The Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation (YCHS) is under the Office of Medical Education. The simulation center is available to all members of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS). Its mission is to provide excellent patient care through innovative medical education, assessment, research, systems integration, and outreach. The state-of-the-art center strives to provide members of the healthcare communities with an ideal learning environment that fosters self-reflection, mutual respect, and an integrated, interdisciplinary team spirit in order to optimize healthcare delivery and engender a culture committed to patient safety. The YCHS promotes the acquisition of basic and advanced clinical skills that are essential for healthcare providers to master for both supervised and independent practice. It also offers a variety of simulation-based systems analysis services in order to apply simulation strategies to new facility design and testing, perform environmental and workflow analysis, and integrate new systems into an already complex healthcare system. The simulation center contributes to the YNHHS/YSM research mission by identifying more effective educational methods and evaluation tools as well as using simulation technology to answer the most pressing issues in healthcare. The YCHS is also committed to providing educational research opportunities to all members of the Yale healthcare community.

Located at 728 and 730 Howard Avenue, YCHS is fully accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare in all five categories: education, assessment, research, fellowship, and systems integration. The YSM Simulated Participant program is part of Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation.

For more information, visit https://medicine.yale.edu/md-program/special-programs/healthcare-simulation.