Marjorie Lee White, MD, MPPM, MA
We've continued our hectic pace in June! Thanks to all of you who have participated in our courses. We are working hard to develop and improve our processes so that we can continue to provide simulations with you. Please let us know how we can help you.
I'm thrilled to welcome Tim Holloway, MSN, RN as our newest team member. Tim is a new faculty member in the School of Nursing who is embedded fulltime with the Office. He will be the goto person for universityside simulation curriculum development and deployment after his onboarding. Please join me in welcoming him. You can read about him in the profile below.
We are thrilled to be in our new space on Jefferson Tower 2nd floor. Many of us now have offices on the corridor, and we are looking forward to being able to offer additional procedural simulation training as soon as our additional space is outfitted. Thanks to all who have participated in making improvements to the simulation facilities in QBT3/JT2. They include: Arpan Limdi, Juan DeOnis, Amy Cope, Robert Witherspoon, Milbeth Shipp, William Cruz, Steve Crowder, Norman Carr, Terry Allen, Mark McKay, Anthony Banks, Bobby Sawyer, Ronald Caldwell, "Mr. Tim," Tracy Paige, Delores "Dede" O'Dell, Daryl Graves, and Ed Crump. In addition, our work studies/student workers (Bradley J. Bertke, James T. Nunally, Deidra C. Atkinson, Joey Travis and Kathryn Skelton) have been working tirelessly to aid in the transition.
We continue to offer high quality simulation facilitator training and to support simulation courses whether in the simulation centers we manage at Quarterback Tower or Volker Hall Simulation Sandbox or in situ (on location near you). We want to work with you to change the way we care for patients. Email us with your suggestions simulation@uab.edu.
Simulation News
CIPES 7th Annual Interprofessional Symposium
Join the Center for Interprofessional Education and Simulation on July 25 at the UAB School of Nursing for an interactive day centered around “Elevating Patient Safety Through Interprofessional Innovation.” Our keynote speaker, Dr. Neil Mehta, MD, from the Cleveland Clinic will address how to use “Generative AI and Custom GPTs to Enhance Interprofessional Education.”School of Education Simulation Pilot
On December 6, the School of Education partnered with OIPS to pilot an on-site simulation in the Volker Hall Sim Center. The simulation consisted of students from the Special Education and School Psychometry programs in the School of Education.
Social Work Simulations
On October 18, the College of Arts and Sciences – Department of Social Work partnered with OIPS to host an on-site simulation in the Volker Hall Sim Center. The simulation consisted of students from the Department of Social Work in UAB’s College of Arts and Sciences and is made possible by federal Child Welfare Title IV-E funding.
Take a look inside UAB’s simulation capabilities
On Aug. 30, 2023, UAB’s Office of Interprofessional Simulation hosted an open house in its newly updated, 5,000-square-foot, seven-room Simulation Center on the ground floor of Volker Hall.