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Services and Programs

The Center for Simulation and Research (CSR) offers cutting edge pediatric healthcare simulation across a multitude of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center facilities. We collaborate with facilitators and content experts from numerous divisions and subspecialties, as well as serve the community through outreach simulation programs.

Traditional Simulation

Through traditional simulation, the CSR achieves its mission of promoting quality patient care, enhancing patient safety, improving multidisciplinary health care communication/teamwork, and advancing the field of health care simulation through innovation and research.

Traditional simulation utilizes high fidelity mannequins to replicate patient scenarios and allow the healthcare team to practice standards of care in a physically and psychologically safe manner. We have over 40 mannequins that vary from premature infant, infant, child, and adult. We deliver simulations in a lab-based setting and in an in-situ setting (simulations staged in the patient care environment). If interested in setting up a traditional simulation session, please contact us.

Medical Simulation Fellowship Program

The Center for Simulation and Research has an elite fellowship program in which the fellow will work alongside the CSR's medical director and research director as well as all other staff in our multi-room simulation lab and in-situ simulations at our two freestanding pediatric academic hospitals. The fellowship is 12 months in length with 50% effort dedicated to simulation and 50% effort working clinically in the fellow’s unit of specialty.

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Outreach

To fulfill the mission of enhancing pediatric care and safety throughout the region, the CSR provides outreach simulation for EMS personnel, pediatric primary care offices, and general community hospitals. Each simulation training session is designed to meet the needs of the learners and promote the most up-to-date pediatric evidence-based care. This is accomplished through a focused debriefing after each simulation, centered on clinical and teamwork skills demonstrated by the learners. If interested in setting up an outreach simulation session, please contact us.

Digital Simulation

The Center for Simulation and Research is committed to constantly moving education forward through various innovative modalities. One such modality we offer is through digital simulation. Training is currently available leveraging virtual reality (VR) simulation with both head-mounted display and screen-based approaches. Content spans communication-focused training, clinical assessment training, and new space orientation. Simulations can support individual and group-based training in VR, with the team actively exploring the use of augmented reality and artificial intelligence to align training with evidence-based theories on how learning happens. For more information or to inquire about topics offered through this modality, please contact us.

PALS & ACLS Courses

PALS and ACLS Courses provided by the American Heart Association (AHA) are open to all healthcare providers and students in the community and within Cincinnati Children's. A hybrid learning model is utilized and includes an online module as well as skills testing.

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Procedural and Task Training

The CSR has a wide variety of low fidelity task trainers intended for learners to use for deliberate practice in mastery learning. Some examples of our trainers include: CPR mannequins, lumbar puncture trainers, IV insertion trainers, difficult airway trainers and suture trainers.

Space Testing

Simulation-based Clinical Systems Testing (SbCST) is a dedicated small team from the CSR that works with key stakeholders and interprofessional department staff to identify latent safety threats and mitigate errors in design, organization, and process to ensure patient safety in new care areas prior to opening.

Innovative Courses

The CSR prides itself creating novel course formats to improve learning that has subsequently had statistically significant research results on learning outcomes.

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