Other hospitals may have simulation centers, but the level of training we provide separates us and makes us one of the leading places to train. Using the Simulation Center’s lifelike, computer-controlled manikins, members of the 357 th Army Reserve unit were able to practice treating war zone-like injuries with techniques such as intubations, applying tourniquets, suturing wounds, and using an ultrasound to assess gunshot or stab wounds. Wilson, MD, David Hampton, MD, Nicholas Jaszczak, MD, and Timothy Plackett, DO, MPH. The training sessions were led by four UChicago Medicine trauma doctors who also served in the military: Kenneth L. Army and the University of Chicago Medicine brought 20 Army medics and advanced practice nurses to the hospital’s Simulation Center on April 9 to practice their emergency trauma skills.
