Creating an environment that fosters innovation and places emphasis on continuous learning benefits everyone: staff, patients and their families. That's why more than $2.5 million has been invested in creating a 12,000-square-foot Center for Simulation, Education and Research at Henry Ford Hospital.
The "Sim Center" as it is known is a state-of-the-art center and the largest facility of its type in Michigan. The Center offers procedural simulation technologies using computerized mannequins and other mechanical devices. It also is a venue for advancing education and assessing the competencies of residents, physicians and other heath care workers in the areas of inter-professional team communications, patient safety and doctor-patient communication skills.
Cutting-edge educational resources are used in the center. Students go in to the center and actually "simulate" live patient procedures, including surgeries and other complex medical procedures. Using medical mannequins, students are able to practice their skills - much like a pilot or astronaut trains in a flight simulator.
The center houses fully-equipped replicas of an intensive care unit, emergency room, patient rooms and two operating rooms - one devoted to advancing skills on the surgical robot.
Each room is designed to enable physicians, nurses and various health care professionals to enhance critical team skills in these environments, perfect new care protocols and flawlessly handle code situations.
By training on these medical simulation machines and in these simulated patient and operating rooms, physicians and other health care professionals will have even greater expertise and experience for real-life situations.
View from the hall with the classroom on the left looking toward the Minimally Invasive Lab
View from the hall with the classroom on the right looking toward the front lobby
