UPMC’s Medical Director of Patient Safety and Director of the WISER Simulation Center, Dr. Paul E. Phrampus MD, recently shared his AHRQ article “Building a Safety Program in a Vast Health Care Network”, which highlights the unique needs of patient safety, workforce training, and medical simulation utilization when considering vast institutional healthcare networks. Below we [...]

In 2019, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)’s Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER) Center celebrates its 25th year of improving healthcare through innovative education! A medical simulation pioneer for a quarter of a century, WISER is an internationally renowned simulation center that focuses on healthcare education, improving patient safety, and [...]

Casually returning from the holidays, today HealthySim is showcasing some of the latest healthcare simulation videos from youtube, highlighting the latest simulation center launches, product updates, tutorial guides, conference sessions, recorded webinars and more. Ease back into your medical simulation center with these latest videos! Do you have a recently posted simulation video to share? [...]

Those looking to improve their healthcare simulation instructional skills should strongly consider in-person training activities, as the nuances of debriefing and instructional design in the field are extremely unique. Designed and facilitated by internationally renowned experts in simulation and faculty development, the training courses available from WISER at the University of Pittsburgh and The Gordon [...]