的 DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health includes one of the largest interprofessional, comprehensive, state-of-the-art simulation 密歇根州的中心. 加上28375平方英尺 simulation space in DCIH, Grand Valley now has a total of more than 67,800 square feet of simulation space on its Health Campus.

的 center’s advanced teaching modalities include an electronic 3D anatomy modeling and imaging table, a large collection of human plastinated specimens, high-fidelity patient simulators and several 虚拟现实房间.

凯蒂分支, director of Simulation, discusses the building's 沉浸式技术及其前瞻性设计.

How was the new and expanded simulation space designed to be interprofessional?

Some spaces were intentionally designed to meet the core objectives for specific academic programs, while other spaces were designed to be inclusive and flexible for current and future academic programming. 的 technology within the simulation space is cutting-edge and 特别选择与未来相关的. 

We are looking at expanding our traditional scope in simulation to enhance student clinical skill development, learning comprehension and 创新. For example, we are partnering with the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing and the applied Medical Device Institute (aMDI) to provide health-related students the opportunity to engage with engineering students in medical product development projects. 

This is the first time GVSU has had an Anatomage Table, also 叫做虚拟解剖表. 它是如何工作的?? 

桌子上有 an electronic touch screen so students can examine and 剖析不同的体型、性别和种族. 桌子上有 learning modules including normal anatomy of both humans and animals, cellular images, and a long list of pathological conditions. 学生 can electronically dissect the human body, layer by layer from the skin down to the bone or look at and manipulate the heart in motion. It also allows for real CT or MRI images to be uploaded for teaching purposes. 

学生 must be excited to learn in the new virtual rooms. 

我们可以 project a hospital setting and have people working in the background, getting crash carts ready, stocking supplies, discussing 和图表. 可能是路边的事故现场 where students are caring for victims and traffic is zooming by. We can also transform those spaces into home health environments where normal activity is occurring, such as the sound of a TV, the doorbell 铃声或狗叫声. 

Our students are really enjoying this immersive technology. 我们可以 program any environment you can find on Google Earth or we can take our own 360-degree images and sounds and program them so students can be immersed and interact in environments that they may actually 有专业实践经验. 

的 walls in the virtual rooms are interactive so we can program 类似于地图上的图标. 学生可以点击图标来 获取诸如x光或患者实验室结果之类的信息. 真正的 unique feature of this technology is that it doesn’t require a headset to be able to see or interact with the imagery, allowing several 学生们在一个虚拟的房间里进行模拟.

你能描述一下新的手术室实验室吗? 塑化解剖实验室和病房?

的 new OR lab will primarily be used in our physician assistant studies and nursing programs to teach gowning and gloving, as well as 手术中的无菌技术. 

的 plastinated anatomy lab on the Health Campus is quite unique. 塑化的人体标本可以无限期保存. 塑化是 scientific process invented for preserving human tissue, organs and whole bodies by removing water and fat from the tissues and replacing them with certain polymers and resins, thus preventing decay. 

Our pediatric and adult standardized patient program is the most 本州的强大计划. 我们雇佣5周大的社区成员 through adulthood to serve as “mock” patients for GVSU students to 进行身体和认知评估. 我们有200多个 儿童和成人标准化患者在我们的游泳池. 之前 opening of DCIH, we had eight standardized patient exam rooms and we 现在有24个. 这次扩建将使我们能够容纳 increasing demand for standardized patient events and foster collaboration among several health care disciplines at a time. 

高保真病人模拟器可以做一些漂亮的 remarkable things to help students learn and practice their skills. 

是的. Being a centralized service at the university allows for all equipment, including the high-fidelity patient simulators, to be utilized by any health-related academic program on campus. 的 high-fidelity patient simulators or mannequins can be programmed and 被操纵来反映人类的身体特征. 它们可以是 programmed to talk, display a range of medical conditions, recognize 服药甚至分娩.

Describe the new state-of-the-art recording system throughout 模拟中心. 

我们几乎所有的地方都安装了摄像头. 我们录制和直播 video for faculty to watch in real time to make annotations right into the student videos to note what students have done well and what they 可能需要做什么. 学生可以访问他们录制的视频 毕业后自我评价. 录音也帮助我们检查我们的 simulations and make adjustments to enhance or improve the students’ 在模拟中心的学习经历.