CHIPS- Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation

The Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation (CHIPS) is a 45,000 square foot stand-alone building for healthcare simulation and interprofessional education. The state-of-the-art facility opened in 2018 and is designed to meet the simulation needs of all UTHSC students, residents, professional staff, and clinical partners. CHIPS is dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare delivery through education, research, assessment and enhanced clinical skills with standardized patients (actors trained to portray patients), high-fidelity patient simulators (manikins), and virtual reality settings. CHIPS serves residents and students from the six colleges at UTHSC – Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Health Professions, Nursing, Medicine, and Pharmacy – to train together in simulation settings to develop their skills in delivering team-based health care, which is the proven model for the highest-quality care today. Using the high-tech manikins, standardized patients, and simulated settings, CHIPS offers state-of-the-art training under the safest conditions possible.