at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 53669
Department: MED-NU Simulation
Salary/Grade: NEX/15
Job Summary:
The Northwestern Simulation (NU SIM) is a state-of-the-art educational service center within the Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM) Department of Medical Education. Our mission is to provide exceptional simulation-based education to improve patient care while transforming healthcare through education, innovation, and research. NU SIM serves all FSM learners, including undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, physician assistant, physical therapy, and continuing medical education. Additionally, NU SIM partners with external clients and affiliates to further its educational mission.
The Simulation Engineer performs complex technical work and supervises select staff within NU SIM. The Engineer operates and maintains simulation equipment for experiential learning activities. The Engineer will collaborate with the Manager oversees survey data collection for outcomes of programs and clinical scenarios and aggregate data for analysis and budget preparation. The Engineer maintains an inventory of center equipment and supplies and sets up video conferences, audio-visual, and/or video recording or streaming technology to accompany training sessions. They will serve as the lead technician for in-situ simulations at affiliated hospitals. The incumbent will audit, test, and ensure all equipment and systems run efficiently according to current specification requirements and keeps abreast of new releases and updates to equipment and products. The Engineer will recommend enhancements to the simulation environment, such as manikins, task trainers, and related simulation technologies
Specific Responsibilities:
Programs
- Operates simulation equipment to provide experiential learning programs (UME, GME, CME, Non-CME).
- Organizes and prepares spaces, equipment, and supplies for simulation experiential learning and virtual reality sessions and cleans up after training sessions.
- Programs equipment to reproduce realistic clinical scenarios and makes complex manipulations to programming and equipment in real-time during training sessions based on trainee actions and/or faculty preferences.
- Prepares and distributes all needed supplies to participants for experiential
- learning sessions and collects unused supplies at end of the session.
- Describes the functions of simulation equipment and conducts room orientations in support of educational sessions.
- Assembles task trainers and prepares for use.
- Prepares and operates medical equipment including ventilators, monitors, defibrillators, anesthesia machines, ultrasound machines, and ot
