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Patient Simulation
CAE HEALTHCARE 2015 CATALOG
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Helps Center
New York City, USA
At the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New
York City, Dr. Adam Levine directs simulation
training for medical students, residents and
physicians at all levels of practice in the
Department of Anesthesiology’s HELPS
(Human Emulation, Education and Evaluation
Lab for Patient Safety) Center. An early adopter
of human patient simulation, the Department
of Anesthesiology founded the lab in the
spring of 1994 with the first commercial HPS.
“We’ve always been a very early adopter
of technology,” says Levine. “We’re proud of
our innovation.” Today, the HELPS Center is
known for its leading-edge simulations for profes-
sional licensing, retraining and competency
assessment. In addition to offering regular
Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology
(MOCA) courses, the HELPS Center has
conducted high stakes competency
assessment for medical licensing bodies based
in Vermont, New Jersey and New York.
Using HPS simulation, the staff has remedi-
ated physicians who have been remanded by
the New York Office of Professional Medical
Conduct due to poor outcomes.
The center also retrains individual anesthe-
siologists who have been on prolonged hiatus
or who want to expand their practices. The
clinical staff creates the training and assessment
scenarios on the HPS.
“There is no alternative for us,” says Dr.
Levine. “With the types of simulation we do
at Sinai, we would not feel comfortable or be
capable of creating them with any simulator
other than an HPS. It immediately lends the
fidelity that we need.”
Residents practice an anesthesia scenario at
Mount Sinai School of Medicine HELPS Center.
Educator: Innovator