Board 247 - Program Innovations Abstract The Mirror Technique

Introduction/Background Simulation is being used increasingly as a tool to assess new clinical spaces.1,2 In a tertiary pediatric center, in-situ simulation testing was essential to the conversion of a 24-bed combined pediatric/adult unit to a 33-bed pediatric emergency department (PED). A key challenge during the testing phase was to identify the best way to reflect both the patient and work flow in this dynamic, high turnover, clinical area. …