The Center for Advanced Medical Simulation (CAMS) at Mount Sinai West is hosting its pioneering annual Tristate Regional Simulation Symposium. The symposium is scheduled for Friday, May 17, from 11 am to 2 pm, using a live online format.
The theme for this eighth annual symposium is “Embracing Change: How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Can Influence Health Care Simulation.” The symposium will include plenary talks, data-driven presentations, and panel discussions.
“Together, we will explore AI possibilities to enhance patient safety, team performance, and outcomes in simulation-based education and powerfully affirm everything that is most striking about simulation that we do at our institutions and worldwide,” said Priscilla V. Loanzon, EdD, RN, CHSE, Director of Simulation Education, Center for Advanced Medical Simulation, and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Since the pandemic, the format for the symposium has changed from a full-day onsite and in-person conference to a three-hour live online. The target audience has expanded over the years from regional to national and international. Attendees can earn credits for continuing medical education and continuing education units.
CAMS is one of the Mount Sinai Health System’s outstanding simulation centers, all dedicated to improving patient safety, communication, and medical education. It provides health care training opportunities to professionals in the safe learning environment of a lab setting, offering courses that include case-based simulation, in-situ simulation, and procedural training such as point of care ultrasonography, central line training, blood culture competency, medical code response, managing mechanically ventilated patients, and advanced airway management. The Center includes three simulation laboratories, a virtual-reality training arcade, and two conference rooms. All areas of CAMS are equipped with audiovisual and video-recording equipment to facilitate education, training, debriefing, and research and quality improvement projects.
The Center, accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), is working with the Continuing Medical Education Department, Mount Sinai’s Office of Corporate Compliance and Office of Development.
To learn more about the symposium, contact Dr. Loanzon at priscilla.loanzon@mountsinai.org or call 212-523-8698.
The Society for Simulation in Healthcare declared September 11-15, 2017, as an inaugural simulation week with a focus on celebrating the professionals who work in health care simulation to improve the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care.
“CAMS invited the simulation centers in the tristate area to a joint celebration through a symposium,” said Dr. Loanzon. “This inaugural celebration was intended to powerfully affirm the tristate region’s successes, opportunities, and myriad possibilities to be the best in what we do so well individually and collectively.”