One of the most fundamental roles of a healthcare simulation technology specialist is enabling the learning objectives of their clients. Sometimes the best way to accomplish this is not to include, purchase, or moulage more for the learner, but rather to discern when elimination or simplification is needed to best enable learning objectives. One way [...]

As technology in the field of healthcare simulation progresses, so do the professionals that develop, build, operate, and troubleshoot this clinical simulation technology. Moreover, information sharing facilitated by groups like the Gathering of Healthcare Simulation Technology Specialists (SimGHOSTS), Laerdal’s Simulation User Network (SUN), and the plethora of resources provided by the Society for Simulation in [...]

Continued education is paramount to the success of professionals in any field, especially those working in healthcare simulation where the stakes are high. A simulationist must constantly seek to develop themselves, their team, and their clinical simulation program if they are to fulfill their duties in enabling healthcare professionals to safely save and sustain life. [...]

Since the development of more affordable patient simulators like the SimMan in the mid-90s, clinical simulation has successfully expanded across numerous disciplines and professions in healthcare. In 1999, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), a graduate nursing school and military medical school, established the first medical simulation center specifically targeting medical education [...]