The University of Chicago Simulation Center is a central feature of the UC
Center for Simulation and Safety in Healthcare. Based in a newly renovated,
dedicated facility on campus in Chicago’s famous Hyde Park neighborhood,
the center consists of administrative offices, a large multimedia
immersive simulation room, and an adjacent conference and observation
room. The
Access Grid advanced digital multimedia system supports debriefing, control, research and other facility needs in addition to Internet-2 based telecollaboration and learning.
Simulation-based research and training in health care has been evolving and expanding rapidly since the early 1990s. Fueled in part by their success in other high-risk, safety-critical industries such as aviation, petrochemical processing, and nuclear power, simulation today constitutes an integral component of many contemporary safety programs. Simulation-based approaches uncouple training risks from actual operations, facilitate behavior enhancement through video feedback, and help personnel in high-reliability organizations maintain the skills necessary to effectively deal with risk and complexity. We also believe that immersive and other forms of simulation can build safety culture and impact other key organizational-level factors that strengthen resilience to failure and ensure desired outcomes.
The UC Simulation Center was created with funding from the
U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Advanced Biomedical Tele-Collaboration Testbed, and support from the University of Chicago Hospitals and the Biological Sciences Division,
and the
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care. The UC Simulation Center currently utilizes advanced high-fidelity Human Patient Simulators and the
Access Grid tele-collaboration technology to study simulated medical events and scenarios in an immersive environment. The facility design supports interdisciplinary, multi-patient
simulations intended to facilitate investigation of and training for systems-level issues.
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