{"id":32038,"date":"2015-02-24T11:08:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T21:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=32038"},"modified":"2021-09-29T14:57:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:57:40","slug":"simulated-patient-lab-at-medical-school-earns-elite-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/24\/simulated-patient-lab-at-medical-school-earns-elite-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulated patient lab at medical school earns elite status"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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The SimTiki Center and Control Room at JABSOM<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The simulated patient lab at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> medical school has reached elite status—becoming 1 of only 13 such centers in the country accredited for research as well as teaching.<\/p>\n

The Simulation Center at the John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (JABSOM<\/abbr>) is called SimTiki<\/a>. It features breathing, talking mannequins with vital signs. The simulated patients can be programmed to experience virtually any sort of medical emergency, and to respond to treatment.<\/p>\n

The mannequins make for life-like encounters used to test students’ clinical and emergency skills. SimTiki conducts about 1,000 encounters per year for medical students and MD<\/abbr>s who are still in residency (or graduate medical education training) at JABSOM<\/abbr>, as well as for community-based professional healthcare workers ranging from air ambulance crews to hospital trauma teams. SimTiki operators are also in demand on the road. Last year they trained medical educators in more than 30 overseas programs, including in Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and Poland.<\/p>\n

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