Annenberg Simulation Center

The 1,250-square-foot Annenberg Simulation Center brings together three key areas of focus for Lankenau Medical Center: patient care excellence, academic achievement and innovative research. Located on the top level of the Nursing Education Building of the Annenberg Center, it is a place for physicians, nurses and other clinicians to master procedures and learn critical skills—away from the patient's bedside, improving the delivery of safe and effective patient care.

Physician and nursing champions throughout Main Line Health oversee training at the Center, where physicians, residents, fellows and nurses from all MLH hospitals can learn new procedures and fine-tune old ones, practice infection prevention measures and enact team scenarios, such as patient codes. Clinicians at different levels of experience and seniority interact in a team setting that encourages communication, respect and cooperation.

Features of the Simulation Center include:

• Life-like, remote-controlled mannequins that simulate symptoms and make sounds. They serve as realistic, virtual patients for a level of experiential learning that cannot be achieved in an ordinary classroom

• Two team training areas and a control room

• State-of-the-art audio and visual system

• Training/debriefing room for team members to evaluate their own and their colleagues' performances in a positive environment that encourages honest feedback