WASHINGTON (September 12, 2019) – In honor of Global Healthcare Simulation Week (Sept. 16-20), Howard University's Simulation & Clinical Skills Center will hold an “Open House” event on Wednesday, Sept. 18, from noon to 2 p.m. The center is located in the Howard University College of Medicine, 520 W. Street NW, Seeley Mudd Building.

The Howard University Simulation & Clinical Skills Center is a state-of-the-art facility that serves nearly all of the 13 schools and colleges across campus. Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to tour the facility and meet the expert simulation professionals during the open house.

“Healthcare simulation is an outstanding learning tool that recreates the clinical environment and allows learners to experience realistic healthcare events,” says Tamara Owens, Ph.D., director of Simulation & Clinical Skills Center at Howard University. “The purpose of healthcare simulation is to teach new skills, refresh old ones, and improve the delivery of safe and effective patient care.”

The goal of the Global Healthcare Simulation Week is to increase awareness among the public of the importance of simulation to healthcare. The Global Healthcare Simulation Week is sponsored by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. 

For more information, contact Dr. Tamara Owens at 202-865-0063.

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About the HU Simulation & Clinical Skills Centers

The Howard University Simulation & Clinical Skills Center under the direction of Dr. Debra Ford and Dr. Tamara Owens is an accredited COMPREHENSIVE– Accredited Education Institute (AEI) by the American College of Surgeons (ACS).  The Centers builds upon the historic legacy of Howard University, with a commitment to excellence in providing innovative and a diverse range of simulation based educational programs designed to train compassionate global healthcare leaders of the future. The mission of the Centers is to promote patient safety through simulation education.

About the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH)

The purpose of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare is to serve a global community of practice enhancing the quality of healthcare. SSH seeks to improve performance and reduce errors in patient care through the use of simulation. Established in 2004, SSH membership is 3,700+ strong—an international community of physicians, nurses, technologists, professors and other specialists advocating and implementing healthcare simulation in education, practice and research. SSH fosters the improvement and application of simulation–based modalities such as human patient simulators, virtual reality, standardized patients and task trainers for all healthcare disciplines.