Simulation specialist

Summary

Come join our talented Simulation team at MaineHealth! Our center is in Portland, Maine and serves the entire MaineHealth system.

We are a unique academic teaching hospital with simulation programming for :

• 300 Residents and fellows in more than 30 programs
• 120 Medical students from our MaineTrack program through Tufts University School of Medicine
• Inter-professional clinical teams from multiple service lines throughout MMC / MH
• Systems testing of clinical spaces and processes

The Sim Center facilitates more than 500 events and approximately 20,000 learner contact hours annually. The successful candidate will join a fast paced, high functioning team producing simulation events using high-fidelity manikins, Standardized Patients (SPs), task trainers with opportunities for virtual and augmented reality components.

Events occur in our 18,000-square foot sim center in Portland and in clinical spaces at MMC and across MH.

This part time, 20 hr / week position is vital for delivering highly realistic simulated clinical scenarios, including :

• Ensuring simulation equipment functionality aligns with stated scenario objectives
• Ensuring quality by collaborating with faculty before and after scenarios to revise scenario templates
• Preparing room set-ups and necessary manikin moulage and props in advance of scenarios
• Providing active patient voice and manikin programming during scenarios
• Transporting, setting up, and operating equipment for in-situ scenarios
• Collaborating with simulation staff to facilitate events that require multiple modalities
• Ensuring scheduled or unscheduled repair and maintenance of simulation equipment is completed
• Collaborating with simulation staff, IS department, and / or vendors to troubleshoot AV and simulation equipment
• Contributing to the Sim Center’s research efforts and strategic initiatives
• Serving as an instructor in faculty development activities
• Proctoring credentialing check-offs for providers

Comprehensive knowledge of anatomy and physiology; high degree of comfort with computer technology; high level interpersonal skills to work with clinicians and medical staff at all levels of medical care.

Last updated : 2024-07-04