About the Center for Medical Simulation

Vision:

"Experiential healthcare learning that never puts a patient at risk."

Mission

"Using simulation to improve safety, quality and education in healthcare."

Be Ready with CMS: World-renowned healthcare team development, for everyday work and acute challenges.

CMS for Organizations: get your people ready for everyday work challenges and critical moments.

  • Create teams, design systems, sustain your staff, and build partnerships across programs with CMS-ALPS (Applied Learning for Performance and Safety).
  • Host essential courses for your educators with CMS-ATLAS (Academy for Teaching, Learning, and Advancement in Simulation).
  • Transform your culture one conversation at a time with Leadership Coaching, available for individuals and teams.

CMS for Individuals: Be confident in today’s work and ready for tomorrow’s role.

CMS-ATLAS courses for faculty readiness include:

  • Healthcare Simulation Essentials: Design and Debriefing (40 Hours)
  • Advanced Instructor Course (32 Hours)
  • Gateway Debriefing Skills Workshop (8 Hours)
  • DASH Rater Training Workshop (4 Hours)

Be ready to lead your own training programs on your own schedule with custom-length CMS in-person, hybrid, and online fellowships.

What We Do

Founded in 1993, CMS was one of the world’s first healthcare simulation centers. Two decades of simulation training to improve quality of care later, CMS continues to be a global leader in the field.

Simulation training at CMS gives healthcare providers a new and enlightening perspective on how to handle real medical situations. Through high-fidelity scenarios that simulate genuine crisis management situations, the CMS experience can open new chapters in the level of healthcare quality that participants provide.

At CMS the focus is on communication, collaboration and crisis management in order to develop skills and teamwork behaviors that are best learned actively under realistic conditions. Since it first opened in 1993, CMS has run over two thousand courses and trained thousands of participants using its innovative and challenging scenarios. We are proud to feature:

  • A multidisciplinary, expert staff, affiliated with some of the world’s most well-known and well-respected hospitals, medical universities and colleges
  • Exceptionally high-quality and innovative programs in full-environment facilities
  • A breadth of course offerings

CMS has been a leader in the healthcare simulation field since putting its first mannequin simulator into service in 1994. We have developed courses for clinicians, healthcare educators, administrators and managers, conducted research on a spectrum of topics, helped manufacturers to conduct human factors trials of their technologies and continue to initiate an array of healthcare simulation activities.

Accreditation

American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Simulation Education Network (SEN) logoCMS is an endorsed center by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA).

ACS AESCMS is approved by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as a Level 1-accredited Educational Institute.