Healthcare Simulation South Carolina

Healthcare Simulation South Carolina

Welcome to the Healthcare Simulation South Carolina website, sponsored by the Clinical Effectiveness and Patient Safety Center, one of the Health Sciences South Carolina Centers of Economic Excellence. The overarching goal of the CEPSC is to develop an infrastructure to support a statewide network of collaborating healthcare simulation centers.

 This shared infrastructure equips the collaborating centers to produce measurable results demonstrating the success of simulation-based education and research activities in South Carolina.

The CEPSC Collaborative Partners include:

• Clemson University College of Nursing Simulation Center
• Greenville Hospital System Healthcare Simulation Center

• Greenville Technical College Healthcare Simulation Center
• Horry Georgetown Technical College Simulation Center
  

• Medical University of South Carolina Healthcare Simulation Center
• Trident Technical College Simulation Center 
• University of South Carolina Aiken
  

• University of South Carolina College of Nursing Simulation Center
• University of South Carolina Beaufort College of Nursing 
• University of South Carolina Upstate Simulation Center
  

With modern healthcare simulation still relatively new and the emergence of a wider range of technically more advanced simulators, human simulation has become the next frontier in healthcare education. Lagging behind however, is the development of methodologies and pre-existing course materials that allow high volume and valuable use of these technologies. There is no readily available “off the shelf” roadmap to success in this field. Prior to creation of the CEPSC, South Carolina (like most states) lacked the body of expertise within its healthcare institutions to successfully implement statewide simulation-based education and research activities.

When John J. Schaefer, III, MD was recruited and hired as the Director of the CEPSC in February 2006, South Carolina gained the necessary expertise to emerge as a leader in the field of healthcare simulation. Not only has Dr. Schaefer spent the past 15 years creating competency-based simulation courses, but also creating specific methodologies for achieving high volume and measurably valuable simulation-based educational experiences. Under Dr. Schaefer’s leadership the South Carolina collaborating centers and CEPSC are poised to achieve their missions through healthcare simulation

For more information about the SC Center of Economic Excellence please visit their website at http://www.sccoee.org/.