When hollywood inspires medicine: New concepts in the design and architecture of medical simulation facilities to support inter-professional healthcare education and training

Allan J. Hamilton, Marissa Lovett, David Biffar, Jerzy Rozenblit, Jonathan Kanda, Ronald Weinstein

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Abstract

The changing landscape of healthcare education, delivery, and technology is placing new demands for significant inter-disciplinary and inter-professional training in medical simulation. New architectural concepts and building designs must ensure that large-scale healthcare simulation facilities offer customized training opportunities for nursing, medicine, public health, and pharmacy while allowing for maximal flexibility and adaptation across nearly fifty different user groups and stake holders. A novel concept of a larger, configurable “stage” design, more akin to a Hollywood production studio, with in-patient and outpatient suites seen as temporary or “standing” sets was created. The stage, called a “Sim Deck,” can be easily dismantled while providing ample square footage for mass casualty scenarios. The facility required significant technological support to provide remote simulation training via existing and future telemedical technologies as well as remaining nimble enough to incorporate technologies in augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and large-scale learner management systems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSimulation Series
PublisherThe Society for Modeling and Simulation International
Edition5
ISBN (Electronic)9781510892521, 9781510892538, 9781510892545, 9781510892552, 9781510892569
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event2019 Modeling and Simulation in Medicine, MSM 2019, Part of the 2019 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference, SpringSim 2019 - Tucson, United States
Duration: Apr 29 2019May 2 2019

Publication series

NameSimulation Series
Number5
Volume51
ISSN (Print)0735-9276

Conference

Conference2019 Modeling and Simulation in Medicine, MSM 2019, Part of the 2019 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference, SpringSim 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityTucson
Period4/29/195/2/19

Keywords

  • Architecture
  • Healthcare
  • Informational technologies
  • Inter-professional
  • Medical simulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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