Parry Center for Clinical Skills & Simulation
FacilityThe Parry Center for Clinical Skills & Simulation is a state-of-the-art learning environment that allows collaboration among students and safely simulates real-patient experiences.
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1400 W. 22nd St.
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Parry Center for Clinical Skills & Simulation
The Parry Center for Clinical Skills & Simulation is a state-of-the-art learning environment that allows collaboration among students and safely simulates real-patient experiences. It is located in the lower level of the Health Science Center at 1400 W. 22nd Street in Sioux Falls.
Parking is available in the ramp to the west of our building, three-hour spaces in front of the building, the lots on the east side of Grange Avenue between 18th and 22nd Streets and a lot south on Covell Avenue.
The USD Parry Center for Clinical Skills & Simulation provides innovative, simulation-based education, research and performance assessment across the continuum of education for the USD Sanford School of Medicine, USD School of Health Sciences, affiliated residency programs, and partner health care providers . The Parry Center is actively involved in health care-related, simulation-based research to provide a safer and more effective education to students.
The Parry Center will:
- Be a leader in multidisciplinary skills and patient care training through the development, implementation and dissemination of innovative simulation curricula
- Expand current educational research in order to provide better training for future health care providers and to enhance quality of health care and patient safety in South Dakota
- Be a leader in health care education, simulation, research and innovation
Our Partners
University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine
Medical students gain valuable experience in communication, clinical and procedural skills before encountering real patients. Carefully scripted scenarios involving simulators and standardized patients provide a laboratory for regular practice, assessment and feedback specifically tailored to each student throughout their training. Students and faculty are able to review the educational events captured through the B-Line™ digital recordings system, which provides an unparalleled opportunity for study and improved performance.
University of South Dakota School of Health Sciences
Students from nursing, physician assistant studies, occupational and physical therapy, addiction counseling and prevention, and social work programs are given opportunities to practice within discipline-specific scenarios.
Graduate Medical Education
Residents specializing in surgery, pediatrics, internal medicine and family medicine are able to practice managing critical and rarely encountered events involving complex procedures on lifelike simulators without putting real patients at risk. Ethically challenging situations may be recreated through the use of standardized patient encounters.
Sioux Falls VA Health Care System
Personnel at the Sioux Falls VA Health Care System have access to the Center for training and teaching purposes of improving staff development and enhancement of health care for veterans.
Clinical Faculty
Clinical faculty can use the Center for peer evaluation of clinical skills as part of credentialing, remediation and continuing medical education.
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Behind the Technology, Operations of the Parry Center
Every learning session that occurs in the University of South Dakota’s Parry Center for Clinical Skills & Simulation requires substantial and meticulous preparation. At its simplest, detailed software must be configured for each encounter, and at its more complex, simulators and workstations need to all be synchronized with each other in a coordinated encounter.
The Journey of a Medical Student: Part Two
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