The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) invites your participation in Simulation Saturday, March 11, 2006. Simulation Saturday is a single-day, free-to-ASA members event taking place on Saturday, March 11, 2006 at simulation centers across the country. Developed by ASA to advertise its goal of facilitating simulation training for clinical practitioners, the event will introduce new methods of skill acquisition and refinement . Listed below are the web links to participating simulation centers. Each center will provide registration services, program content, and helpful logistical information. For specific information on the ASA Simulation Saturday project and/or ASA’s goals for simulation training, please contact Michael Olympio, MD, Chair, Simulation Workgroup. molympio@wfubmc.edu Listed below are web links to participating Simulation Saturday sites. Each site has information on its simulation program, plus information on registration. ASA’s Workgroup on Simulation Chair, Dr. Michael Olympio, presented a poster on the Workgroup’s activities at the recent International Meeting on Medical Simulation held in San Diego. Click poster to enlarge.
SIMULATION SATURDAY PARTICIPANTS
Duke University Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center http://simcenter.duhs.duke.edu/	University of Kentucky Department of Anesthesiology http://www.mc.uky.edu/anesthesiology/
Center for Medical Simulation http://www.harvardmedsim.org/	University of Miami Patient Safety Center PLEASE NOTE: This is a Sunday, March 12th Program http://anesthesiology.med.miami.edu
HealthPartners Simulation Center for Patient Safety Metropolitan State University St. Paul, MN Information and Registration by email at: jessie.nelson@metrostate.edu	University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Patient Simulation Center http://anesth.utmb.edu/simcenter/
Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology http://www.mssm.edu/anesthesiology/	Vanderbilt University Medical Simulation Center http://www.vusimcenter.org
Northwestern University Dept. of Anesthesiology Patient Safety Simulator Center	Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Patient Simulation Laboratory http://www1.wfubmc.edu/PatientSimLab/
Penn State College of Medicine Simulation Development & Cognitive Science Lab http://www.hmc.psu.edu/simulation/	University of Washington Department of Anesthesiology Seattle, Washington Registration: Please contact Dr. Howard Schwid at hschwid@u.washington.edu
Stanford University Simulation Center http://med.stanford.edu/VAsimulator/	West Virginia University School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology Medical Simulation Center http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/som/anesth/
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine http://www.anes.ucla.edu/simulator.html	WISER Peter M. Winter Inst. for Simulation Education and Research http://www.wiser.pitt.edu/Sites/WISER/news/2006/01/
University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology http://vam.anest.ufl.edu/events/simsaturday.php