Abstract
Several recent literature reviews have been published with the aim to determine how to optimise a debriefing. A main element found in these reviews was the importance of structuring the debriefing. Within the steps usually outlined in the debriefing, the description phase allows participants to describe their recollections and establish a shared mental model of what happened during the simulation. The description phase is used in many debriefing models but how to realise this description remains unclear. We provide an original tool to ensure a highly structured description phase: the “Timeline Debriefing Tool”.The Timeline Debriefing Tool, or TDT, is constructed on visual support such as a whiteboard or a flipchart. It allows for a clear description phase, makes the process more dynamic, promotes exchanges between participants and establishes a clear and shared vision of the simulation in visual support which can be used by the instructor in the analysis phase. Moreover, the timeline allows participants to discover their performance gaps by themselves, thus beginning deeper cognitive processing in the participants’ mind and promoting reflection in the analysis phase.
Highlights
Based on the authors’ experience in faculty development for simulation debriefings, we describe a highly structured strategy that we have found helpful for organising the description phase: the “Timeline Debriefing Tool”
The description phase is an important step of the debriefing process with two main objectives: detail the participants’ recollection of the simulation, and establish a shared mental model of what happened during the event [19, 20]
Performing the description phase using the Timeline Debriefing Tool reinforces the building of a structured process with very clear information, preparing us for the analysis phase
Summary
Based on the authors’ experience in faculty development for simulation debriefings, we describe a highly structured strategy that we have found helpful for organising the description phase: the “Timeline Debriefing Tool”. The Timeline Debriefing Tool is used during the description phase using visual support such as whiteboard or flipchart and unfolds in the following steps.
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