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Equipping and Staffing a Surgical Simulation Center

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The purpose of this chapter is to describe how to best equip and staff a surgical simulation center. The chapter addresses the differences between a wet lab, a dry lab, and human patient simulation training including the personnel, equipment, and learners for each. It also discusses resource management for efficiently running a surgical simulation center including utilization and data management, product evaluation and selection, and standard operating procedures. The chapter concludes with a focus on budgets and cost, tips and tricks, and the expected future of simulation.

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Abbreviations

ACP:

Advanced Care Provider

AV:

Audiovisual

CHSE:

Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator

CHSE-A:

Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator – Advanced

CHSOS:

Certified Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist

CVAT:

Central Venous Adjunct Trainer

IP:

Intellectual property

IPE:

Interprofessional education

SOP:

Standard operating procedure

SP:

Simulated participants

SSH:

Society for Simulation in Healthcare

VR:

Virtual reality

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    Dawn Swiderski & Ashley Yurco

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  1. Vice Chair of Education, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Dimitrios Stefanidis

  2. Vice Chair of Education, Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    James R. Korndorffer Jr.

  3. Executive Director WISH and CREST, Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Robert Sweet

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Swiderski, D., Yurco, A. (2019). Equipping and Staffing a Surgical Simulation Center. In: Stefanidis, D., Korndorffer Jr., J., Sweet, R. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Surgery and Surgical Subspecialties. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98276-2_5

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