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OSF Saint Francis Medical Center and the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria held a topping-off ceremony for a medical training center. The Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center will allow medical students and professionals to hone their trade using mannequins, video game-type surgical technology and actor-patients. John Vozenilek is the center’s chief medical officer. He says the center will allow medical personnel to train more efficiently:
“Like any performance, athletes looking for his or\ her peak performance goes into training and does so in a very committed fashion,” Vozenilek says. “So this building and the people who work within it will allow a whole new set of techniques to look at performance improvement and to make the next step towards quality and safety.”
Vozenilek says tens of thousands of people can train at the center each year. There are less than 10 simulation centers in the U.S. like the one OSF and the medical school are building. The $50\ million Simulation and Education Center will be part of a new six-story facility across from the Children’s Hospital of Illinois. It will be finished in Spring 2013. |
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