The simulation lab on the PSHMC campus enables medical staff and students to experience lifelike medical situations through use of robotic manikins.

The lab is a large space that includes a room for task trainers, an ICU bay and OR in addition to classroom space.

GOALS:

• Provide collaborative, team-based training for in-house code teams
• Practice managing emergent and life-threatening conditions in a safe, controlled learning environment
• Use sophisticated, high-tech human patient simulators to provide the learner with a more realistic experience
• Manikins include infants, children, pregnant moms and life-like adults
• Training scenarios can be pre-programmed into the manikins and customized to the level of the learner and repeated as needed for a consistent, quality educational experience
• High-risk procedures can be practiced repeatedly using task trainers (LP model, thorax for thoracentesis, Central line manikin)

As part of a comprehensive board review process, starting in their R2 year, senior residents receive access to MKSAP and are assigned an exam to complete for each rotation.