Programs
Professional practice · Facilitator-led
Clinical Judgement
Six simulations of judgement under uncertainty, run weekly, measured over time.
A weekly program for clinicians, assigned by an educator, supervisor or clinical lead, built on Renatus. Six simulation rooms · Four weeks, two rooms a week then one · Unlimited attempts · Ongoing thereafter.
4 weeks · 6 rooms · Total time 2 hours 15 min
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- Who it's for
- Doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics and allied health professionals at every level, in primary care, emergency, ward, community and pre-hospital settings, and the educators who supervise them.
- Cadence
- 4 weeks
- Format
- Facilitator-led
- Program sessions
- 4
Who it's for
Doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics and allied health professionals at every level, in primary care, emergency, ward, community and pre-hospital settings, and the educators who supervise them.
Output
- A scored report after every room, with the moment that earned each score, the bias the evidence shows and one recommended focus
- A trajectory across every attempt, dimension by dimension
- For the educator, a Ren summary of each clinician and a team report
- Scored against published frameworks: clinical reasoning (Higgs and Jones), Croskerry's cognitive error in diagnosis, Endsley's situational awareness, shared decision making (Elwyn), Rest's four-component model, Boyd's OODA loop, Klein's recognition-primed decision-making and source-monitoring research
Program contents
- Diagnostic reasoning · Knowledge under examination — Clinical Judgement · Test your knowledge
- Communicating uncertainty · Ethical judgement — Difficult Conversation · Ethics Test
- Escalation under pressure — Crisis Decision
- Accounting for a decision — Hearing Preparation
How the program works
A weekly program for clinicians, assigned by an educator, supervisor or clinical lead, built on Renatus. Six simulation rooms · Four weeks, two rooms a week then one · Unlimited attempts · Ongoing thereafter.
The rooms
Clinical Judgement
Simulation
Calibration: role title and discipline, clinician level (early career, mid, senior or leadership), practice setting (primary care, ED, ward, community and so on), with practice jurisdiction or scope if they name one.
Test your knowledge
Simulation
Set-up: the confirmed topic and scope, the selected listener archetype, and the selected challenge level.
Difficult Conversation
Simulation
Set-up: their role and seniority, the kind of conversation being simulated, who they are having it with, and what is at stake.
Ethics Test
Simulation
Calibration: role title, role power (individual contributor, manager or senior leader), industry or sector, and a brief description of working context.
Crisis Decision
Simulation
Set-up: their role and seniority, the industry context, and the type of crisis to practise.
Hearing Preparation
Simulation
The clinician works from the case bundle attached to the program.
Why this program exists
Clinicians decide with incomplete information, on a patient who is changing, with the next patient waiting. This program prepares them through simulation. Ren builds each scene from the clinician's real role, discipline, level and setting, and plays every person in it, so every scenario is new and moves with each decision they make.
What you'll achieve
- Rehearsal of a full scene, as often as they want it: the presentation that does not fit, the guideline under examination, the conversation about uncertainty, the ethical line, the deterioration, the panel afterwards
- A scored report after every room: each dimension with the moment that earned its score, what worked, the risk signals, strengths, development areas, blind spots where the evidence shows them, and one recommended focus with a first step
- Unlimited attempts at every room, each a fresh scene for their current role and level, scored on the same dimensions and charted against every earlier attempt, for as long as they practise
At a glance
- Who it's for
- Doctors from foundation to consultant, nurses and nurse practitioners, midwives, paramedics and allied health professionals, in primary care, emergency departments, wards, community and pre-hospital settings. Every room calibrates to role, discipline, level and setting, so one cohort can include a resident, a charge nurse and a consultant. It assumes participants already hold their clinical training. What it measures is the judgement that training is applied with, scored the same way on every attempt.
- Cadence
- 4 weeks
- 1
- Diagnostic reasoning · Knowledge under examination · Clinical Judgement · Test your knowledge · Read Differential Reasoning and Situational Awareness; read Handling the Unknown
- 2
- Communicating uncertainty · Ethical judgement · Difficult Conversation · Ethics Test · Read Framing and Follow-through; read Ethical Recognition; read the Ren summary across four rooms
- 3
- Escalation under pressure · Crisis Decision · Read Escalation Decision and Communication
- 4
- Accounting for a decision · Hearing Preparation · Read Knowledge boundaries; read the team report; set the ongoing plan
Session by session
1
Week 1: Diagnostic reasoning · Knowledge under examination
Establish how the clinician gathers information, holds a differential and reads a trajectory when the presentation does not fit, and how well they know the guideline they work to.
2
Week 2: Communicating uncertainty · Ethical judgement
Tell a patient, family member or colleague something difficult, clearly and with care, and leave with a next step both sides understand
3
Week 3: Escalation under pressure
Decide, communicate and revise when a situation moves faster than the information arrives.
4
Week 4: Accounting for a decision
Answer pointed questions about a written clinical record directly, accurately, and within what they personally know.
Six simulations of judgement under uncertainty, run weekly, measured over time.
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