Spotlight: Center for Advanced Practice
The Russell C. Klein MD Center for Advanced Practice (CAP) opened in 2008 and serves as a state-of-the-art training facility for healthcare learners at multiple career stages. It also welcomes groups of all ages and skill levels every day, serving to increase enthusiasm for and interest in the sciences and promote LSUHSC New Orleans as a regional leader in simulation training and education. On any given day, the Center might be hosting a local elementary school, a government dignitary, medical students, specialty residents, community physicians, or industry leaders. A small sampling of activity over the last several months includes:
U.S. Senator John Kennedy toured the Learning Center with students Jacob Duplantis,
Cassidy Nguyen and Ngan Tran, who demonstrated the high-fidelity simulators and how
skills are incorporated into the medical school curriculum.
Anesthesia faculty member Dr. Stephanie Guzman created and led the LSUHSC New Orleans
Anesthesia Intern Boot Camp which took place on Thursdays in July. The hands-on simulation
focuses on training procedural skills in a safe environment for the seven new anesthesia
residents just starting their anesthesia clinical years. During the boot camp, residents
become acclimated with intubation, IV placement, ultrasound guided procedures including
IVs, central lines, and nerve blocks, and neuraxial anesthesia.
Dr. Peter Krause, Professor, Elaine A. Dore Endowed Chair in Orthopedics and Vice Chairman of the department of orthopaedic surgery, designed an Orthopedic Grand Rounds and Simulation Cadaveric Wet Lab to provide residents, students and faculty with an amazing day of orthopedic trauma training. Stryker provided support for the grand rounds. (images, below)
Dr. John Morrison hosted a best-in-class Surgery Boot Camp for all PGY-1 surgery residents
to welcome them to New Orleans. The event was supported by industry partners including
Medtronic, Ethicon, Boston Scientific, Baxter, Intuitive, Fuji, and Steris Endoscopy.
Over the three-day course, residents received skills training for ultrasound guided
biopsies, utilizing turkey breasts with implanted olives. Latex tubing filled with
simulated blood was also inserted into turkey breasts to provide experience with simulated
ultrasound-guided Seldinger techniques. Simulated skin, used by tattoo artists for
dedicated practice, was combined with air conditioning filter material to mimic intercostal
muscles, with blue tarp material simulating parietal pleura affixed to skeleton models
allowed learners to practice chest tube placement.
The Center hosted nearly 700 family members of L-1 medical students in conjunction
with the school’s annual Family Day. Students walked their parents and extended family
members through the simulation labs where they provided care for simulated patients,
practiced their surgical task training skills, listened to heart and lung sounds,
tried out a surgical assisted robot and enjoyed up-close views of anatomy models.
Local schools are frequent visitors to the Center including:
Mt. Carmel Academy, a Cognia STEM certified school, visited the Learning Center with
62 students who had the opportunity to listen to heart and lung sounds and to determine
if the simulated patient had experienced a stroke.
Audubon Charter School - Gentilly campus also toured the Learning Center with 60 students
who also listened to heart and lung sounds using a smartscope and had to determine
whether the sounds were normal or abnormal. After determining that the lung sound
was abnormal, they had to consider possible illnesses and diagnoses.
Nine LSU - Alexandra pre-med students toured the campus and met with the Dean Dr.
Richard DiCarlo.