MedStar Health’s Simulation Training & Education Lab serves as the system’s main education infrastructure, supporting more than 35,000 physicians, nurses and other associates. As part of the MedStar Institute for Innovation, a team of more than 100 professionals delivers education consultation, program development, technical support and program delivery across in-person training, interactive online modules, high-fidelity simulation and continuing professional education, including tools leveraging AI. In fiscal year 2025, the lab supported more than 1.4 million online learning completions and more than 53,500 learners through hundreds of learning modules developed annually with system subject matter experts. The lab operates four regional simulation centers with simulated operating rooms and high-fidelity training bays, and deploys a 40-foot mobile simulation lab featuring simulated patient rooms, control stations and a debriefing area to reach MedStar’s 10 hospitals and regional care sites. In fiscal year 2025, simulation learner volume increased by more than 5%, and advanced practice provider-focused simulation training rose by 85% compared to the prior fiscal year. The system’s proprietary learning platform, “SiTELMS,” averaged more than 3,000 daily logins from nearly 55,700 unique users in fiscal year 2025, while continued medical education engagement was led by nurses, followed by physicians and physician assistants. The lab holds several accreditations and, in 2025, launched neonatal emergency safety training across all seven delivering hospitals as an interdisciplinary neonatal emergency program.
