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Gulf Region publication Trade Arabia details plans to develop a medical simulation center in the new home of the Harvard Medical School Dubai Center Institute for Postgraduate Education & Research. HMSDC, launched in 2004, is the focal point of efforts to develop high-quality education infrastructure and training in the Gulf Region. Since its inception, its Continuing Medical Education programs have been attended by thousands of physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals in the region.

The medical simulation center will be the first in Dubai. Occupying over 20,000 square feet in the new HMSDC facility, it will provide postgraduate medical trainees and other health care professionals the opportunity to undergo simulation-based training in rooms designed to replicate operating theaters, intensive care units, emergency rooms, and inpatient ward rooms. Dr. Robert L. Thurer, Chief Academic Officer at HMSDC, said the simulation center would help “support Dubai Healthcare City in its efforts to become the regional center of excellence in health care informed by education and research.”