Clinical Simulation
The clinical simulation team is committed to providing quality education in a variety of ways. Expertise is offered for skills training, high-fidelity simulation, courses, and educational resources. Our facilities and resources are available to our residency programs, affiliated partners, and by special arrangement. We offer certification and re-certification courses, skills lab, and various high-fidelity simulations. Our personnel offers services such as simulation design, scenario building, programming, and operating. Clinical simulation occurs in the simulation center and within our hospital system.
Our state-of-the-art multidisciplinary training facility is located in The Doug Meijer Innovations Building. The simulation labs provide simulation equipment including high-fidelity infant, child, and adult simulators, as well as many task trainers. We are equipped with TraumaMan simulators, laparoscopic trainers, GI mentors, ultrasound training phantoms, and ultrasound equipment.
For pricing and reservations, contact the Clinical Simulation team at cspd@spectrumhealth.org or 616.732.6224.
Doug Meijer Medical Innovation Building -109 Michigan Street NW Suite 300, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503
Courses and skills training
Advanced trauma life support (ATLS)
The ATLS Student Course presents a concise approach to assessing and managing multiple injured patients. The American College of Surgeons and its Committee on Trauma have developed the ATLS program for doctors which is a systematic, concise training for the early care of trauma patients. This is a two-day course. Upon successful completion of the course, the participant will receive a four-year Advanced Trauma Certification. The ATLS Certification course is offered at various times of the year.
Fundamentals of critical care support (FCCS)
The FCCS course is certified by the Society for Critical Care Medicine and is a two-day course. The curriculum introduces principles important in the initial care of critically ill/injured patients. The course is intended for physicians, physicians-in-training, nurses, and other healthcare providers who may or may not be skilled in critical care but must care for such patients during early stabilization and in anticipation of the arrival of an intensivist, specialist or pending transfer of the patient to a tertiary center.
Pediatric fundamentals of critical care support course (PFCCS)
The PFCCS course is certified by the Society for Critical Care Medicine. This is a comprehensive two-day course that addresses fundamental management principles for the first 24 hours of post-resuscitation management of the critically ill or injured pediatric patient until transfer or appropriate critical care consultation can be arranged.
Additional skills training opportunities
Besides multiple certification courses, we provide many opportunities for skills training via simulation. Residency and fellowship programs, as well as partnering institutions, may contact us to arrange skills training sessions, testing, and in-situ simulation. In addition, we encourage individual residents to contact us to make arrangements for individual skills practice, and will work with you to customize and meet your needs.
Courses are offered free of charge to residents and fellows at Corewell Health in West Michigan. At times, we have course availability for outside registrants. For pricing and reservations or if you need education not listed, contact the Clinical Simulation team at cspd@spectrumhealth.org or 616.732.6224.
Doug Meijer Medical Innovation Building - 109 Michigan Street NW Suite 300, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503
