Janice C. Palaganas

Janice C. Palaganas is a Professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, where she specializes in healthcare simulation, medical education, and nursing. Her research focuses on simulation methodology, debriefing and feedback standards, and the integration of artificial intelligence and large language models into healthcare training. Her recent work includes developing the Advocacy-Inquiry Rubric (AIR) for debriefing skills, examining procedural skills decay in emergency medicine, and comparing AI-driven emotion recognition with human performance. She has published extensively on prompt design for healthcare simulationists and led international surveys on AI adoption in simulation. Her contributions bridge critical care education, health technology, and modeling and simulation, advancing evidence-based practices in health sciences education.