MEDIA ADVISORY: Oct. 9, 2009
Contacts:
Anne McMillin, APR
Office 775-682-9254
Mobile 702-292-4247
amcmillin@medicine.nevada.edu
Edgar Antonio Nunez
Office 702-671-6441
Mobile 702-818-9840
enunez@medicine.nevada.edu
Media invited to accompany tour of
new Clinical Simulation Center in Las Vegas
Center an initiative between the University of Nevada School of Medicine, UNLV School of Nursing and Nevada State College School of Nursing
WHAT: Las Vegas media are invited to a tour of the new Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas, a collaborative medical and nursing training facility for students of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, UNLV School of Nursing and Nevada State College School of Nursing.
WHEN: Tuesday, Oct. 13 from 10:15am-11:15am
WHERE: Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas, 1001 Shadow Lane, Las Vegas. Media are asked to enter at the Shadow Lane and Hastings Street entrance and proceed through the large circular drive into the parking area.
BACKGROUND: The University of Nevada School of Medicine and the UNLV and Nevada State College nursing schools now share a new space to train medical and nursing students in the 31,000-square-foot facility across from University Medical Center.
The center has dedicated space for standardized patient rooms, a surgical skills and simulation lab, clinical skills labs used for procedural training, a 12-person hospital ward, five rooms for high fidelity simulation accompanied by debriefing rooms, three 25 person classrooms, an 80 person lecture hall, faculty administrative space, a lounge, study rooms and storage.
It opened in late August 2009.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future. For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.