Quick Links

- The SIM Group Website

- Center for Medical Simulation

- COMETS: Autonomous Casualty Simulator

- Boston Globe: Make a mistake, and this mannequin dies in battle.
Dr. Steve Dawson and his team are creating a dummy that will die if you don't treat it right.


- NECN: Dr. Steve Dawson, Simulation Program create simulated patients for Army trauma medical training

- Simulation lab receives $2 million grant

-VIRGIL, device developed in Simulation Program, lauded by Army general

 


The Simulation Group received the Edward M. Kennedy Award for Health Care Innovation at CIMIT's 5th Annual Stakeholder Briefing

 

 

 

“COMETS is the only project that I have had my hands on since I left the operational world that I believe will actually make a significant impact in trauma training for the Army.”

- MAJ Jeffrey S. Cain, MD

 




Program Leader: Steven Dawson, MD

CIMIT’s Simulation Program is creating high-tech machinery to use in training medical practitioners and caregivers. Patient care provided will be safer, whether it’s provided by the battlefield medic, the hospital resident, or the experienced surgeon learning a new procedure.

Clinical Problem: Provide realistic training tools so inexperienced clinicians without need to practice painful, risky procedures on patients, and can improve skills and reduce medical errors.

CIMIT Solutions:

The Simulation group’s work has created a suite of training prototypes. Although its support comes from the Department of Defense, they have designed each system for maximal use capability to increase the impact across the healthcare continuum to include civilians as well; the team has created prototypes for both combat casualty care and dual use trainers for non-traumatic conditions, including:

To provide more varied training in more disciplines, the SIM Group is working on a generalized endovascular training system that will permit catheter-therapy training for radiologists, cardiologists, vascular surgeons and others who perform minimally invasive vascular therapies.

The SIM Group continues to draw upon multidisciplinary expertise to design and develop medical simulators. Their work makes possible a new era of medical practice when students, residents, and physicians will “practice medicine” without putting patients at risk.