Train for the Moments You Can’t Slow Down
Join our faculty of nationally recognized airway experts and simulation leaders for a one-of-a-kind HALO pop-up event in the heart of New York City in our new training studio. Spend a full day in a purpose‑built, immersive environment dialing in the skills and mental models that matter most when physiology is failing and time is tight. Join just for the training or come and learn how to take what you learned back to your institution by recreating the identical pop-up learning style we use at PAC.
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Course Description
HALO Mindset & Procedure is an airway training course designed to prepare clinicians for high-acuity, low-occurrence events. It is part of our fully integrated ecosystem to provide both digital and hands-on training for HALO procedures.
The program integrates cognitive decision-making under pressure with structured, hands-on procedural rehearsal, helping participants recognize threats early, make clear threshold decisions, and execute critical interventions with confidence.
- Topic: HALO Mindset & Procedure Training
- Creators: Jonathan St. George, MD, Oscar Mitchel,l MD, Jim DuCanto, Brian Kaufman, MD.
- Includes: Online + Hands-On Curriculum
- CME & Certificate available: Yes
Built for real clinical environments, HALO emphasizes durable skills that translate directly to patient care.
A Note From the Creators
This program teaches real-world skills within a multimedia narrative framework, drawing on history, medicine, art, science, evidence-based research, simulation, and creative design, and on the experience of those who trained for irreversibility long before us.
While elements of this learning space are intentionally fictional, the cognitive frameworks, procedural skills, and hard-earned lessons are not. This is education design in the service of clinical performance when conditions are at their most challenging.
The effort to improve care in the moments that matter most through better learning is ongoing. If you are reading this, you are part of the build.
Overview
The term HALO began as a way to name a specific problem: rare, high-stakes procedures that matter most when there’s no time to hesitate. But procedures are only part of the story.
What actually determines outcomes in these moments is whether clinicians recognize what’s unfolding, whether their thinking holds under pressure, and whether they act before delay quietly becomes the most dangerous choice in the room.
This program extends HALO beyond procedures alone and draws on the past to position it for the future. It seamlessly integrates the cognitive skills, recognition patterns, and practice structures that support performance when errors are irreversible and time is not neutral.
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The HALO Program Legacy
Where did the HALO training program begin? To understand where we’re going, you need to know where we’ve been. The HALO program is a story like no other.
HALO includes three components that always move together:
1. Development of the HALO Mindset
It starts with developing a HALO mindset. One that differs from how we handle routine stress. This is about how clinicians preserve thinking under compression, recognize threats early, and commit to action when waiting feels safer but isn’t.
2. Skills to Meet HALO Moments
Moments connect thinking to action. Miss the threshold, and every decision that follows is late. Most failures don’t begin with a bad decision; they begin with misreading the moment. This is about learning to read the moment.
3. HALO Practice
Because rare events can’t be learned on the job, HALO practice is designed to be deliberate, repeatable, and available before it’s needed, through high-fidelity simulation-based resources.
This resource exists to make those moments recognizable, navigable, and survivable.
HALO isn’t about heroics. It’s about reducing surprises and building familiarity with critical concepts and skills in moments when the stakes are highest.
We’re Just Getting Started!
This page is actively evolving. Over the coming months, we’ll be adding new HALO resources as they’re built, tested, and deployed.
What’s coming next includes:
- Dates for upcoming online and in-person HALO events
- Podcasts and conversations with clinicians working at the edge of practice
- Instructional videos and short-form teaching pieces
- Just-in-time clinical resources
- Enhanced PACscape infographic posters
- Guided audio for cognitive rehearsal and visualization practice
This is a living system, not a static library. New tools will appear as the curriculum grows. Bookmark this page, subscribe to the website.
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