Simulation Program: OB-GYN Residency Program

ICAMS and ASTEC

The Inova Center for Advanced Medical Simulation (ICAMS) is a 12,000 square foot state-of-the-art simulation center that serves the Inova Health System in advancing patient care through interprofessional education of healthcare workers. Since opening in 2015, the ICAMS has seen hundreds of nurses, physicians, residents, medical students and allied healthcare workers pass through its doors. They come to learn, prepare, advance, research and innovate healthcare practice in a center that looks like any of our hospital rooms; NICU, ICU, LDR, OR, ED, inpatient and outpatient rooms. The ICAMS encourages experimentation, repeated practice and potential error detection in a safe learning environment through technologically advanced instructional methods.

The partner perioperative center is Inova's Advanced Surgical Technology and Education Center (ASTEC), which provides surgeons, surgical residents and surgical teams unsurpassed real-time surgical training and education to improve skills, allow for observation and evaluation, and provide teambuilding opportunities to benefit patient care and safety. The 6,900-square-foot facility, which opened in June 2014, combines a classroom and a large centralized skills training area with a high-fidelity operating room environment, including pre-operative and post-anesthesia care unit bays, two functional endoscopic ORs and state-of-the-art observation and recording capabilities.