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medical education – peoria by David Haney photos by Darryl Wilson Real Cases, Simulated Patien Newly opened Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center provides Peoria students, A patient presents with acute anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction. Another one goes into cardiac arrest, and his survival depends on a well-choreographed, rapid response. What happens next in each of these situations is vital to the patient's health outcome— actions that can impact life or death, recovery time, even a patient's experience that will affect future choices. The decisions that happen next in each instance also critically impact health care resources. The Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center (Jump), a collaboration of the College of Medicine in Peoria and OSF Healthcare, is revolutionizing medical education and training by replicating realistic events in a world-class simulation facility. Here, teams learn and train together, individuals and teams can hone their skills, they can even create and test innovative medical devices and training models, in a safe environment. Jump, which opened its doors in April, is among very few centers in the country using simulation across the spectrum to advance education, improve performance and build research. It covers nearly 60,000 square feet and includes all the vital aspects of a virtual hospital, such as an Intensive Care Unit, inpatient and outpatient rooms, and an operating room. Jump also provides focus on learning and improving competency skills. 18 | Fa l l 2 013 "The advantage of simulation is that you can teach skills you couldn't teach in real life without involving real patients, or you can teach events that don't happen very often," says Sara Rusch, MD, Res '81, MACP, regional dean in Peoria. "For example, mercifully, it is a rare situation when a child stops breathing—but when it does happen, you want everything to work perfectly, every member of the team to do their job, and know what should happen and perform it flawlessly. So how do you practice that response? How do you improve that response?" Simulation offers a wide range of opportunities for improvement and enhanced learning that a lecture or traditional learning doesn't. For example, medical students, residents, physicians and nurses together can practice "blue alert" responses in Jump's virtual Intensive Care Unit. Medical students can practice suturing or drawing blood in the Skills Lab. Patient transfers from the bed of an ambulance will be assessed in the Regional Transport Center, and residents and physicians may practice laparoscopic surgery in the Virtual Training Lab. Simulation provides learning opportunities that have a real impact on lives. "The senior resident on call for the general pediatric unit had a patient with acute anaphylaxis requiring immediate management," recalls Trina Croland, MD, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics and a hospitalist at Children' Hospital of Illinois in Peoria. "The resident said the only place she'd ever seen what was happening was in the sim lab, when we taught a similar case. She said she remembered exactly what to do and the child did fine, but without the sim lab case she felt she

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