National Center for Collaboration
in
Medical Modeling and Simulation
In late 2001, the United States
Congress formally established the National Center for Collaboration in
Medical Modeling and Simulation (NCCMMS). Based in Eastern Virginia,
the NCCMMS is a joint project of Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS)
and Old Dominion University (ODU) and a variety of academic,
governmental and commercial partners.
The NCCMMS builds on the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency's 1990s program in medical simulation
research, the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Program,
projects within and sponsored by the U.S. Army Medical Research and
Materiel Command, and the hundreds of billions of dollars of
expenditures in modeling and simulation already made by the nation and
its private sector.
The initial beneficiaries of the
Center's work are the medical services within the U.S. military, but,
with support from appropriate government, commercial, and institutional
partners, the Center's work will be rapidly transferred to the nation's
public and private health care systems.
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Mission and Goals
The NCCMMS' mission is to improve both
the quality and quantity of medical care available to U.S. military
forces. This is accomplished by providing a collaborative environment
where basic and applied medical modeling and simulation research can be
undertaken by EVMS and ODU researchers within the context of a
comprehensive academic medical center that provides a convenient
clinical testbed for new technologies and approaches and in a region
with access to the expertise of the large U.S. military medical
community as represented by the Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, the
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and other
military medical facilities.
The Center's goals are to:
- Conduct a systematic set of
validation and training transfer studies with "best of breed" medical
simulations
- Develop new medical simulations
- Develop medical education and
training curricula that explicitly incorporate a full range of medical
simulations
- Develop a regional medical
preparedness simulation for Hampton Roads
- Strengthen collaborative research
within the medical simulation community
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