About TRISIM

In the last few years these four departments intensified their collaborations, resulting in several shared projects. But despite the increasing collaboration, there was considerable fragmentation of knowledge and expertise regarding research on simulation-based education. Multiple researchers and staff members are involved in this, but best practices, tools, infrastructure, and knowledge were not always shared between colleagues and across departments. A ‘simulation day’ organised in January 2021 brought together more than 30 interested staff members all connected to the MUMC+, illustrating there is great demand for connection and exchange of ideas. Following this simulation day, the idea was born to bring experience, knowledge, and research of the different groups together and start building a virtual expertise centre for simulation-based education in healthcare in Maastricht. The expertise centre can mitigate fragmentation of expertise and facilitate collaboration between departments and staff, ultimately leading to high-quality educational activities involving non-human and human simulation that strengthen the transition and transfer of complex skills into daily practice and thereby inducing improvements in patient safety.

TRISIM intends to be an international leading research and development institute for simulation-based education in healthcare and continuous professional development for simulation instructors. We aim to establish: an open thinktank for diverse innovations applied to healthcare simulation, an inspiring and innovative research community, and a leading partner for developing and maintaining state of the art (inter)national continuous life-long learning curricula for simulation-based education professionals in healthcare.