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UAB Rehabilitation Pavilion takes first steps with systems simulation

The road to recovery starts with practice, and at the new UAB Rehabilitation Pavilion, that practice began with simulation. 

By Frank Ruggiero, 3 daysSeptember 11, 2025 ago
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Sim collaboration puts high reliability leadership to the test

High reliability leadership skills call for highly reliable training methods.  

UAB Clinical Simulation recently provided a location for UAB’s Center for Healthcare Management, the School of Health Professions (SHP) and Press Ganey to deliver an immersive simulation experience for the center’s newly launched High Reliability Certificate program.

By Frank Ruggiero, 4 daysSeptember 11, 2025 ago
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Clin Sim offers new VR equipment loan program

Virtual learning is more than a tool; it’s a reality. And a new VR equipment loan program from UAB Clinical Simulation will allow learners to sim virtually anywhere. 

By Frank Ruggiero, 4 daysSeptember 11, 2025 ago
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Sim First When Seconds Count: Simulations help prepare code teams

Each year, UAB Clinical Simulation hosts interprofessional Code Blue simulations to sharpen teamwork, communication and life-saving skills. This summer, internal medicine residents, registered nurses and respiratory therapists stepped into a simulated hospital environment to practice ACLS in real time. 

By Frank Ruggiero, 1 monthAugust 14, 2025 ago
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Standardized, but never routine: SPs bring human factor to sim

For Bart and Debra Reisman, volunteering as standardized patients isn’t about pretending to be sick—it’s about helping learners prepare for the real-world challenges they’ll face in health care.

By Frank Ruggiero, 4 monthsMay 14, 2025 ago
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OB residents take on high-stakes scenarios in simulation

While OB residents at UAB Medicine are no strangers to busy shifts and complex cases, UAB Clinical Simulation’s OB Resident Sim offers a different kind of challenge.

By Frank Ruggiero, 5 months ago

Medical Nursing Orientation sim allows new nursing team members to acclimate

In collaboration with UAB Clinical Simulation, the UAB Medical Division Orientation Committee developed an immersive Medical Nursing Orientation simulation to acclimate new nursing staff to UAB Medicine. 

By Frank Ruggiero, 6 monthsMarch 13, 2025 ago
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Simulating the System, Optimizing the Outcome

Systems simulation at UAB Medicine is a highly specialized area of simulation in which the focus of work is targeted toward spatial simulations, process simulations and systems testing.

By Frank Ruggiero, 6 monthsMarch 13, 2025 ago
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Clin Sim partners with Outpatient Rehab for leadership simulation

In collaboration with UAB Clinical Simulation, Jamie Wade, director of UAB Spain Rehabilitation Center’s Outpatient Rehabilitation Services and Community Partnerships, recently facilitated a series of pilot simulations focusing on rehabilitation leadership.

By Frank Ruggiero, 7 monthsFebruary 12, 2025 ago
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Code Skills Out of Lab sessions bring sim lab to the learners

In terms of helping improve patient safety, UAB Clinical Simulation delivers. Clinical Simulation’s Code Skills Out of Lab program effectively brings the sim lab to the learners.

By Frank Ruggiero, 8 monthsJanuary 8, 2025 ago

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