Simulation Center Open House to Showcase New Equipment

WHAT: The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s (TTUHSC) F. Marie Hall SimLife Center will host a come-and-go open house to familiarize TTUHSC faculty, staff and students with several types of clinical simulations, high-tech mannequins and equipment available to optimize learning for students and current health care professionals.

WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday (Aug. 14)

WHERE: TTUHSC, 3601 4th St., 1C425

EVENT: The most recent additions to the SimLife Center are an Anatomage life-size virtual dissection table; Eyesi Surgical, a high-end virtual reality simulator for intraocular surgical training; ARTHRO Mentor™, an advanced arthroscopic training simulator; and SimMom™, an advanced full-body interactive birthing simulator.

The F. Marie Hall SimLife Center is a 25,000-square-foot interprofessional, multimodality clinical simulation center that provides multiple realistic health care environments designed to assist learners in acquiring the competencies necessary to provide safe, culturally sensitive, quality patient care and transferring these competencies to actual care settings.

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