Our editor-in-chief Pier Luigi Ingrassia takes a balance of the past year and presents global insights, expert articles, and exclusive interviews in the new SIMZINE issue
January marks the beginning of each new year. And it is always a time for reflection on the year gone by, to internalize the learnings and acknowledge all the good that has happened. Especially, to celebrate the progress made despite the challenges.
Our focus this year has been on expanding the healthcare simulation conversation. And we believe we have achieved that. We published 155 articles, both digital and in-print, giving voice to more than 90 authors from 22 countries spread across 5 continents (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, India, Italy, Morocco, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America). We were official media partners in 7 international scientific congresses: CEU (Florence, IT), SESSEP23 (Valencia, ES), FLASIC-RENASIM (Cancun, MX), SESAM23 (Lisbon, PT), SIMMED23 (Genoa, IT), SOCHISIM23 (Santiago de Chile, CL), ASPiH23 (Brighton, UK). Consistent with our ambition to create a larger community of enthusiast simulationists and professionals, we have published articles not only in Italian, English and Spanish, but also in French and Portuguese.
Eighteen different companies have trusted us and chosen SIMZINE as their communication platform to reach out to the simulationists’ community.
We became the first publishing house completely dedicated to healthcare simulation, launching the SIMZINE Library and publishing our first book in the SIMpeople series, The Dolls’ Engineer, about the last 30 years of simulation history told through the autobiography of a simulator inventor, Willem van Meurs.
Our thanks go to our authors and our staff. And most importantly, thanks to our readers for being part of SIMZINE.
But January is also a time for reflection on the future. And the focus for this coming year will be to continue expanding our global outreach. And this first issue of 2024 is already an example of that.
M. Sudhir, from United Arab Emirates, advises us on how to successfully establish and manage a simulated patient program, N. Sujee, simulationist from South Africa, explores 4 reasons to develop simulation as the heart of care in healthcare professional education, Bwelle and Guembou make us travel to Cameroon to find out how the Masso Pierre simulation center and the ASCOVIME association work to promote quality healthcare and M. Isla introduces us to MSF’s use of advanced simulation techniques for medical training and crisis response to improve healthcare in challenging settings around the world.
And in this issue we have 3 really special guests: David Gaba, the king of pioneering figures in healthcare simulation; Lou Oberndorf, a luminary in medical simulation industry; and Debra Nestel, the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Simulation in Healthcare (IJoHS)
I’m delighted also to announce we are launching our brand new podcast in French called SIM Moove, which adds to SIMZINE’s growing digital portfolio.
And we already have new ideas and new services in the pipeline. But I can’t tell you everything. Keep reading us and follow us on our social channels to stay up to date!
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