CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine is cutting the ribbon Thursday on a new simulation center.
The Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute has exam rooms, inpatient rooms, and an operating room among its 28,000-square feet of space. Dr. Park said it'll help medical students to keep up with the latest advances.
"Healthcare is quickly changing, so yeah, you have to learn new skills as they come onto the market," she said.
Dr. Park compares the simulation training to what's regularly required in commercial aviation.
"We are going to have to do chest compressions, put a breathing tube in, and put in IVs that we would never want to happen on a real person, but that mannequin was voiced, through a microphone," Dr. Park said.
With two other new simulation centers on campus, UIC will offer more than 50,000 hours of such learning each year.