Are you looking to advance your nursing career through simulation? Well good news everyone, UPMC has you covered with a 1.5 day symposium this June 1st and 2nd at the WISER Center in Pittsburgh, PA. The event is taking place in conjunction with the 16th Annual Safar Symposium starting May 31st, a two-day multi-departmental research conference on [...]

Are you seeking specialized hands-on training workshops in healthcare simulation related practices but don’t know what the options are? Looking for training in debriefing, designing and running a simulation center, surgical simulation, technical courses or more? Fear not Simulation Champions for HealthySim has you covered with these workshops around the globe. Have one we missed, [...]

Dr. Paul Phrampus, Medical Director for Patient Safety at UPMC and Director of their WISER Center, provided us with two recent videos tips covering gaining faculty support and increasing learner engagement for simulation. The WISER team regularly puts out these simulation in healthcare tutorial videos to help your program start and grow — all of which [...]

Assessment, Debriefing, Comprehensive, and Development are just a few words that describe WISER’s “Improving Simulation Instructional Methods” (iSIM) course.

iSIM is a three (3)-day immersive program designed to cover the fundamental skills for the creation and delivery of high quality simulation-based healthcare education through a variety of techniques and technologies while emphasizing hands-on learning through active [...]