Accessibility Options:
The Broward College Health Sciences Simulation Center (HSSC), located in Davie, Florida, USA, is a state-of-the-art educational facility that models a hospital setting. It is designed to provide students with a safe learning environment where they transfer their understanding of theory into hands-on practice. The HSSC provides the opportunity for students to practice in realistic simulations, the development of decision-making skills, the reduction of errors, and the improvement of communication and teamwork.
The goal of the HSSC is to provide medical situations and scenarios that will help healthcare students master their skills through immersive simulation experiences. The HSSC is operated by Dr. Lilia Chavarria, Associate Vice Provost, Broward College.
As the largest provider of higher education programs in Broward County, Broward College is committed to fostering and achieving success for all students. The College has been recognized by the Aspen Institute three times consecutively as one of the nation’s top ten Community Colleges of Excellence for its outstanding commitment to student success and equitable student outcomes.
The HSSC provides quality, interprofessional, experiential learning, utilizing innovative curriculum, comprehensive clinical preparation, and modern collaborative health care simulation practices in a technologically advanced facility.
Cultivate interdisciplinary groups with critical thinking that value a culture of patient safety while developing simulation leaders in various health science disciplines. Develop and collaborate educational research activities using a team-based approach that focuses on advancements in patient safety and communication.
To create a safe learning and constructive debriefing environment for the participant, strict confidentiality of what transpires on both a clinical and interpersonal level throughout the exercise fosters a psychologically safe environment.
Our 66,000-square-foot, high-tech HSSC occupies the first and second floors. The Center mirrors an acute care hospital with an ambulance bay providing an emergency transport area, medical evaluation, and intake areas. The ambulance bay features a working ambulance vehicle where students offload patients into the ER triage room for treatment or admission to one of nine individual hospital or clinic-type rooms.
Rooms include:
Facility features:
The HSSC features a large auditorium space located on the ground floor with a seating capacity of 109. It can host a variety of events from conferences, and live simulations on the front stage to broadcasting webinars, or showing films with surround sound.
Broward College Healthcare Simulation Center continues to strive in bringing cutting-edge technology to our students. We are proud to announce that the college has acquired anatomical imaging Anatomage Tables for students to learn accurate real anatomical human structures. The Anatomage Table is the most technologically advanced 3D anatomy visualization and virtual dissection tool for anatomy and physiology education. The HSSC has already integrated this powerful learning tool enhancing the simulations and training.
Our state-of-the-art mannequin family simulators are all very human-like with blinking eyes, chest movement, heart and lung sounds, blood pressure, pulses, and a computerized EKG tracing.
The HSSC is proud to have the latest in advanced learning simulators, Victoria® S220, an Obstetric MR, or mixed reality training mannequin. This brings digital learning content into the physical simulation exercise, allowing participants to link knowledge and skill through an entirely new hands-on training experience. The future of labor and delivery simulation has arrived at the simulation center.
Laerdal-SonoSim Ultrasound Solution is integrated into the Laerdal patient simulator platform, starting with the SimMan family and SimMom. Diagnostic ultrasound includes real ultrasound cases with pathological findings with full-scale simulations. Ultrasound is a safe, portable, and non-invasive way to gain clinically relevant information.
The Cardiovascular Suite has three Harvey Cardiopulmonary Simulators that train students in bedside cardiovascular assessment skills. It:
Victoria is the Obstetric MR, the next-generation of mixed reality training mannequins. Using the latest technology in holographic visualization, this Obstetric MR brings digital learning content into the physical simulation exercise.
SimMan 3G is able to display a wide range of physiological and neurological symptoms as well as pharmacological responses for over 145 drugs.
Easily expand your simulation training or tailor it for specialists including:
SimMan 3G Trauma is specifically designed to meet military needs for a quality, mobile simulation solution that can adapt to unique training environments and meet all educational objectives. Rugged and reliable, it can facilitate diverse and versatile patient scenarios—from an emergency in a remote location, to a war-torn battlefield, to a busy hospital unit.
SimMom obstetrical simulator is designed to build skills competence in specific obstetrical clinical procedures as well as optimizing effective team performance and communication skills during both routine and complicated births. SimMom can be fitted with a non-gravid abdominal skin to expand the scope of your simulation training. Practice both early stage, first trimester obstetrical care as well as non-pregnant general women’s health care and clinical assessments.
Harvey has been a proven simulation system to teach bedside cardiac assessment skills that transfer to real patients. Join more than 50 countries worldwide using Harvey to train the next generation of health care providers. Help your students meet milestones and benchmarks to save lives.
