Systems sim sharpens emergency skills at Gardendale clinic
When UAB Gardendale Primary and Specialty Care prepared to open its Echo Lab and Stress Test services, clinic leadership knew they had a unique resource—and an equally unique challenge.
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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.
‘Sim-terns’ turn experience into action
For recent UAB graduates Taigan White and Amber Rogers, their time with UAB Clinical Simulation wasn’t just a job—it was a launchpad.
iSim: Your Feedback in Action
At UAB Clinical Simulation, we believe the best simulations are shaped by the people who use them. That’s why we’re excited to announce that our entire virtual simulation fleet has undergone a comprehensive makeover—driven directly by user feedback.
HeartCode Complete: Confidence-Building Through Practice & Partnership
Every second counts in a cardiac emergency—which is why practice and preparation matter. HeartCode® Complete helps providers and staff build life-saving confidence through repeated, hands-on practice.
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.
iSim: Patient Experience Communication
Communication plays a powerful role in shaping the patient experience—and this month’s featured module helps you sharpen that skill from multiple perspectives.
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.
It’s Friday Night at the ER!
The week might be over, but the simulation is just beginning. Friday Night at the ER, a tabletop simulation experience from Breakthrough Learning, challenges learners with managing a hospital during a simulated 24-hour period. The experience is made available to health-care teams through UAB Clinical Simulation, one of which is UAB Medicine’s Center for Patient Flow (CPF). “It allows our unit-based Read more…
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.