Tech Week Grand Rapids
Join us this year during tech week at The Simulation Innovation Playground to explore a range of emerging technology that is used by the Interprofessional Simulation Center.
The Grand Valley State University Interprofessional Simulation Center provides a dynamic, hands-on learning environment that supports students from a wide range of health-related disciplines.
Equipped with advanced lab spaces and simulation tools—including task trainers, manikins, and essential clinical supplies—the center fosters interprofessional collaboration and skill development.
Specialized facilities such as a model living suite, gait analysis lab, biomechanics lab, and a comprehensive audiology suite offer students unique opportunities to engage in realistic clinical scenarios.
With both inpatient and outpatient simulation suites, learners are fully immersed in settings that mirror real-world healthcare environments, preparing them for effective, team-based patient care.
Mission
Empowering a community of lifelong learners, cultivating collaborative interdisciplinary practice, and generating evidence through research and discovery. Advancing professional competencies within a safe, experiential simulation environment supported by evidence-based practice and innovative technology.
Vision
To be a premier innovator in interdisciplinary simulation, advancing human-centered design, open-resource technologies, advancing research, and mobile education to prepare future-ready professionals for evolving roles, navigate complex challenges, and strengthen communities through collaboration, discovery, and lifelong learning.
Values
- Education: Excellence in teaching, enhancing curriculum goals and objectives, experiential learning, innovative simulation events and programming
- Quality: Outcome measures, continuous quality improvement, benchmarking, evidence based best practices
- Teamwork: Working together to achieve common goals using open communication, integrity, problem solving, critical thinking and respect
- Scholarship: Sharing knowledge through research, publication, presentation, and professional development
- Community: Strategic partnerships through collaboration, service learning, and healthcare education
