Erik Hein

Hoe ziet het werk van de chirurg en zijn OK team eruit? Hoe werkt dit team veilig en effectief samen? Is er tijd ingeregeld om te trainen op ‘presteren onder druk’ en wat is ‘Just Culture’? Maar we hebben het ook over de ‘debrief’, emoties en het belang van fysieke en mentale fitheid voor de […]

Before I discuss the dissertation, a thank you to Karin and Floris for their time and hospitality for meeting the collegues of military performance psychology. Their patience in answering all the (same) questions about heart rate, HRV, freezing, realism in training, and so on, is greatly appreciated. Special thanks for giving Ashley the opportunity to

This is part 2 of the masterclass about stress exposure simulation training and my conversation with Victoria Brazil. Coincidence or not, today I spoke to colleague Ruben Verlangen with whom I have worked for years on stress simulation training in emergency medicine. Independently of each other, we appear to be in the process of “putting

What is the best way to improve officer’s hand gun performance for real world encounters? And what is the difference between traditional approaches and the Ecological Dynamics methodology incorporating a Constraints Led Approach? A great masterclass with Jeff Quail, CEO of Setcan, the worlds largest company for Reality Based Training products and co-author of a

Want to know all about designing, supervising and debriefing stress simulation training in acute care, police, defense or other professions? Then listen or watch this master class (part 1) with Dr. Victoria Brazil. She is an emergency medicine physician and medical educator on Australia’s Gold Coast. She is active in clinical practice and the teaching

Prachtig en leerzaam gesprek met Michiel van der Pols over zijn boek: Ik zweer trouw. Dit boek gaat over jezelf blijven in een uniform. Wat mij betreft niet alleen relevant voor militairen, agenten, maar ook voor dokters, enz. Ik wil een paar parels met je delen. Ik heb de gesproken tekst uit de podcast zo

Presteren onder druk voor de Anesthesioloog is soms ‘Hours of Boredom, minutes of stress, seconds of terror’. Welke rol speelt (trainen voor) presteren onder druk in de anesthesiologie? In gesprek met Stef Bouwman (Maastricht UMC). Wat zijn spannende situaties voor de anesthesioloog? Over best wel risicovolle interventies en acute prestatie druk. We hebben het over het

My personal experiences with mindfulness and body-mind practices have been nothing short of transformative. In my work, in law enforcement, in martial arts and especially personally. First as a great training for developing attention and focus, developing meta awareness (paying attention to my attention). Second for developing calmness and reducing to much reacitvity. Third, as

Content: blog, factsheet and Q&A with teh authors. Lets start! Do your students (nurses, doctors, police officers e.t.c.) know how, from whom, when and when not to retrieve effective feedback while on the job? Do we as first responder trainers/teachers think too easily about feedback and debrief? Me and my colleagues often talk about the

First, thanks to the researchers for their commitment to improving UOF training. The observational study (1) fills a literature gap by exam-ining performance (i.e., shoot/no-shoot errors) and stress physiology among 187 police officers during virtual (i.e., video-based) and live UOF scenarios as part of their agency’s annual requalification assessment. What where the results? While moderately