ProfClaire Condron

Our research contributes to a better understanding of how to use simulation for education, training and innovation. Collaborating with experts from diverse fields to explore how simulation-based education can be applied across various disciplines our work focuses on investigating different pedagogical strategies and instructional methods for integrating simulations into educational curricula effectively and on creating and refining educational resources for safe practice of clinical skills.

The RCSI SIM Innovations Lab is a hub that fosters efforts in design of health professions education simulators for skills practice. In addition, we work on health care systems engineering, medical device design and human factors engineering allowing health scientists, engineers and clinicians to work together to turn ideas into functioning prototypes. The RCSI SIM Innovations Lab is a critical partner in the innovation and design process providing realistic patient care settings to build the stakeholder ecosystem in which to design and test innovations from concept to prototype to pilot product.