Simulation Center


November 19, 2018

Teens get ‘PhUn’ learning experience at UAMS

Spencer Watson

Students from Little Rock Central High School are surprised when a mannequin at the UAMS Simulation Center provides verbal feedback during their visit for Physiology Understanding ("PhUn") Day.

Nearly three dozen students in ninth through 12th grades from Little Rock Central High School visited the UAMS campus recently to participate in PhUn Day, organized by the UAMS Center for Diversity Affairs and the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the UAMS College of Medicine as part of the American Physiological Society’s national Physiology…


August 15, 2018

AR SAVES Uses Simulation to Teach Students about Stroke

Ben Boulden

MASH students visiting the UAMS Simulation Center roleplay diagnosing a stroke patient through the AR SAVES network.

Aug. 14, 2018 | Although the high school students in the UAMS Simulation Center this summer may not have been stroke doctors or nurses yet, they got a chance to play those roles on TV and learn to recognize stroke symptoms.


May 5, 2014

Interprofessional Student Teams Vie to Treat Simulated Patients

Ben Boulden

May 5, 2014 | “Sim Wars: The Manikin Strikes Back” competition opened to an enthusiastic audience of about 200 UAMS students and faculty with almost the same flair as “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” did in 1980.


March 13, 2014

UAMS Center for Dental Education Welcomes Senior Dental Students for Clinic Rotations

Ben Boulden

March 13, 2014 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Center for Dental Education is now hosting small groups of dental students from University of Tennessee College of Dentistry for two-week clinical rotations.


May 8, 2013

Interprofessional Student Teams Compete to Treat Simulated Patients

Ben Boulden

May 7, 2013 | Music from “Star Wars” filled a UAMS lecture hall May 2 as a Darth Vader-costumed emcee waved a light saber and opened the first Sim Wars competition to the cheers of about 200 students.


June 27, 2012

UAMS Names Anders Director of Simulation Center

Jon Parham

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Michael E. Anders, Ph.D., has been named director of Simulation Technology in the Simulation Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). </span>


March 31, 2011

UAMS Simulation Center Opens to Provide Hands-on Training

David Robinson

March 31, 2011 | The state’s only comprehensive adult medical Simulation Center with computerized, life-like manikins for hands-on training of students, faculty and staff opened today at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).


UAMS Simulation Center Opens to Provide Hands-on Training

David Robinson

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – The state’s only comprehensive adult medical Simulation Center with computerized, life-like manikins for hands-on training of students, faculty and staff opened today at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). </span>