UT, ProMedica Announce Advanced Simulation Center
New Center to Offer Innovative Clinical Teaching, Research Space
(firmenpresse) - TOLEDO, OH -- (Marketwire) -- 10/25/11 -- ProMedica and The University of Toledo will commit to the development of a new Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center™(IISC) that will enable students and clinicians to use cutting edge technology to enable teams to learn, enhance outcomes, and improve patient safety in a simulated, low-risk environment.
Working with the University's economic development arm, Innovation Enterprises, UT and ProMedica have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish the IISC. The IISC will be housed in a new 3-story facility slated to open in 2012 next to UT's Center for Creative Education (CCE) Building on the Health Science Campus.
The Center will be among the first health science campuses in the nation to incorporate , a , and . This cutting edge technology can create unlimited virtual images that allow learners to travel through the heart of a human body or experience being inside of a human blood cell.
The IISC will be unique in that it will be comprised of three integrated simulation centers: a progressive anatomy and surgical skills center; and advanced simulation center; and the virtual immersive reality center. Typically, academic health centers only offer one type of simulation center.
"The IISC is a giant leap forward in our effort to set the national bar for clinical education and research," said Dr. Jeffrey Gold, UT chancellor and executive vice president for biosciences and health affairs.
"Looking forward, health care will increasingly rely on teams of clinicians from different disciplines working together to achieve the best patient outcomes. This center will enable learners to use the most advanced technology available to practice working in teams at the same time they are advancing their clinical skills," said Gold, who also serves as dean of UT's College of Medicine and Life Sciences.
Randy Oostra, president and CEO for ProMedica, said the partnership would help ensure better patient outcomes as doctors, nurses, therapists and all health care providers will be better prepared as they enter the workforce.
"These advanced simulation technologies make it possible to create virtual clinical environments for health professionals to practice individually and in teams using realistic human patient simulation models and immersive virtual three-dimensional environments," Oostra said. "The result will be reduced errors, increased safety, improved outcomes, enhanced efficiencies and an overall reduction of health care costs."
Additionally, Gold and Oostra said the IISC will serve as a venue where health care professionals will establish collaborative relationships to foster innovation in research and develop new and existing products and services that help improve the human condition, prevent diseases and enhance healing.
Dr. Pamela Boyers, senior advisor to the chancellor for the advancement of interprofessional education and executive director for simulation, has spent the last 18 months at UT building up the University's simulation technology and now has a fully operational pilot version of the IISC up and running where the learners, technicians and faculty will train in preparation for the grand opening of the UT/ProMedica joint venture in 2012.
"This virtual immersive reality technology enables students, practitioners and researchers to gain a better understanding of organs, diseases and treatment processes, including the potential of seeing real patient information such as ," Boyers said. "It will more effectively tie an understanding of human anatomy and physiology to patient care and offer unprecedented opportunities for innovation in learning, teaching, research and clinical practice."
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