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In 2011, the UAB provost and UAB Medicine CEO convened a university-wide Interprofessional Education and Simulation task force to make recommendations for addressing simulation opportunities at UAB. In January 2012, the deans of the UAB health professions schools, together with the university provost and the UAB Medicine CEO, established a UAB Office for Interprofessional Simulation for Innovative Clinical Practice (OIPS). In 2014, with a support team comprised of the deans of the schools of Medicine and Nursing, the provost and the UAB Medicine CEO, the office and clinical simulation program was formalized. UAB Clinical Simulation also was established at this time, and Marjorie Lee White, MD, MPPM, MA, was appointed director of OIPS and vice president for clinical simulation.
Over the years, the UAB Clinical Simulation curricula grew, as did facility and staff resources. In 2015, the office added space on the 2nd floor of Jefferson Tower that included offices and training spaces that became the Jefferson Tower Procedural Skills Lab, a dedicated space for learners to get hands-on clinical skills training. As the demand for simulation grew across campus and UAB Medicine, OIPS and UAB Clinical Simulation became separate entities in 2022. We now have a diverse team working to deliver exceptional simulation experiences for UAB Medicine.
To ensure the highest quality simulation for all who care for patients at UAB Medicine and within the UAB Health System.
Dramatically improve patient outcomes at UAB Medicine and throughout the state of Alabama.
- Interprofessionalism: We value interprofessionalism and seek to find new ways to foster it wherever possible. We believe the best way to train health-care professionals is in an authentic environment where all appropriate professions are present.
- Knowledge into Practice: We believe in using evidence-based educational and training practices to improve the performance of all health-care professionals.
- Innovation: We value innovation and seek to be creative in our deployment of simulation throughout the enterprise and to partner with others to improve.
- Patient Safety: We use simulation as a test of our health-care system, deploying it to explore and discover opportunities for improving care. We believe in improving patient safety by ensuring health-care professionals practice procedures in sim or in situ prior to performing on patients and can practice in the teams in which they deliver care.
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