Clinical Simulation Center

Clinical Simulation Center

Courses and Customized Services

Clinical Simulation Center
We offer highly-realistic simulation environment and have adapted medical simulation mannequins to different skills and scenarios based on the objective of the student curriculum.

Career-Altering
Many participants find their Sim Center training to be the single most valuable and meaningful learning experience of their careers. Many find our confidential environment to be comfortable and accessible. Participants expect their experience at Sim Center will help them perform better the next time they respond to a critical event. Medical students expect their experience will help them gain confidence to be able to perform procedures in their clinical rotation.

Comprehensive Approach
Sim Center courses address both the clinical and behavioral aspects of performance, focusing on crisis management and error prevention. Course topics include leadership, teamwork, effective communication, resource management and performance enhancement. Active learning in the real-world settings enhances participants’ retention and ability to apply target skills and behaviors.

Hands-on
A typical session is filled with experiences in procedural skills and simulated clinical situations, punctuated with debriefings. These debriefings with our skilled instructors are the core of the learning experience. They encourage an open and motivational discussion of performance and error, as well as instilling the principles of teamwork in participants’ approaches to healthcare.

Recent Activities
Clinical and College Foundations Simulation
Just-In Time Training
Pharmacology Simulation
Physician Assistant Simulation
“School for Medical Arts” Simulation Outreach

Clinical Facility Photographic/Film Setting
The flexible clinical facility at the CDU Sim Center may be used as a film studio for education, marketing, or creative purposes. We have the space and equipment to outfit the environments of operating rooms, intensive care units, emergency departments, and other clinical facilities. The Sim Center may be rented as a photographic or film setting for a period of time without interfering with patient care.

Consulting
The CDU Sim Center is happy to help any program address the learning gaps in curriculum by providing assistance on how to close those gaps by learning through simulation. Program faculty/directors will coordinate with the simulation faculty with regards to their objectives and the Sim Center will assist on how to target those objectives as well as assess and evaluate the outcome of the students learning through simulation.
The CDU Sim Center Model describes the cycle from student learning objectives, simulation center staff preparation, faculty training, the simulation event, to assessment of student learning. The cycle demonstrates to faculty members how utilizing simulation technology has a direct impact on how well their students achieve their learning objectives. 



Steps of Model to Achieve Learning Objectives

  • Faculty member develops Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) in line with Charles Drew University (CDU) and Program goals
  • Faculty member brings the Syllabus with SLOs and consults with Sim Center staff on elements of the “Simulation Blueprint”
  • Sim Center staff develops training and prepares the faculty training session for the event
  • Faculty and staff complete training
  • Simulation event takes place
  • The event is assessed for:
    • Process
    • Satisfaction
    • Achievement of Student Learning Objectives
  • Faculty member redesigns course and/or simulation event based on SLO evidence


“School for Medical Arts” Simulation Outreach

Pipeline Programs for Students Grades 6-12
Yes, non-clinicians actually get the chance to care for a patient and experience real-life issues first hand. It’s an eye-opener!
Sim Center faculty and facilitator work with the students before the simulation, discussing objectives and expectations, and again after the simulation, identifying important interactions, key learning, and actionable strategies.


Saturday Science

The Saturday Science Simulation provide a simulation outreach program for the grade 6-12 Saturday Science Academy students


College Bound Prep Plus

The CDU College Bound Prep Plus program is a pre-college enrichment program designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. High school students are introduced to the CDU Sim Cente to give them ideas on some pathways toward science and the medical fields that they can entertain in the future.

Staff using medical simulation to foster biomedical literacy among America’s youth.  This is an effort, and opportunity for the CDU College of Medicine to open the question about what the future of medical education would look like if it started, not with medical school, but TEN YEARS earlier in junior high school. It is a challenge to the medical school to help us understand what we should be teaching the kids now that is appropriate for what they can expect in medical education TEN YEARS from now.

Program Objectives:

  • provide a simulation outreach program for the Project Prep Plus high school students and elementary school students
  • strengthen the scientific foundation of the young generation through exposure on hands-on simulation training
  • establish connection between Project Prep Program and our College of Medicine