Interprofessional Simulation

In 2014, teams of USI students completed an Interprofessional Simulation in which a patient suffers a cardiac arrest. The team members, many who met each other for the first time shortly before the simulation started, responded flawlessly and came together to save the simulation patient. This group did an outstanding job presenting to the University of Southern Indiana's Board of Trustees in which they showed them the importance of communication and the future of healthcare with teamwork to achieve positive patient outcomes. Video by Mike Fetscher

Learn more about the Simulation Center at USI

Dr. Martin Reed, Radiologic and Imaging Sciences, and Jody Delp, Clinical Director of Respiratory Therapy, engaged students in their first interprofessional clinical simulation experience. Here they share a discussion of issues they considered in setting up the activity and lessons they learned from it.

Student comments on the benefits of the experience included:

• "We learned more about working with other hospital team members."
• "I appreciated learning about the specific tasks of another peer’s profession."
• "It's important to work with another profession and learn how to work with them before we graduate."
• "We learned about working with other students and understanding the importance of effective communication with them."