Pediatric HAL® is the world's most advanced pediatric patient simulator and the first capable of simulating lifelike emotions through dynamic facial expressions, movement, and speech.
SUPER Tori is the first newborn simulator developed to meet the challenges of neonatal care specialist training in real environments. Active movement, true ventilator support, real patient monitoring, and all-day battery life.
Tetherless simulator technology allows the communications, compressor, and power supply to be inside HAL®, eliminating external tubes, wires, and compressors. HAL® operates continuously during transport and training can occur in the working environment. Rush HAL® from the accident scene to the ER, to the ICU, while care providers diagnose and treat his condition using real monitoring and resuscitation equipment. Control HAL® at distances up to 900 feet (300 m) and between rooms and floors of conventional buildings. HAL® smoothly transitions between physiologic states in response to commands from a wireless PC.
The TraumaMan® System is the most widely used surgical simulator in the world.
CentraLineMan® System is the most widely used Central Venous Catheterization training solution in the market today.
Safely master critical techniques for spinal epidural insertion and catheterization with Simulab’s easy-to-use, ultrasound-guided Lumbar Epidural Trainer and Lumbar Puncture Trainers.
Ultrasound Training Solution into the Laerdal patient simulator platform, starting with the SimMan family and SimMom. This means you can now include diagnostic ultrasound featuring real ultrasound cases with pathological findings into full-scale simulations.
Dr. Lilia Chavarria, EdD, CHSE, RT (R) (CT) (MR), CSBI
Associate Vice Provost
Dr. Chavarria is a tenured faculty at Broward College who previously served as the program director for the Radiography Program. She holds a doctorate degree in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis in Health Care Administration, a master’s degree in Health Sciences, and a bachelor’s degree in Radiologic Sciences. Dr. Chavarria worked in the hospital and outpatient standing facilities in different modalities such as Radiography, Interventional Imaging, CT and MR and served as clinical instructor for 14 years in several hospitals in South Florida.
Barbara Genader
Simulation Specialist
Prior to becoming a simulation specialist for Broward College, Ms. Genader served as faculty member with the Radiography program for 25 years. Throughout her career, she has worked as an Interventional and Cath Lab technologist, Orthopedics and Radiography technologist. She holds a certificate in Effective College Instruction through The Association of College and University Educators and The American Council on Education. At the Simulation Center, Ms. Genader enjoys applying moulage for various simulations, and better yet, disaster scenarios. She also takes on the role of standardized patient (SP) for scenario’s as domestic violence, human trafficking, BPPV and stroke.
Carolina Hoyos
Simulation Specialist
Mrs. Hoyos is a registered nurse and Broward College nursing alumni. After graduating she worked in the stepdown intensive care unit and the operating room. She has certifications in NIH Stroke, Periop 101 and ONS Chemotherapy Immunotherapy. At the Simulation Center, Mrs. Hoyos enjoys working with the nursing students in simulations, practicing skills and giving them insight as an alumni and as a nurse at the hospital.
Roberto Perez-Diaz, MD
Senior Simulation Specialist
Dr. Perez-Diaz is a dedicated trained physician whose career spans multiple continents and specialties, reflecting his deep commitment to patient care. He earned his medical degree from the University of Jose Assed Yara, where he specialized in Family Medicine. Dr. Diaz then moved to the United States, where he shifted his focus to medical education and healthcare simulation. His work in this field combines his passion for patient education with his extensive clinical experience, helping to shape innovative training programs that emphasize a holistic approach to patient care and patient safety.
Mitchell Erbs
Simulation Specialist
Mitchell is a State of Florida Paramedic and a Nationally Certified Emergency Medical Technician. He works at Broward College as a Simulation Technology Specialist focusing on paramedic level skills, running a vast variety of simulation cases. He is great when it comes to troubleshooting and manikin repairs.
SSH (Society for Simulation in Healthcare)
Broward College is an SSH Accredited Program in the areas of teaching/education. SSH Accreditation is a peer-reviewed, customized evaluation of your healthcare simulation program. SSH is the largest healthcare simulation accrediting body in the world.
Dr. Chavarria is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator® (CHSE®) and currently serves as the Vice Chair of, the Patient Safety, and Simulation Collaborative Affinity Group for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH).
Phone: 866-730-6127
Email: accreditation@ssih.org
Contact
Broward College Professors
To schedule a simulation with your class please fill out the Simulation Event Request form.
Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Evening and weekend hours by appointment only.
Dr. Lilia Chavarria, District Director, Health Sciences Simulation Center
A. Hugh Adams Central Campus
Building 1008 (west side of campus)
3501 Davie Road
Davie, FL 33314
Parking is available in the parking garage across from the Sim Center.
