Human Factors Training

Human Factors Simulation Training at Barts Simulation and Education Department is designed to enhance team performance, communication, and decision-making in high-stakes clinical environments. These immersive sessions bring together multidisciplinary teams—including doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals—to rehearse realistic scenarios that reflect the complexities of cardiovascular care. By focusing on non-technical skills such as situational awareness, leadership, and task prioritisation, the training helps improve patient safety and team dynamics.

Sessions are facilitated by experienced educators and simulation faculty, often using high-fidelity manikins and in situ environments to replicate the clinical setting. Debriefing forms a core part of the experience, allowing teams to reflect on their performance, identify areas for improvement, and build a shared understanding of effective practice. Human Factors Simulation Training supports a culture of continuous learning and collaboration, ultimately aiming to strengthen clinical outcomes and staff resilience.

 Lecture-based Human Factors Training equips the multidisciplinary team with essential knowledge in non-technical skills that underpin safe, effective clinical practice and enhance patient safety. Covering key concepts such as situational awareness, communication, leadership, and decision-making, these sessions draw on real-world examples from cardiovascular care to contextualise learning. 

Led by experienced educators, the training encourages reflection on team dynamics and individual behaviours that impact outcomes. 

This theoretical foundation complements simulation-based training and supports the integration of human factors principles into daily clinical practice. 

 In-situ Human Factors Simulation Training at provides multidisciplinary teams with hands-on experience in managing real-time clinical scenarios within their actual working environment. These sessions focus on non-technical skills such as situational awareness, communication, leadership, and decision-making, all within the context of everyday cardiovascular care. 

By recreating high-stakes situations on the ward or in theatre, the training highlights team dynamics, latent safety threats, and system-level challenges. Facilitated by experienced educators, each session includes a structured debrief to promote reflection, learning, and behavioural change. 

This practical approach helps embed human factors principles directly into clinical workflows, supporting safer and more effective patient care.