Andrew Petrosoniak
MD MSc (Med Ed)
Biography
Dr. Petrosoniak is an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is an Education Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute and the Translational Simulation and Clinical Integration Lead with the Simulation Program at Unity Health Toronto. He has completed a Master of Science in medical education where he focused on the use of in situ simulation (practice in the actual workplace) in procedural skill acquisition.
Dr. Petrosoniak’s academic work focuses on using simulation to help design clinical infrastructure and improve patient safety. Much of his work utilizes in-situ simulation directly observe how teams function within their clinical environment, including usability testing and the identification of personnel- and systems-based safety threats within acute care medicine. His other area of research involves understanding how rare, life-saving procedures can be best taught and practiced using simulation. He is the principal investigator of the TRUST study (Trauma Resuscitation Using in Situ simulation for Team Training) that includes a partnership with human factors experts to evaluate systems and processes during high-stakes trauma simulations.
Dr. Petrosoniak is the Co-Director of the Annual Critical Care Skills Course for the FRCP Emergency Medicine residents designed to enhance skill acquisition for rarely performed and high-stakes technical skills. He regularly lectures and instructs simulation sessions for the EM residency program.
He is an invited speaker both nationally and internationally on the topics of trauma, simulation, procedural skill acquisition and transfusion and founding partner of Advanced Performance.
Expertise
Trauma; translational simulation; transfusion; patient safety
Contact Information
@petrosoniak
Supervision
Dr. Petrosoniak supervises a range of trainees, including medical students and residents.
Publications
Are we talking about practice? A randomized study comparing simulation-based deliberate practice and mastery learning to self-guided practice. Petrosoniak A, Sherbino J, Beardsley T, Bonz J, Gray S, Hall AK, Hicks C, Kim J, Mastoras G, McGowan M, Owen J, Wong AH, Monteiro S. CJEM. 2023 Aug;25(8):667-675.
Simulation-based medical education in transfusion medicine: Current state and future applications. Rotin LE, Pavenski K, Petrosoniak A. Transfus Apher Sci. 2023 Feb;62(1):103628.
Just the facts: massive hemorrhage protocol. Petrosoniak A, Li W, Hicks C.CJEM. 2023 Feb;25(2):115-117.
To view more of Dr. Petrosoniak’s publications visit ResearchGate.