The advanced training suite at Toronto Western Hospital (TWH) is a resource for the entire hospital, inclusive to all departments to carry out high fidelity and part task training simulation for both education and research purposes. Specifically for the anesthesiology residency program, a curriculum has been developed, allowing residents to participate in high fidelity crisis resource scenarios on a weekly basis. Additionally, anesthesiology residents and fellows can come to the suite to refine bronchoscopy skills using a sophisticated virtual bronchoscopy simulator. A neuroanesthesiology high fidelity simulation curriculum is being developed for TWH fellows to get exposure to perioperative neurosurgical emergencies.
We also run multidisciplinary scenarios with operating room and recovery room nurses to practice effective handover of patients postoperatively. Many other initiatives are in the pipeline to give all of our anesthesiology trainees greater access to educational simulation opportunities.
Atul Prabhu
Toronto Western Hospital
Department of Anesthesiology
399 Bathurst St., McL 2-405
Toronto, ON M5T 2S8
phone: 416-603-5118
fax: 416-603-6494
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