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All Simulation Courses: Catalog

ALL Simulation Courses: Catalog

The UMass Chan interprofessional Center for Experiential Learning and Simulation (iCELS) offers multi-modal, high fidelity, hands-on learning sessions, facilitated by educators with advanced training in education, clinical and simulation skills. Experiences may be offered on UMass Chan campus in Worcester, MA, onsite at your location, online, or both. Working with our simulation team, most courses can be adapted and paired with our standardized patients or procedural skills training programs to develop unique courses that are tailored to meet your team's needs. Opportunities for continuing education credit are also available and customizable on request. Let us help you. What skill is your team currently looking to master?

UMass Chan iCELS simulation courses on team-based skills
Team-Based Skills                 
UMass Chan iCELS simulation courses on patient care procedural skills
Patient Care Procedural Skills
UMass Chan iCELS non-procedural clinical skills
Non-Procedural Clinical Skills    
UMass Chan iCELS simulation faculty educator development program
Faculty/Educator Development    

Team-Based Skills

Targeted / Client-Specific Simulation

Needs assessment completed by your staff and iCELS simulation educators to develop custom healthcare-based simulation exercises to promote teamwork, test clinical pathways and processes, identify gaps in patient care and experience, improve quality or address sentinel events.
Duration: Customized to Your Educational Objectives

Precipitous Delivery

Review concepts and care of the patient presenting in imminent delivery including uncomplicated vaginal delivery, shoulder dystocia, breech presentation, and post-partum hemorrhage.
Duration: 8 hours

Disclosure & Apology

Learners review and discuss the Massachusetts General Law Disclosure, Apology and Offer. A recording of a simulated near miss in a clinical setting is viewed and learners assume the roles of the medical team. The team gathers for a team huddle before simulating a disclosure and apology session with iCELS educators and Standardized Patients. The experience is then debriefed and opportunities to build upon and improve communication are discussed before engaging in more deliberate practice. 
Duration: 4 hours

Resuscitation

Team-based scenarios to develop mastery of cardiac resuscitation and post-arrest care. Can be coordinated with the Office of Continuing Medical Education to deliver American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification.
Duration: 4-8 hours 

Rapid Response

Team-based scenarios to identify patients who require escalation of care and life-saving interventions. Leadership, role clarity and communication are re-enforced to help better prepare clinical staff to mitigate  Can be coordinated with the Office of Continuing Medical Education to deliver American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification.
Duration: 4-8 hours

Crisis Resource Management

Team based training to develop non-technical skills during interprofessional care. Focusing on leadership, communication, teamwork and situational awareness, learners will review and practice strategies to optimize team-based care.
Duration: 4-8 hours

Equitable Communication 

Practice-based training to enhance cultural awareness, build cultural competence and practice equitable communication to improve team, clinical and research communication. Programs can be in-person, hybrid or virtual and may incorporate standardized patients. 
Duration: 2-6 hours

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Patient Care Procedural Skills

Structured deliberate practice training sessions for individuals or groups with individual deliberate practice.

Airway Management

Basic and Advanced airway skills including a review of oxygen delivery devices, oro/naso pharyngeal airways, patient positioning and optimization, laryngoscopy, supraglottic airways, and surgical cricothyroidotomy.
Duration: 4 hours

Direct and Video Laryngoscopy

Laryngoscopy using direct and video-assisted techniques.
Duration: 2 hours

Central Venous Catheter Placement

Ultrasound guided internal jugular and ultrasound assisted subclavian CVC placement training. Training inclusive of patient selection, informed consent, and deliberate practice of CVL placement.
Duration: 3 hours

Intravenous (IV) Line Placement

Intravenous therapy training on simulated upper extremities. Best practices in the placement and use of IV lines.
Duration: 1.5 hours

Intraosseous IV Placement

Intraosseous therapy training on simulated upper and lower extremities. Best practices in the placement and use of IO lines.
Duration: 1 hour

Transvenous Cardiac Pacing

Transvenous cardiac pacing training on simulated torso. Best practices in the placement and use of transvenous pacing lines. This training can be adapted to teach internal jugular cordis catheter placement followed transvenous wire advancement and discussion of adjusting a transvenous pacer to increase cardiac output.
Duration: 1-3 hours

Arterial Line Placement

Ultrasound and landmark based arterial cannulation for invasive blood pressure monitoring and arterial blood sampling.
Duration: 1 hour

Tube and Finger Thoracostomy

Needle decompression followed by finger thoracostomy and chest tube placement in a simulated torso.
Duration: 2 hours

Lumbar Puncture

Landmark based identification and practice of lumbar puncture, landmark and ultrasound-based.
Duration: 2 hours

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Donning and Doffing

PPE practice for sterile procedures i.e., operating room and CVC placement.
Duration: 45 minutes

Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Basic and advanced training designed for novice and experienced providers reinforcing basic and new concepts in ultrasound-based assessment and procedures. Learners will use static models and live models to enhance their comfort with point-of-care ultrasound examinations. Courses can be tailored to the target audience.
Duration: Customized to Your Educational Objectives

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Non-Procedural Clinical Skills

Structured training sessions for individuals or groups with individual deliberate practice and assessment working with our trained Standardized Patients. Patient communication and examination skills development and assessment:

Patient Communication (History-taking, Shared Decision-making, Behavioral Counseling)

For clinical scenarios including, but not limited to: primary care, internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, geriatrics, obstetrics & gynecology, neurology, psychiatry, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physical therapy, nursing, microaggressions, intimate partner violence, substance use disorder incl opioids, alcohol
Duration: Customized to Your Educational Objectives

Full Body or Focused Physical Exam (PE)

With or without an accompanying case scenario
Duration: Customized to Your Educational Objectives

Male Urogenital Exam

Instructions and patient practice on UMass Chan certified Male Urogenital Teaching Associates (MUTAs) in a supportive healthcare education environment that prioritizes patient dignity and safety
Duration: Customized to Your Educational Objectives

Gynecological Exam

Instructions and patient practice on UMass Chan certified Gynecological Teaching Associates (GTAs) in a supportive healthcare education environment that prioritizes patient dignity and safety
Duration: Customized to Your Educational Objectives

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Faculty / Educator Development

A faculty/educator program offered to build critical skills in simulation and debriefing applicable to ongoing on-site teamwork and quality improvement.

Introduction to Healthcare-Based Simulation

Duration: 1 hour

Basic Concepts of Simulation-Based Debriefing

Duration: 3 hours

Advanced Concepts of Simulation-Based Debriefing

Duration: 4 hours

Simulation and Scenario Design

Duration: 3 hours

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Last Updated: Mar 16th, 2023
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