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Virtual Health System Space Overview
Digital Health, Virtual Learning and AI Integration Lab
Our new healthcare simulation lab is designed to set a new standard in learner assessment, feedback and skill development. Beyond advanced A/V technology to promote self-assessment and meaningful performance feedback, the space integrates emerging innovations — AI-driven decision support, ambient scribing, digital health integration and technologies to promote precision medicine — directly into clinical workflows. With added tools like Point-of-Care Ultrasound training, telehealth technologies and virtual patient case studies, students and practicing professionals gain immersive experiences that prepare them for the future of health care.
Emergency Department
Featuring six treatment rooms and a fully equipped trauma bay, this space supports learners in practicing focused history and physical exams, clinical procedures and critical decision-making in both individual and interprofessional team formats.
Empathy Lab
The Scholl Family Foundation Empathy Lab is a physical space where students can step into the shoes of a patient and briefly experience what it might be like to have a specific diagnosis. We use adaptive equipment and virtual reality to simulate a variety of diagnoses such as visual disorders, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and many more. We believe that by having these experiences, our students will provide better patient-centered care and thus, both patients and providers will have improved outcomes.
Healthcare Makerspace and Innovation Lab
This interdisciplinary workspace fuels innovation. With 3D printing technology to create lifelike surgical models, manikin components and moulage for realistic training, it inspires creative problem solving and enhances the realism, customization and fidelity of surgical and medical simulations.
Inpatient Care
Simulated hospital rooms for adult and pediatric care provide learners opportunities to engage in bedside care, interprofessional rounding and communication with patients and families, promoting quality improvement and workflow efficiency, patient-centered care and patient safety.
Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
A high-acuity environment where learners can practice advanced critical care skills and teamwork in complex, rapidly evolving scenarios, preparing them to manage critically ill patients while applying patient-centered care and patient safety principles.
Interprofessional Collaboration Studio
Designed to foster team learning and innovation, this flexible space supports small group workshops, serious gaming, team decision-making and collaborative problem-solving. The studio includes a 360° interactive video wall, allowing immersive, adaptable environments to be projected for high impact training. One day, it may replicate the interior of an ambulance; the next, a home environment for hospital-at-home training or an outdoor disaster scene. This is also a creative space for teams to interact, discuss and solve complex healthcare system challenges through exploration and tabletop exercises.
Labor and Delivery
This space allows students and teams to practice managing routine and complicated deliveries, as well as postpartum care, through manikin and standardized patient-based simulations to promote safer outcomes for mothers and infants.
Operating Theater and Procedure Suites
Including a full operating room and a procedure suite, this area immerses learners in perioperative care, surgical techniques and anesthesia workflows, enhancing their technical skills and familiarity with interprofessional roles in operative environments.
Outpatient Clinic
With 14 exam rooms, this zone serves as a training ground for foundational and advanced communication, clinical reasoning, patient education, and optimization of chronic disease management and prevention.