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other allied healthcare disciplines together in one training session because that���s how health care is practiced. Even though the doctor may lead the team, we believe that each member of the team has a critical role in helping patients get better.��� The Center offers training in three core areas, including basic and advanced cardiac life support, disaster training, and simulation-based education utilizing standardized patient actors, cadavers and high fidelity robotic mannequins. Both Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and Summa Health System have already taken advantage of the Center���s unique approach for staff training in cardiac life support. The Center���s efficient teaching methods have been shown to cut traditional training time in half, while freeing up hospital-based staff development professionals to offer more advanced application of new skills in the clinical setting. Summa and Akron General Medical Center have utilized CSIHE for disaster training. Certified as a regional training center by the National Disaster Life Support Foundation to teach core, basic and advanced disaster life support courses, CSIHE offers safe and controlled environments where hospital-based emergency response teams can gain experience dealing with biological, radiological, nuclear or other natural or man-made disasters. Dr. Holder, who learned firsthand the importance of preparedness in Washington, DC, on 9/11, says the time to learn is before disaster strikes. ���It���s better to drill and practice frequently enough so you can modify your current operating procedures to withstand this kind of insult to your system,��� he advises. The CSIHE���s third core training piece ��� simulation ��� focuses on handson team training in clinical tasks and in communicating at a critical level, with patients, healthcare providers and industry alike. Students from NEOMED, the University of Akron, and Case Western Reserve University are frequent visitors, as are experienced doctors and nurses. Pennsylvania-based Stryker distributor Three Rivers Orthopaedics recently used the ABIA���s cadaver lab to offer advanced training in knee replacement to orthopaedic surgeons. As part of its futuristic approach to simulation in health care, the ABIA in partnership with Summa has established Ohio���s first simulation fellowship program. The goal is to train healthcare professionals to utilize simulation as a key method in training others. Additionally, to ensure an ongoing high level of technical supervision for simulation programs like those at CSIHE, plans are being made for a simulation technology degree at the University of Akron. ABIA president/CEO Frank L. Douglas, MD, PhD, stands in the triage area of the mock Emergency Department in the Center for Simulation and Integrated Healthcare Education. This 30,000 square foot Center also includes a mock OR, ICU and OB unit.