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In the same way flight simulators make real-life decisions easier for pilots and astronauts, mannequins, who look and act like real patients, enhance the real-world skills of all medical learners. Employing a technology first developed by the U.S. military, the WVU Center will help medical, nursing, pharmacy, and dentistry students improve their skills in the context of a broad interdisciplinary curriculum. Upon completion, it will showcase “patients” capable of more than 72,000 human reactions - everything from trembling and sweating, to bleeding or giving birth. The curriculum will be innovative, too.
When appropriate, WVU physicians will train along side nurses, pharmacists and other members of an integrated health care team. All technology will be web-based, much of it portable, allowing WVU to bring the benefits of clinical simulation to rural parts of the state or anywhere it’s needed; in addition, clinical lessons can be simulcast over MDTV to clinical campuses in Charleston and Martinsburg.
Similar to other schools that use simulation, the use of simulation at WVU will help improve the environment for learning, save time, reduce the cost of training, and improve patient care. A state-of-the art simulation center will operate in the heart of WVU Health Sciences clinical campus, providing additional opportunities for business and regional economic development.
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