Explore the Simulation Center
The Grand Valley State University Interprofessional Simulation Center supports students from multiple health-related disciplines to achieve the highest level of learning. A few of the programs supported include:
- Athletic Training
- Biomedical Sciences
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Diagnostic Medical Sonography
- Medical Laboratory Science
- Nursing
- Occupational Science & Therapy
- Physician Assistant Studies
- Physical Therapy
- Seidman College of Business
- Social Work
- Speech Language Pathology
Lab spaces and equipment, including task trainers, manikins, and supplies, are available to all health-related disciplines to foster an interprofessional learning environment for students.
Specialized lab areas include a model living suite, gait analysis lab, biomechanics lab, and a comprehensive audiology suite.
With both in-patient and out-patient suites, students are immersed in real-world settings.
Explore the GVSU Interprofessional Simulation Center
The Anatomy Lab offers a variety of tools allowing students to interact with different parts of the human body.
Plastinated specimens are authentic human specimens and present an up-close look at human anatomy.
Plastinates are accurate representations of preserved bodies illustrating all functional structures perfectly.
The Anatomage Table is the most technologically advanced 3D anatomy visualization and virtual dissection tool for anatomy and physiology education.
Users can visualize anatomy exactly as they would on a fresh cadaver.
Anatomage offers 4 gross anatomy cases, more than 20 high-resolution regional anatomy cases, and more than 1,000 pathological examples.
There are several assessment labs in the GVSU Interprofessional Simulation Center.
Each lab is outfitted with either hospital beds, outpatient exam tables, or plinth tables and are utilized by all programs.
With fourteen high-fidelity simulators, nineteen medium-fidelity simulators, and several low-fidelity manikins and task trainers, the Grand Valley State University (GVSU) Interprofessional Simulation Center has the opportunity to provide students with an endless amount of lifelike patient care scenarios.
The GVSU Interprofessional Simulation Center Hospital Simulation Suite is equipped with one ICU room, nine medical-surgical hospital rooms, and a maternity suite.
The simulation staff work in an advanced simulator control room to operate the simulator software and portray the voice of the patient assigned for the event.
All of the spaces in the Hospital Simulation Suite have the ability to stream and record encounters allowing students to observe their classmates and watch their encounter later.
Click here to view pictures of the Hospital Simulation Suite
A space for creativity and collaboration, the Creative Innovation Lab supports diverse innovation-driven activities.
This shared space is home to The Bridge on the Health Campus.
Visit the Creative Innovation Lab website for more information.
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This lab is setup to resemble a residential home complete with a full kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room, and dining room.
Students utilizing this lab learn how to conduct home visits and help patients function in their own surroundings.
The Model Living Suite has the ability to stream and record encounters allowing students to observe their classmates and watch their encounter later.
Click here to view pictures of the Model Living Suite
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Explore a 360° view of the Model Living Suite in DCIH 305
The GVSU Interprofessional Simulation Center has an operating room which allows students to practice periop procedures.
The lab is equipped with a Skytron OR boom and a Skytron surgical table.
The GVSU Interprofessional Simulation Center Standardized Patient Suite is equipped with 24 outpatient exam rooms.
The Standardized Patient Suite is designed to look like a general practitioner's office.
Standardized patients portray patients with many different conditions and emotional states.
Standardized patient events offer students the opportunity to practice communication and physical assessment skills in a safe environment and further their development as emerging health care professionals.
Standardized Patients are also utilized in the testing and evaluation of students and are coached to be able to effectively provide meaningful feedback to students verbally or through a written feedback tool.
All of the spaces in the Standardized Patient Suite have the ability to stream and record encounters allowing students to observe their classmates and watch their encounter later.
Click here to view pictures of the Standardized Patient Suite
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Explore 360° views of the Standardized Patient suite in DCIH 350
