Surgery Interactive Multimedia Modules (SIMMs)

About the SIMMs

Welcome to the Surgical Interactive Multimedia Modules, or SIMMs for short. This application was designed as an integral part of the third year medical student surgical clerkship at the NYU School of Medicine. Because a significant portion of surgical patient care occurs in an outpatient setting that is unavailable to a medical student, we've attempted to provide a computerized linear narrative of the patient's illness and the patient-physician interaction from the patient's first visit to his or her physician, through the diagnostic process, into the operating room, to the pathology, and finally to the postoperative visits.

The SIMMs are designed to provide students with the core of the curricular material with accessory material available for those students who wish to explore a topic in broader depth. One goal of the SIMMs is to enhance the educational value of actual clinical experiences by "priming" students with core material and principles in an environment that is user driven and free from the constraints implicit in the clinical context. Our vision is that the SIMMs will allow students to maximize actual contact time with patients and help place their clinical experiences into the proper context of the entire flow of the patient's care

The SIMMs were developed jointly by the Department of Surgery and the Department of Advanced Educational Systems and are an educational resource that the NYU School of Medicine wishes to share with the educational community.

• If you are interested in using or evaluating the SIMMs at your institution, please fill the registration form.



• If you are currently a surgical clerk at NYU School of Medicine, you may download download the SIMM installer.

If you would like to participate in the development of the SIMMs or provide feedback to the developers, please contact simms@med.nyu.edu.