Sim Center Wins Education Award
September 1, 2016
The Independence Blue Cross Medical Simulation Center
at Drexel University College of Medicine was named
"Outstanding Education Partner" by the District 1199C
Training & Upgrading Fund. The award was presented to
Kathleen Ryan, MD, associate dean, Medical Education–
Simulation, at the Training Fund's graduation at the
Kimmel Center.
The Simulation Center regularly hosts students from the
STE(A)M* Scholars program at Roxborough High School,
which was developed by the District 1199C Training &
Upgrading Fund with a grant from the U.S. Department
of Health & Human Services. Each group of scholars (9th
graders, 10th graders, and so on) comes separately to
the Queen Lane Sim Center three times a year. There they
participate in patient-centered simulations and interact
with the high-fidelity manikins and standardized patients.
The Training Fund was created in 1974 by collective
bargaining agreements between 11 Philadelphia hospitals
and District 1199C of the National Union of Hospital &
Health Care Employees; it now involves 50 area healthcare
and human services employers. Its mission is to
provide access to career pathways in health care and
human services through context-based education and
training, annually serving more than 5,000 union
members and low-income residents.
*Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics