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Travis AFB, CA 94535
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The DGMC Simulation Center (SimCenter) is at the forefront of the Air Force Surgeon General's focus on enhancing patient safety, residency training and readiness preparation through using high fidelity patient simulation technology. Using programmable simulators that act like nearly any adult or pediatric patient, the SimCenter offers medical professionals the opportunity to practice and hone their clinical judgment skills, communication skills and clinical procedure techniques in a "virtual hospital" environment. The simulators speak, breathe, have a heartbeat, have pulses, bleed and respond to medications.
The SimCenter reinforces Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) leadership and communication training by incorporating use of TeamSTEPPS tools within critical care scenarios. Over 60 percent of serious medical errors have a root cause in communication failure; DGMC's SimCenter integrates team communication and interaction skills with medical and surgical simulation scenarios. It received the Department of Defense Patient Safety Award in February 2007.
The SimCenter is actively engaged in Graduate Medical Education and research. GME is a big part of day to day SimCenter Activity. Faculty train Residents by working through actual clinical scenarios and practicing procedural skills in simulated Intensive care/Emergency Medicine settings.
The 60th Medical Group has instituted regular hospital-wide Simulation Center training at David Grant Medical Center according to the TeamSTEPPS model. Doctors, nurses, therapists and technicians from each inpatient unit practice simulator-based patient scenarios as a team. Resident Physicians benefit from a novel graduate medical curriculum combining simulation-based scenarios with the TeamSTEPPS concept. The 60th Medical Group Simulation Center is unique within the DoD by focusing training on both clinical skills and multidisciplinary team function.
In addition to live-fire courses like Tactical Combat Casualty Care, the 60th Medical Group Simulation Center supports Readiness training for Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATT), supports Advanced Trauma Life Support courses and simulates combat trauma medical care practiced in an austere environment.
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