Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation
A state-of-the-art center promoting the acquisition of basic and advanced clinical skills that are essential for medical students and residents.
Mission
The mission of the Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation is to provide excellent patient care through innovative medical education, assessment, research, systems integration and outreach. Our state-of-the-art center strives to provide members of Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) and Yale School of Medicine (YSM) communities with an ideal learning environment that fosters self-reflection, mutual respect and an integrated, interdisciplinary team spirit in order to optimize healthcare delivery and engender a culture committed to patient safety.
The Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation promotes the acquisition of basic and advanced clinical skills that are essential for healthcare providers to master for both supervised and independent practice. It also offers a variety of simulation-based systems analysis services in order to apply simulation strategies to new facility design and testing, perform environmental and workflow analysis, and integrate new systems into an already complex healthcare system. The simulation center contributes to YNHHS/YSM’s research mission by identifying more effective educational methods and evaluation tools as well as using simulation technology to answer the most pressing issues in healthcare.
The Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation is also committed to providing educational research opportunities to all members of the Yale healthcare community.
Education & Research
The Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation (YCHS) is a safe space for learning for medical students, physician associate students, and residents. Medical students gain hands-on experience and participate in simulations throughout their medical school career.
All members of the YSM and YNHHS medical community have access to the simulation lab for research purposes.
Simulated Participants
YSM’s Simulated Participant (SP) Program provides learners with a safe space in which to acquire and practice their skills. The SP Program has expertise in designing and implementing training scenarios as well as case and character development to meet your learning objectives and program goals.
We employ a diverse population of SPs to ensure learners receive training that is representative of the wide range of people they will interact with in practice.
Our Services & Facilities
Our simulation-based services including education and training, evaluation and assessment, facility design and testing, environmental and workflow analysis, systems integration, device testing, and educational research opportunities.
Our state-of-the-art center promotes the acquisition of basic and advanced clinical skills that are essential for trainees and health professionals to master.
SSIH Accreditation
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YCHS is located at 728 and 730 Howard Avenue in New Haven, CT. YCHS is fully accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare in all five categories: education, assessment, research, fellowship and systems integration.
Students are rarely, if ever, given the opportunity to lead a team, be accountable for every decision made in managing a patient, and learn what it feels like to make a mistake you never want to happen again.
Students are rarely, if ever, given the opportunity to lead a team, be accountable for every decision made in managing a patient, and learn what it feels like to make a mistake you never want to happen again.
Opportunities
- Science Education PartnershipThis award builds upon the experience of the YCHS faculty and staff in simulation training to promote informal STEM learning for high school students in New Haven.
- Healthcare Simulation FellowshipThis is a one-year fellowship offered to a qualified Emergency Medicine residency graduate.
- Virtual Reality TrainingState of the Art Virtual Reality (VR) training course for instructors.
- Medical Software & Medical AIA certificate program about AI, regulations, and global connections presented by Yale Biomedical Informatics & Data Science designed to equip professionals with essential knowledge and skills about how technologies are revolutionizing the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.