Human Simulation Center

The Human Simulation Center consists of approximately 2600 square feet of space within the Learning Center. Notable features include two procedure rooms where students learn basic clinical skills and procedures and two simulation labs complete with control rooms behind one way windows and a medical gas tank room. If needed for a scenario, learners are able to scrub before entering the simulation room. This complex has allowed initiation of a competency based curriculum unique in the U.S. Students learn basic skills in the first two years such as phlebotomy, BLS, lumbar punctures, placing patients on monitors and using the data, and other skills detailed in the Science and Practice of Medicine web site. In the third year students begin a full curriculum on the full body simulator ( human patient simulator). Sessions include GI bleeding, arrythmias, ecclampsia, asthma and others. Data from sessions are being used to develop critical performance indicators with plans to develop valid evaluation tools for various types of simulation. Future plans include construction of a state of the art Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) OR and a wet lab with multiple towers in which students can learn MIS procedures.

HPSN 2005 Powerpoint presentation
"Theory and Practice of Developing an effective Human Patient Simulation curriculum"
Valeriy Kozmenko