McGill University

About

Giving you an inside view of the activities that take place at the McGill Simulation Centre.

Story

The McGill Medical Simulation Centre was officially opened on September 14, 2006 as a result of a collaboration between McGill and its Faculty of Medicine and its affiliated hospitals.

The Centre set out to provide simulation-based medical education in an inter-professional manner, encompassing the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, and Communication Sciences and Disorders.

In September 2009, the Centre was re-named the Arnold & Blema Steinberg Medical Simulation Centre. Three months later, it was accredited as an American College of Surgeons Level I Comprehensive Education Institute. The Centre has also been successfully accredited by the Society of Simulation in Healthcare (2010) and The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2011).

In October 2015, a new vision and strategy were launched, and the facility was renamed The Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning.

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Simulation has been a part of medical care for decades, from learning how to tie knots on a bench-top model, to practising how to share bad news with a patient, to utilizing high-fidelity virtual reality simulation to practise procedures involving the whole health care team.

Simulation works. We know that it is a good idea to train in a risk-free and educationally orientated environment. It is now paramount to take simulation to the stage where, through better innovation, research and implementation, we can truly realize its potential to impact patient care. Simulation-based training can be used to learn new skills, but also to advance our existing skills, from competent to expert. It can also help us to regularly assess and maintain our ongoing performance.

The Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning is a technologically advanced and immersive facility, with space, equipment and expertise to rival any centre across the globe.

Our passion and drive is to deliver high-quality educational activities to health care professionals, and to provide a venue to engage in cutting-edge research and innovation. This must be guided by our mission to deliver better care for our patients, and to work with our community to become a locus for better health overall.

Mission

To employ simulation in a health care context, focused on the education of health care professionals, patients and the public, in a sustainable learning environment, to maximize the delivery of safe and high-quality clinical care, underpinned by intellectual discovery through ground-breaking research and innovation.

"McGill University is one of Canada's best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill from over 150 countries, our student body is the most internationally diverse of any research-intensive university in the country.In addition to a stellar faculty, McGill is known for attracting the brightest students from across Canada, the United States, and around the world. McGill students have the highest average entering grades in Canada, and our commitment to fostering the very best has helped our students win more national and international awards on average than their peers at any other Canadian university."