Simulation Center

Simulation Center achieves five years of outstanding innovation

As it celebrates its fifth anniversary, the Sim Center continues to embrace new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to expand the scope and quality of its training programs for medical students, residents, health care providers and other learners. Watch video

As one of the largest state-of-the-art simulation facilities in the nation, UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Simulation Center creates real-life environments through cutting-edge technologies, such as virtual reality, for health care learners to develop into becoming effective, compassionate, and competent clinicians. Our enhanced simulation program integrates best-practice educational theories, high-fidelity environments, and innovative teaching modalities.

We provide learning opportunities to all disciplines and practitioner populations promoting UT Southwestern’s vision of the future of medicine, today.

UT Southwestern’s commitment to producing exceptionally trained physicians and to ensuring the highest standards of safety and care has entered an exciting new phase with the Simulation Center.

What is Simulation?

Simulation involves training health care providers for experiences that they’ll encounter in the real world – and helps expand the breadth and depth of their skills by offering a safe environment, where they have the opportunity to reach mastery.

Like the practice of medicine itself, the training of physicians and other health care professionals has evolved as new technologies and methods have appeared.

Today’s training often involves the use of high-tech simulators that closely replicate diseases and conditions that physicians encounter in the real world.

For patients, simulation training enhances the quality and safety of the care they receive as providers are better prepared and more proficient during their training years and as they enter practice.

For trainees, simulation provides experiential learning, in real real-world setting, where they can develop required skills, knowledge, and attitudes to become exceptional clinicians.

Through simulation, learners are exposed to multiple aspects of patient care, giving them an opportunity to practice clinical and behavioral skills, including:

  • Clinical reasoning and decision-making
  • Effective interprofessional teamwork
  • Medical crisis resolution
  • Proper communication
  • Safe and effective procedures

We offer fully integrated simulation-based learning for health care students, residents, and fellows in our graduate medical education program.

Registration is Open – 7th Annual Forum

The UT Southwestern Simulation Center will host its Charles Morris Ginsburg Simulation-Based Quality Improvement and Research Forum on May 8, 2024. The seventh annual event has been renamed to honor Charles Ginsburg, M.D., Professor and Vice Provost and Senior Associate Dean for Education, whose vision, dedication, and contributions left a tremendous legacy for the Simulation Center.

The immersive, daylong hybrid forum will unite individuals from diverse professional backgrounds, all sharing a keen interest in the fast-advancing world of simulation-based learning. This year's keynote speaker will be William C. McGaghie, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Education and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

There will be poster and oral presentations, and work that has been previously presented or published is welcome. Additionally, new ideas under development can seek mentorship via our emerging ideas section.

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Simulation Innovation Award (SIA) Nominee Submission

On behalf of Charles M. Ginsburg, M.D.

Calling all expert simulationists with an interest in research – apply now for the Simulation Innovation Award (SIA)

This is an award of $10,000 that will be immediately available for faculty members on the Clinician-Educator Track.

The goal of the award is to provide financial support for projects designed to facilitate the growth of state-of-the-art simulation research or curricular design. There will be five awards.

A department chair at UT Southwestern will nominate candidates for SIA support. The candidate must have a full-time faculty appointment with an interest in simulation-based scholarly activities and a sufficient time commitment from the department chair to complete the designated project.

The program requires nomination by the respective chair, a letter of commitment from the designated mentor, a written proposal, a budget, and a departmental commitment of matching funding. Outcome markers will include one or more of the following: presentation(s) at peer-reviewed meetings, publication(s) in peer-reviewed journals, receipt of competitive funding, a copyright, a patent, the incorporation of the product of the project into the UME or GME core curriculums and/or the creation of a successful scholarly collaboration with a colleague in the THR network. An additional year of funding may be available.

Applications will be accepted throughout the academic year and should be addressed to Lisa Martinez. Lisa.Martinez@UTSouthwestern.edu