UC Riverside Center for Simulated Patient Care

UC Riverside Center for Simulated Patient Care Innovative medical simulation education built through joyful collaboration using evidence-based practice and productive failure models

“Using simulation to improve safety, quality and education in healthcare." Medical simulation is a technological education innovation; it embodies advanced technology and a trailblazing approach to medical education that transcends the basic learning styles of adult students. Simulations are based on actual clinical events and generally employ learning tools that can range from practicing injectio

ns on oranges to very sophisticated scenarios utilizing high technology computer driven human patient simulators. In the postsecondary and continuing education of healthcare professionals, medical simulation is recognized as a basic teaching resource. It reduces pressure on already limited access to live clinical exposures, increases confidence of learners, improves patient safety, and adds rigor to the credentialing and precepting process. The Center for Medical Simulation and Research (CMSAR) exists to fulfill the requirements and demands of this emerging standard. To that end, CMSAR must exist as a full-time enterprise, must be championed and assimilated by an experienced leader, and must be positioned to design and employ, as well as reject, new and inventive methods of presenting the varied components of clinical competency and the diverse aspects of medical education.

So much fun meeting student groups, community members, and prospective med students at UCR School of Medicine Open House...
04/11/2026

So much fun meeting student groups, community members, and prospective med students at UCR School of Medicine Open House today!

Exciting Match Day 2026 for us at the CSPC! Dr. Javed, who has been working with our team for the last two years, just m...
03/20/2026

Exciting Match Day 2026 for us at the CSPC! Dr. Javed, who has been working with our team for the last two years, just matched into the Family Medicine Residency Valley Health team program in Fresno. Congratulations, Dr. Javed!

Valentine's Day Staff Potluck at School of Medicine
02/10/2026

Valentine's Day Staff Potluck at School of Medicine

Happy holidays!
12/18/2025

Happy holidays!

10/15/2025

The School of Medicine was pleased to welcome Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez (AD-36) today. He took a tour of the SOM Education Building II and met with VC and Dean Deborah Deas, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor David Lo, MD, PhD, and Chair of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health Mark Wolfson, PhD.

Also pictured are SOM Chief of Staff Katherine Browder, Assistant Director of Advocacy & Institutional Relations Denise Davis, and Executive Analyst & Assistant to the AVC of GCR Alexandra Leon

10/15/2025

Join us tomorrow for a candid panel with Standardized Patients (SPs) as they share real stories, challenges, and insights from their work shaping medical education. Be sure to register at the link below.

🗓️ Oct 14 | 12–1 PM ET
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/mtu6fyyb

09/21/2025

Join us for the first of 3 conversations on Professional Resilience, starting with Essentialism by Greg McKeown. As demands grow and resources shrink, let’s refocus on what truly matters—for our learners, teams, and our own well-being.
Oct 23, 2025
1:00–2:30 PM ET
Register: https://tinyurl.com/mwnbvky2 (edited)

09/21/2025

Get Ready for ASPE Accreditation!
Join us for a webinar on October 8, 2025, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET and learn key strategies for a successful ASPE Accreditation application, including insights into the structure, self-study process, and how the SOBP guides your submission.
Prepare for the 2026 cycle – opening October 2025!
Presented by F. Shawn Galin, PhD
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/2s3rnrr9

09/21/2025

Healthcare Simulation Week 2025 is ROCKING! Hundreds of organizations & professionals - ACROSS SIX CONTINENTS - are loud and proud this week celebrating the work you do! Nearly 80 events are on our calendar - so if you're, you know, looking for something fun, check it out!

See the calendar & get on the map: https://www.ssih.org/healthcare-simulation-week-2025

Way to go, Jocelyn!
06/15/2025

Way to go, Jocelyn!

Congratulations to UCR School of Medicine Class of 2027 student Joslyn Santana on being named a recipient of the 2025 National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) Medical Student of the Year Award. The award was presented at the annual NHMA Conference on June 5-7, 2025.

The award recognizes academic excellence, leadership, and unwavering commitment to serving the Latino community through medicine. Santana has been heavily involved in serving the Hispanic community since her days as an undergraduate student.

Santana was nominated by Liliana Casas, MD, her LACE preceptor and a physician at Kaiser Permanente Indian Hills.

View from outside the CSPC today...
02/18/2025

View from outside the CSPC today...

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