Surgical & Interventional Training Center
The SITC features scalable facilities for tissue and animate exercise and is an ACS-Accredited Education Institute.
- Surgical Skills Labs
- One 21 station surgical skills lab
- Two 7 station labs, which can be combined into 14 stations
- Each station is fully boomed with complete patient-grade anesthetic, operating, and instrumentation capability for all specialties
- All stations are supported by an on-site tissue bank, accredited vivarium, washer and sterilizer
- 11 operating microscopes
- Imaging
- 4 C-arm fluoroscopes
- 64-slice CT scanner
- 2 ultrasound machines, to include endoscopic probes
- Complete operating rooms
- Hybrid catheterization and operating suit
- Trauma operating room
- Ability to change room conditions in sights, sound, and temperature to create different operating environments
- Robotics suite with three da Vinci robots
- A-V capabilities at 5 master stations
- Complete lab and room A-V connectivity
- Two classrooms, seating 36 and 18 (classroom style), and one conference room, seating 10 (board room style)
Education Center
The EC promotes education through interactive conferencing capabilities.
- 200-person, semicircular, tiered auditorium, hard-wired for satellite video-conferencing, audience response system, digital recording and high-speed internet access with Wi-Fi and direct connection capabilities
- 4 adjacent classrooms
- Removable airwall merges two classrooms
- Flexible seating in three classroom
- Amphitheater-style, tiered fixed classroom (seating 45)
- Executive board room (seating 38)
- Break-out space for social networking
- Dining space for 230
- Catering kitchen
- Exhibit space
- Built-in registration desk
- Meeting planner office
Virtual Patient Care Center
The VPCC leverages simulation technology that assists health
professionals to improve their clinical skills in a risk-free environment.
Accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.
- Expertise in simulation-based curriculum development
- 6 standardized patient exam rooms
- 5 large team training rooms
- 3 debriefing rooms
- 8 individual training rooms (partial task and virtual trainers)
- Audiovisual recording of simulated scenarios for debriefing
- Partial task trainers in airway, central line placement, lumbar puncture, trauma resuscitation and diagnostic ultrasound
- Surgical simulators for endoscopic, laparoscopic, interventional vascular, urologic
and gynecologic procedures - High-fidelity human patient (adult, pediatric, and neonatal), combat casualty and birthing simulators
- Standardized patients
- Computer lab
- Expert debriefers
- Customized training of interprofessional teams
- Virtual inpatient pharmacy, including dedicated space for order entry, unit dose medication preparation, and sterile compounding
- Virtual outpatient pharmacy, including dedicated space for order entry, medication preparation and compounding, patient counseling, and point-of-care testing
- Pharmacogenomics Clinical Training Center located within the virtual pharmacy
- Adaptable space to create a variety of healthcare settings: clinics, intensive care units, newborn nurseries, labor and delivery suites, emergency rooms, and inpatient wards
Tampa Bay Research & Innovation Center
TBRIC brings together clinical faculty, engineers, computer scientists, management experts, human factors psychologists, and industry partners to find solutions through technology and systems for important healthcare challenges.
- Engineering development of advanced medical technologies, devices and simulators, with capabilities in computer-aided design and analysis, 3D printing and rapid prototyping, computer numerical controlled machining, electronics fabrication, and system integration and testing
- Medical device accelerator program and health technology assessment services, to enhance efficient and cost-effective development and commercialization of innovative medical technologies and products
- Modeling and simulation to generate advanced anatomical and analytical models, medical device and tissue factor analysis, development of innovative medical training systems and outcomes assessment
- Medical systems engineering to evaluate the effectiveness of medical technologies and devices, healthcare systems, and medical and surgical training programs, to promote effective and efficient healthcare delivery
- Human factor analysis of medical technologies and devices, and the simulated medical training environment, to improve the safety and efficiency of clinical care
- Innovative clinical education curriculum design, utilizing advanced simulators and high-tech assessment tools to assess skills accurately and improve outcomes