New Medical Training Center in Las Vegas
State and local government officials, as well as, University of Nevada School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Nursing and Nevada State College School of Nursing faculty and students, celebrated the official grand opening of the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas on Dec. 2.
The grand opening featured tours for media and guests, presentations, and simulations that replicated obstetrical, pediatric, surgical and emergency medical scenarios throughout the day. The 31,000-square-foot center offers the latest in health care training with five high-fidelity simulation labs, three clinical skills labs, a surgical simulation suite, 12 standardized patient rooms and four multi-purpose classrooms. The facility is fully integrated by an audio and video system. The simulation rooms are equipped with specialized high-tech mannequins that allow students to take vital signs and make assessments while practicing their communication skills, team management, task performance and decision making. Faculty can monitor performance through a two-way mirror and dynamically alter patient physiology, dialogue and behavior in real time. Scenarios are streamed to the rest of the class in real time in debriefing rooms and can be digitally recorded for playback and discussion. The surgical skills labs, utilized by School of Medicine general surgery residents, feature a wide-range of training modules including surgical knot-tying to procedures such as a cholecystectomy.
The $15.75 million center is shared between the University of Nevada School of Medicine and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Nevada State College nursing schools. The first students began training at the center on August 2009. As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school's clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future.