SimPORTAL News

New Equipment

SimPORTAL recently received the new SimNewB manufactured by Laerdal Medical. SimNewB is an interactive simulator, designed with the American Academy of Pediatrics to meet the training requirements of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) course. This simulator has realistic newborn traits and lifelike clinical feedback for training for the specific needs of neonates. The simulator accurately represents a full term, 50th percentile newborn female. Measuring 21 inches and weighing 7 lbs., SimNewB can present as a limp, cyanotic newborn with no vital signs, or as a moving, crying, vigorous newborn.

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ACS Accreditation

On December 21, 2007, SimPORTAL received notification that the SimPORTAL program had received American College of Surgeons accreditation as a Level I ACS Accredited Education Institute, becoming one of only nineteen such institutions in the country.

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Surgical Simulation Fellowship Available

A position has been posted on the University of Minnesota Job Site for a Surgical Simulation Fellow. The goal of this position is to provide a foundation for creating international leaders in the development, evaluation and delivery of curricula enhanced by surgical techniques. Once this one year fellowship is completed, the Surgical Simulation Fellow will be facile in simulation education theory and practice and will be able to develop their own technical skills with an array of simulation activities. The Fellow will be involved in the use of our simulation facilities at their leisure as well as via the design and implementation of all surgical simulation activities that occur within the Medical School's Simulation Perioperative Resource for Training and Learning (SimPORTAL), being involved in their choice of an array of simulation research projects via the Center for Research in Education and Simulation Technologies (CREST) and via participation in the SimPORTAL's Curriculum and Assessment Council.

Applicants must be an M.D. and be enrolled or have completed a residency in any surgically-oriented field. International candidates with the intent on developing a simulation center/program in their home country are encouraged to apply.

An applicant has already been selected for the fellowship starting July 1, 2008; however we will soon begin accepting applications for the fellowship starting July 1, 2009.