RMD - 731 Simulation in Health Care

This two- or four-week elective is designed in order to introduce the student to this modality of teaching. Students have the opportunity to understand the different learners in the hospital - nurses, medical students, residents, faculty physicians, etc. and how simulation may help with not only their own objectives, but also in interprofessional and interdisciplinary communication and teamwork. They will have the opportunity to participate, perform and assist in the use of medical simulation at both RUSH and Cook County Hospital Simulation Labs. During the medical simulation labs, the student will help train physicians, nurses and medical students in the areas, including but not limited to ACLS, PALS, BLS, ATLS, resuscitative efforts, common pathological presentations and professional communication. They will learn applied methods of debriefing and assessment. This will serve as a beginning course on learning how to teach with simulation. Students are expected to develop two (for the two-week elective) or three (for the four-week elective) simulation cases. This project should function to help with a challenge in the hospital or a group of learners for the sake of quality assurance and/or patient safety. This may include a simulation case or a series of cases designed as a mini-curriculum for a set of learners. As a final project evaluation - the student will run the course director through the simulation(s) and use proper debriefing techniques after the case has finished. Offered: fall, spring and summer. Retake Counts for Credit: No. Pass/No Pass Grading Allowed: No. Credit(s): 2-4