Call it a virtual hospital.
Erie’s Gannon University has opened a Patient Simulation Center to train 1,200 health profession majors in interdisciplinary settings. The 5,800-square-foot facility, designed in consultation with the Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation Education and Research at UPMC, includes an operating room, emergency room, labor and delivery room, and a digital imaging system among 14 training stations.
“What’s really unique about our center is that students are using it simultaneously for team learning,” says Carolynn Masters, dean of Gannon’s Morosky College of Health Professions and Sciences. “Nursing, respiratory care and physician assistant students learn together in scenarios.”
Masters says nearly one-quarter of the university’s students–2,824 undergraduates and 1,373 graduate–are enrolled in health profession majors, with a placement rate of 97 percent within three months of graduation.
Source: Carolynn Masters
Writer: Chris O’Toole