. Similar effects happen in negotiations at point of care and feedback conversations. The greatest obstacle is this: clearly and transparently sharing what you think about the situation. There are many reasons why we struggle with this, from thinking that if we share what we believe, it will be too harsh or too threatening for the other person, to believing that sharing our point of view will be used against us and that it would be safer to try to unilaterally steer the discussion without it. In this week’s workout, you’ll be challenged to try sharing your underlying point of view in a situation where that feels vulnerable to you. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
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    20 mins
  • Curious Now Listeners #11: "This respiratory therapist knows something I don't."

    Curious Now Listeners #11: "This respiratory therapist knows something I don't."
    Jul 25 2025
    Janice Palaganas and Laura Rock join us for our first Listeners episode of this new chapter! This week we are discussing how the mental rehearsal of asking “What am I missing?” worked out for them in situations where they were very sure that they were right. Emerging again is a theme where our listeners find that they experience the work of checking their emotions and getting curious very different in professional settings where they are working in a certain mode versus how they conduct themselves in ‘default mode’ in their personal life. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
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    16 mins
  • Curious Now #11: You May Be Right, You May Be Crazy

    Curious Now #11: You May Be Right, You May Be Crazy
    Jul 18 2025
    Join us for our third chapter of Curious Now, as we talk about words and mindsets that can transform toxic culture! Becoming skeptical of your own thoughts and beliefs, bystanding your own perception of events so that you can ask with curiosity: “What am I missing here?” We’re setting the stage for our third chapter of Curious Now, looking at how we can skillfully lead teams and scale up our good judgment approach to not just ourselves but the people around us. We’ve talked previously about becoming aware of our own reactive judgments and perceiving them as thoughts rather than reality. But what we mean here is a more challenging exercise: can we bystand not just what we might call ‘System 1’ thoughts, which are easy to understand as hot or instinctive reactions, but also our ‘System 2’ thoughts which are cooler, more considered and, at least to us, rational? • Get coaching from Jenny Rudolph at www.harvardmedsim.org • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
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    19 mins
  • Curious Now Listeners #10: "I could have asked for the frame."

    Curious Now Listeners #10: "I could have asked for the frame."
    Jul 11 2025
    BJ So and Mel Barlow join us for the final time to discuss last week’s exercise of trying to come up with a frame to understand an action we saw that didn’t make sense in the moment. BJ shares the story of a near miss in a complex case, and how he tried to understand his junior doctor’s actions. • Get coaching from Jenny Rudolph at www.harvardmedsim.org • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
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    13 mins
  • Curious Now #10: Little Acts of Genius

    Curious Now #10: Little Acts of Genius
    Jul 3 2025
    Little Acts of Genius: In this week’s Curious Now, we’re introducing the idea of ‘Frames, Actions, Results’, an action science framework that CMS has used for many years to help advanced clinical and debriefing practitioners overcome the internal obstacles that are keeping them from being able to reach their goals. Here, we want to apply the framework to other people’s actions—what could the person’s frame have been that, when we view their action through that frame, the totally strange or confounding thing they did is, in fact, a little act of genius? • Get coaching from Jenny Rudolph at www.harvardmedsim.org • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
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    15 mins