ProfClaire Condron

Claire Condron was a founding Senior Lecturer in Simulation based education at RCSI, and has over 20 year's of experience in designing, delivering and evaluating teaching and learning across the healthcare professions. Claire took up a senior lectureship in Simulation in 2012 and has delivered over 6000 simulation interventions working with the schools of medicine, physiotherapy, pharmacy, PA, paramedics and postgraduate surgery. Claire works with faculty on simulation curriculum design, programming, testing scenarios, and training simulation users on high-quality curriculum delivery and debriefing skills. She was instrumental in establishing the Simulated Patient Programme at RCSI. She is an experienced researcher and holds a PhD in immunology. Her particular area of interest is understanding the social architecture and scaffolding required to learn in groups through SBE with a view to offering an empirically validated framework that can guide curricular instructional design. Our work aims to promote the operationalization of resilience through controlled stress in SBE with particular focus on debriefing of that controlled stress to build co-operative language skills, problem solving skills and coping mechanisms. Particular attention focuses on the development of professional identity and the transferability of learning from SBE to lifelong learning habits.