More than 85 healthcare educators/clinicians from the five-state region are scheduled to attend Friday’s Minnesota Simulation Conference hosted by Riverland Community College with conference partners HealthForce Minnesota and Laerdal Medical.

The conference features experts from the healthcare simulation industry, provide professional development/learning opportunities for attendees and facilitate networking and building/enhancing a simulation community.

HealthForce Minnesota, a Minnesota Center for Excellence, is a collaborative partnership of education, industry and community created to increase the number and expand the diversity of healthcare workers; to integrate health science education practice and research; and to build capacity for education and industry to collaborate to enhance patient care.

Laerdal Medical, one of the world’s leading providers of Healthcare Solutions, is dedicated to helping save lives with products and services for simulation, airway management, immobilization, basic life support, advanced life support, patient care, self-directed learning and medical education.

For details about the Simulation Conference see: http://www.riverland.edu/mnsim/