Patient Simulation Center
The purpose of this site is to support training, practice and research opportunities in the human Patient simulation lab for medical students, anesthesiologists and residents to the benefit of our Patients, research initiatives and educational directives.
The Patient Simulation Center located in Rebecca Sealy Hospital at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston was opened in 2001 and was built under a generous grant by the Sealy and Smith Foundation for the purpose of training faculty, house staff and medical students in a safe learning environment where errors are encouraged and learning is fostered in a non-threatening, non-judgmental environment. The center consists of two teaching rooms which are wired for video and audio recording, a control room, a conference room and a commons area.
Courses are offered year-round in Crisis Resource Management, Airway Management and Trauma Resuscitation. We also offer courses in Pediatric Critical care, Family Medicine, Obstetrics, ACLS, Emergency Room and Critical Care Medicine. The Patient Simulation Center was also the first program in the country to be endorsed (in 2008) by the ASA Editorial Board for Simulation Education to offer the MOCA simulation component course for Part IV. These courses are offered year-round.
The "Human Patient Simulator" (HPS) is a high fidelity, computer driven mannequin that can be programmed to have a variety of physiologic presentations based mathematically on physiologically accurate algorithms. These mannequins react to injected medications and otherwise respond hemodynamically as human patients do. Our center has adult, child, baby and portable mannequins as well as a variety of task trainers.
Center Staff
DirectorRonald Levy, MD
Assistant Director
Stefanie Fischer, MD
Education Director
Rene Przkora, MD
Center Coordinator
Carmela Dailey, BS
Teaching Faculty
Lisa Farmer, MD
Sean Funston, MD
Lynn Knox, MD
Alexis Lutschg, MD
Tom McCammon, MD
Daneshvari Solanki, MD
Support Staff
Lori Huepers