The Center for Advanced Medical Simulation (CAMS) is a system-wide accredited simulation center by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). Accredited in 2014, CAMS was one of the few institution-based accredited simulation centers in the USA at that time.
We designed the first Simulation Fellowship Program in New York City in 2007. CAMS Fellowship program has evolved into three innovative models: a two-week elective, a six-month and a twelve-month fellowship. Despite the differences in duration, growing future simulation leaders is central to the fellowship immersive core curriculum and dynamic clinical practice. More than half of the graduated Fellows hold leadership positions in academic medical centers with simulation medical education programs.
In 2017, CAMS pioneered the inaugural Tristate Regional Simulation Symposium in celebration of the first global simulation week declared by SSH. This inaugural celebration powerfully affirms the tristate region’s successes, opportunities, and myriad possibilities to be our best in what we do so well individually and collectively.
CAMS faculty members are active in SSH having served in the planning committee, 3 -12 accepted presentations in various formats in 2017, 2018, 2019 and an invited contributor to the SSH Certification Blueprint Review Reference Manual (2020). We continue to thrive in making learning live with the patient at its center and front.
