SIMUL8 for Healthcare: training course and workshop
Prerequisites:
The course is suitable for delegates with good analytical skills but who are unfamiliar with SIMUL8.
Course Outline:
The course starts with the basics of SIMUL8 but quickly moves on demonstrate how to control the pathway followed by work items (eg. patients, telephone calls); the time spent on each activity in the process; splitting and re-assembling of work items (eg. sending a patient's blood sample for analysis then collecting the result and adding it to the patient's case notes); staff availability and shift patterns. You will learn how to attach key details to each work item (eg. name, age, speciality, admission date) that will be used to control routing, process cycle times and so on; and how to incorporate variable timings and demographic mixes. Time will also be spent on SIMUL8's internal programming language, Visual Logic, which provides scope for modelling any situation through conditional structures such as 'if ... then..', etc.Over the first 2 days of the course, delegates are set 4 linked assignments of increasing complexity that further reinforce the features being described.
The final day of the course will be run as a workshop with delegates developing a simulation based on a real healthcare issue, from scratch. This will involve preparing a basic process map (in SIMUL8), some straightforward analysis of an associated data set to identify missing and misleading information, followed by the development of the simulation, and examination of the impact of making various process improvements.
Who should attend:
- Planning managers
- Service managers
- Information analysts and managers
- OR analysts and managers
- Service Redesign managers