WakeMed Center for Innovative Learning

A Focus on Quality and Safety

With patient safety and quality outcomes in mind, WakeMed Health & Hospitals offers the region's first Center for Innovative Learning. 

Funded by The Duke Endowment, the WakeMed Center for Innovative Learning is designed to facilitate realistic multi-disciplinary clinical training and education for all levels of health care providers.

Health care providers have the opportunity to practice skills and gain clinical confidence in a controlled, yet realistic environment.

Center for Innovative Learning In the News

WRAL.com:  WakeMed program helps keep physicians sharp - A new patient simulation lab at WakeMed aims to help physicians, nurses and caregivers hone their medical and communication skills.

Healthcare Design.com - Simulation synchronicity:  Unique simulation learning environment begins with the right design

Center for Innovative Learning

WakeMed's Center for Innovative Learning is a 3,800 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility, located on the WakeMed Raleigh Campus. 

The Center for Innovative Learning provides a unique training environment for health care providers throughout the region, including those affiliates with Wake AHEC, The Capital Regional Advisory Committee (CapRAC), Wake Technical Community College and the numerous hospitals that comprise the Southern Atlantic Healthcare Alliance (SAHA). 

Future expansion plans include the addition of several thousand square feet of clinical space.

WakeMed Center for Innovative Learning Designated as a Laerdal Center of Educational Excellence The WakeMed Center for Innovative Learning was recently designated a Center of Educational Excellence by Laerdal Medical, one of the world's leading providers of health care solutions, including products and services for simulation, immobilization, basic and advanced life support, patient care, self-directed learning and medical education. Laerdal's Center of Education Excellence designation: Recognizes facilities that have exhibited consistent excellence in educational philosophy and programs for the purpose of helping save lives. Identifies facilities that can be referred to as examples as it relates to the design and implementation of excellent educational programs to help caregivers save lives. Establishes a network of centers that can provide mutual support for "breaking new ground" in the field.