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Northwestern Simulation's Dr. Jafar Arash Mehr had the honor of presenting his work on using artificial intelligence to train surgeons on suturing skills at the American College of Surgeons Surgical Simulation Summit in Chicago.

The envelopes are open! Congratulations to the Feinberg graduating Class of 2026 — your next chapter in medicine starts now. #Match2026

Congratulations to the Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira surgical residents in Recife, Brazil who successfully completed central line insertion simulation-based mastery learning and fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery training. Special thanks to their surgery program director, Dr. Antonio Cavalcanti, for being such a gracious host!

Northwestern Simulation’s Drs. Jeffrey Barsuk and Eric Hungness teach attending surgeons how to use simulation-based mastery learning to teach their residents central venous catheter insertion and laparoscopic surgical skills at the Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira in Recife, Brazil. Special thanks to Simulab for their in-kind support of this event. @simulabcorp

@BedsideMedNU Director Brian Garibaldi, MD, MEHP, presenting work that came out of his 2017 ABMS Scholars program award at the ABMS Board meeting. Joined by Grant Shafer, MD, CHOC Children's Hospital neonatologist, past ABMS scholar & current Society of Bedside Medicine Scholar

SAVE THE DATE! The Second Annual Conference in Bedside Medicine will be Nov 13-14, 2025 in Chicago. Join international experts for physical exam and communication workshops with real patients to hone your bedside clinical & teaching skills. Registration opens 5/1 #BedMed2026

Northwestern Simulation Faculty are hosting another successful "Designing and Implementing Simulation-based Mastery Learning" course! Participants are engaged in learning how to create robust curricula for procedures, team training, and communication! Dont miss out! Join us at our next course September, 2026. feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/simulati…

Our next podcast is released today! Dr. Barsuk interviews Dr. Jayfus Doswell. Dr. Doswell has a PhD in Information Technology focused on artificial intelligence to improve human learning and performance. Drs. Barsuk and Doswell discuss how AI and virtual simulation can be used for training and assessment. spreaker.com/episode/podcas…

Today, we successfully performed a mass casualty drill at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with over 50 patient actors to test our emergency response system. Congratulations to the planning team who spent months preparing to make this day successful. A special thank you to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students who volunteered!

While the world watched the Winter Olympics, the Outpatient Sim team was running its own endurance event: 6 hours/day testing our M2 students. And that's not even including all the other events going on! They deserve gold. 🥇 Back at it Monday! #MedEd

It was a busy week in Northwestern Simulation’s Inpatient Simulation. We trained oncology nurses in goals of care conversations, surgery residents in vascular anastomoses, medical students in patient acuity and handoffs, and much more. @JuliaVermylen @mariannegreen63 @numsdoc

Congratulations to the Nurse Education Coordinators at Northwestern Memorial Hospital who recently completed a workshop on feedback and coaching in simulation-based mastery learning at Northwestern Simulation. Thank you to Drs. Barsuk and Salzman who led the workshop!

Northwestern Simulation's Dr. David Salzman presents a workshop on checklist development with Drs. Jeffrey Barsuk and Mark Adler at IMSH 2026 in San Antonio. The attendees created and tested their checklists designed to assess peanut butter and jelly sandwich making skills.

Northwestern Simulation's Drs. Barsuk, Salzman, and Hungness and Manager Danny Cronin present our experience implementing mass casualty simulations for Northwestern Memorial Hospital at IMSH 2026, San Antonio. @numsdoc

Northwestern Simulation is at IMSH 2026 in San Antonio! Visit our Booth #345 to explore our cutting-edge clinical and surgical education facilities, dynamic faculty developments, and exciting innovations collaboratives. Come test your suturing skills with markerless computer vision and AI-based feedback.

In our next podcast, released today, Dr. Barsuk interviews Dr. Martin Pusic, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pusic serves as Director of the American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation. Drs. Barsuk and Pusic talk about research in medical education and initiatives at the ABMS to further competency-based residency programs. spreaker.com/episode/podcas…