About SYN:APSE
Mission
The SYN:APSE Team strives to provide members of the Yale-New Haven Health System with an ideal learning environment that fosters self-reflection, mutual respect, and an integrated, interdisciplinary team spirit, in order to optimize healthcare delivery and engender a culture committed to patient safety.
The SYN:APSE Advantage
SYN:APSE features four state-of-the-art interactive simulation suites, multimedia class & conference rooms, and a full-service mobile simulation system. 
Our simulation center employs a comprehensive array of advanced high-fidelity patient simulators and partial task trainers, as well as a sophisticated audio-visual system to capture real-time simulation events for review and debriefing.
What is Healthcare Simulation?
Simulation is a technique - not a technology - to replace or amplify real experiences with guided experiences that evoke or replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully interactive manner. DM Gaba
At SYN:APSE, simulation is used to create an interactive learning environment where participants can safely practice high-acuity, low frequency clinical events without risk. These simulations may involve multidisciplinary healthcare providers (e.g. paramedics, nurses, or physicians) working together to improve interdisciplinary teamwork behaviors, communication, and crisis resource management skills.
Why use Healthcare Simulation?
Learning by experience can be limited by the rarity of many important but uncommon clinical conditions and events. The use of high-fidelity computerized patient simulators that can talk, breathe, and react to human interventions, permits valuable opportunities for standardized learning in a safe, protected environment at virtually any time. Few other educational opportunities in healthcare are as flexible or risk-free.
Case-based simulation exercises provide learners with an opportunity to interview, examine, diagnose, and treat simulated patients in a variety of medical applications, from pediatrics and OB-GYN, to anesthesiology and emergency medicine. By engaging learners in case-based exercises, simulation can foster the development of complex thought and decision-making skills relevant to each learner's field, while cultivating the development of teamwork behaviors and communication skills among multi-disciplinary learners.
Simulation also affords our learners the opportunity to practice and develop expertise in many practical procedures, including endotracheal intubation, tube thoracostomy, cricothyroidotomy, central venous cannulation, intraosseous cannulation, and lumbar puncture.