Education & Research

Clinical Sites

Hartford Hospital (HH)
Founded in 1854, Hartford Hospital is one of the largest teaching hospitals and tertiary care centers in New England with perhaps the region’s busiest surgery practice and has been training physicians for over 150 years. It is a member of Hartford HealthCare, a large, diversified healthcare system.

Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC)
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center is a teaching hospital and home to the University of Connecticut School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and its residency program in pediatrics.  

Connecticut Children’s Surgery Center at Farmington
Connecticut Children’s Surgery Center at Farmington is an outpatient pediatric surgery center.  This enrichment pediatric clinical site is located 9 miles from Hartford Hospital and CCMC and 4.5 miles from CCSU.

St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT
St. Vincent’s Medical Center, a member of Hartford HealthCare, is a 473-bed tertiary care Catholic hospital serving a large population in Southern Connecticut. St. Vincent’s opened its doors as St. Vincent’s Hospital on June 28, 1905, and today, as one of the top Medical Centers in the region, SVMC provides comprehensive and advanced medical services.

Midstate Medical Center in Meriden, CT
Midstate Medical Center, also a member of Hartford HealthCare, is a 156-bed acute-care hospital and has been serving the communities of central Connecticut since 1998.

The Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain, CT 
The Hospital of Central Connecticut, a member of Hartford HealthCare, is a 446-bed, 32-bassinet acute-care community teaching hospital and general medical and surgical facility.

Center for Education and Simulation Innovation (CESI)
The Center for Education and Simulation Innovation at Hartford Hospital (CESI) is an ideal setting to begin to establish a culture of patient safety and open communication among the interdisciplinary team.

Its mission is to promote excellence in clinical care, advance patient safety and improve multidisciplinary team performance through high-fidelity medical simulation. Participants can train in a setting similar to his/her actual work environment that creates an atmosphere of realism. Working in this environment extends the simulator’s capabilities and allows for practice on multiple types of acute crises and patient care scenarios.

The first manikin was purchased through the Department of Anesthesia by Dr. Thomas Mort, who had the foresight to see the direct benefits to patient safety and healthcare provider education that human patient simulation could offer. Dr. Mort was the champion in establishing the first Simulation Center in the State of Connecticut in 1999. Since then, the Simulation Center has been renamed and expanded from its original 900 square feet to its new state-of-the-art regional training facility that is 40,000 square feet and covers 2 floors, now called CESI.

CESI expanded to 40,000 square feet and has 5 simulated clinical care environments each with its own control room, task trainers, lecture halls, classrooms, lounge areas, and a full cadaver lab.  CESI is one of only 20 centers that has been nationally recognized as a Center of Excellence by the Laerdal Corporation which made CESI a role model for other simulation centers nationwide.