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Recently, as part of its outreach to the Pittsburgh community, WISER donated audio equipment a number of local organizations.  This equipment was no longer needed at WISER due to technical upgrades of the audio systems in our simulation rooms. Local musical...

WISER is excited to welcome Dr. Nian Chen as a preceptor in our Visiting Scholars Program! Dr. Chen joins us from Jiangsu Province Hospital (First Affiliated Hospital associated with Nanjing Medical University) in China where she is an internist with a specialty in...

On April 6th, 2018, WISER Director of Operations Tom Dongilli hosted a tour of visiting physicians from Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Kazakhstan. As part of its ongoing collaborative efforts, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine hosts visiting...

WISER staff, course directors, course instructors, and various clinical educators from UPMC and Pitt were invited to demonstrations of RealMom (a birthing simulator by Operative Experience). Demonstrations were conducted in WISER?s Clinical Skills Center and WISER...

Recently WISER faculty were award the prestigious Rufus A. Lyman Award for the best paper published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.  The Lyman Award is the highest award in Pharmacy Education! The manuscript "Blended Simulation Progress...

WISER is hosting the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine?s 2nd Year Medical Students for their Clinical Procedures Course: Intravenous therapy.  During the course, the participants receive didactic and hands on practice with IV task trainers on the...

The Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER) of the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC has been re-accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare for a full five years. WISER successfully demonstrated compliance with the criteria and...

Recently, WISER hosted a group of delegates from the University Medical Centers (UMC), a collection of hospitals associated with Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan.  The delegates were participating in a program organized through UPMC International that...

Recently WISER conducted a trauma training scenario in the trauma bay in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital?s Emergency Department.  The course Director, Graciela Bauza, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, and Trauma Attending Physician...

WISER had the opportunity to participate in a course assessment activity at UPMC Presbyterian in the Department of Radiology.  This assessment was evaluating the patient care outcomes and long-term knowledge retention of participants who have taken in the...