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A team participates in a simulation exercise at STRATUS.
The Neil and Elise Wallace STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation was awarded accreditation as a Level 1 Comprehensive Education Institute by the American College of Surgeons, joining only about 50 other institutions in the world to receive this accreditation.
“This accreditation means that we have been recognized as an elite center,” said medical director Charles Pozner, MD, who leads the center with associate medical director Doug Smink, MD, MPH.
The American College of Surgeons’ Program for Education Institutes reviewed the center’s courses, equipment, curriculum and faculty development, and two surgeon reviewers spent a day meeting with staff and assessing the center.
Since opening in 2004, STRATUS has grown to four times its original size and recently expanded to encompass about 6,000 square feet in the Neville House. This interdisciplinary simulation center now is open to staff from departments across the hospital to sharpen skills and train for a multitude of medical and surgical presentations. STRATUS has two satellite medical simulation centers, one in Kazakhstan and another about to open in India.
This past year, the center recruited a director of Education, Sarah Peyre, EdD, who joined from the USC Department of OB/GYN. “We’re working with Sarah to validate our assessment tools, increase our research focus and bolster our curriculum,” Pozner said.
In December, STRATUS staff celebrated the formal naming of the center in honor of Neil and Elise Wallace, who have supported BWH for more than 30 years