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New home of HMSDC will include region's first medical simulation center
The Harvard Medical School Dubai Center (HMSDC) Institute for Postgraduate Education & Research has announced plans to establish the Gulf Region’s first medical simulation center. The center will be housed in the new HMSDC facility being constructed as part of the academic campus that also includes Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC) and the University Hospital.
Dr. Robert Thurer, Chief Academic Officer of HMSDC, said that the simulation center is another component “that will support DHCC in its efforts to become the regional center for excellence in health care informed by education and research.”
The medical simulation center will occupy 20,461 square feet at HMSDC, with about 6,000 square feet designated for training in emergency medicine. Postgraduate medical trainees and other health care professionals will have the opportunity to learn and practice in scenario rooms designed to replicate operating rooms, intensive care units, emergency rooms, and ward rooms. The curriculum in the center will employ a variety of simulators and simulation-based training methods, including human patient simulators, task trainers, computer-assisted/virtual reality trainers, and standardized patients. A skills laboratory will allow trainees to practice endoscopies and a number of other minimally invasive procedures.
Dr. Muhadditha Al Hashimi, Chief Executive Officer of DHCC, said, “This initiative is part of DHCC’s intention to stay ahead of the curve in health care education and provide global-standard training to the academic medical community.”
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