Our team kicked off our 2026 community series today at the @mcachicago steps! 🏥
✨We loved trading our simulation lab for the SOAR farmer's market, teaching hands-only CPR to fellow Chicagoans and watching hesitation turn into confidence. Hands-only training is a powerful first step, but we encourage everyone to keep the momentum going and get fully certified! 📜❤️
#CPRSavesLives #PatientSafety #CPRCertification #Chicago
Welcome our 6 new Gastroenterology & Hepatology Fellows! 👏They’re kicking off fellowship with a simulation-based mastery learning upper endoscopy bootcamp, applying the science of expertise and deliberate practice to build foundational endoscopic skills. Even more exciting—this training is taking place simultaneously with programs across the United States, advancing excellence in GI education nationwide.
This month, we came together to celebrate our incredible 170+ standardized patients! 🎉 These amazing individuals make medical education possible, and we honored them with pizza, brownies, games, and music. Thank you, SPs, for everything you do! 💙 #SPAppreciation#MedEd
Big things are happening at Northwestern Simulation! 🚀From cutting-edge research to med-ed innovation, check out our Quarterly for the trends transforming healthcare education.
Read it here: https://t.co/jLAbiX8LJA.
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No bones about it! Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine first year medical students are putting in the work during their Musculoskeletal Module in Outpatient Simulation.💀🩺 #NUMed
Feinberg’s fourth-year medical students recently celebrated Match Day with family and mentors as they learned where they’ll train for the next three to seven years as resident physicians: https://t.co/oSmlFKJEjE
Podcast:
The art and science of bedside medicine: Clinical skills, human connection, and modern challenges
Featuring Center director Brian Garibaldi, MD, MEHP
Faculty learning strategies & the challenges of delivering bedside medicine overnight
https://t.co/hA12QlPBom
Northwestern Simulation's Dr. Jafar Arash Mehr had the honor of presenting his work on using artificial intelligence to train surgeons on suturing skills at the American College of Surgeons Surgical Simulation Summit in Chicago.
Congratulations to the Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira surgical residents in Recife, Brazil who successfully completed central line insertion simulation-based mastery learning and fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery training. Special thanks to their surgery program director, Dr. Antonio Cavalcanti, for being such a gracious host!
Northwestern Simulation’s Drs. Jeffrey Barsuk and Eric Hungness teach attending surgeons how to use simulation-based mastery learning to teach their residents central venous catheter insertion and laparoscopic surgical skills at the Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira in Recife, Brazil. Special thanks to Simulab for their in-kind support of this event. @simulabcorp
@BedsideMedNU Director Brian Garibaldi, MD, MEHP, presenting work that came out of his 2017 ABMS Scholars program award at the ABMS Board meeting.
Joined by Grant Shafer, MD, CHOC Children's Hospital neonatologist, past ABMS scholar & current Society of Bedside Medicine Scholar
SAVE THE DATE!
The Second Annual Conference in Bedside Medicine will be Nov 13-14, 2025 in Chicago. Join international experts for physical exam and communication workshops with real patients to hone your bedside clinical & teaching skills.
Registration opens 5/1
#BedMed2026
Northwestern Simulation Faculty are hosting another successful "Designing and Implementing Simulation-based Mastery Learning" course! Participants are engaged in learning how to create robust curricula for procedures, team training, and communication! Dont miss out! Join us at our next course September, 2026. https://t.co/r3wsLX0bUg
Our next podcast is released today! Dr. Barsuk interviews Dr. Jayfus Doswell. Dr. Doswell has a PhD in Information Technology focused on artificial intelligence to improve human learning and performance. Drs. Barsuk and Doswell discuss how AI and virtual simulation can be used for training and assessment.
https://t.co/KSz7RZJwMV
Today, we successfully performed a mass casualty drill at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with over 50 patient actors to test our emergency response system. Congratulations to the planning team who spent months preparing to make this day successful. A special thank you to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students who volunteered!
While the world watched the Winter Olympics, the Outpatient Sim team was running its own endurance event: 6 hours/day testing our M2 students. And that's not even including all the other events going on!
They deserve gold. 🥇 Back at it Monday! #MedEd