Corporate HR, MidtSim is the highly specialised simulation centre in Central Denmark Region.

Also, MidtSim plays a key role in the development of an aligned/united approach within simulation in the region in cooperation with the regional hospitals and Aarhus University Hospital.

Finally, MidtSim is the local simulation centre of Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University.

What we do

MidtSim contributes to increased patient safety by promoting simulation-based educational activities for health professionals at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Central Denmark Region.

On a yearly basis, MidtSim contributes to the education of approx 14,000 learners.

MidtSim pursues the following objectives in order to reach its goals

• MidtSim will ensure a high academic level and a research-based approach to inter-professional simulation-based training in Central Denmark Region.
• MidtSim will strive to increase patient safety and patient-perceived quality through application of simulation in Central Denmark Region.
• MidtSim will pursue that all healthcare professionals in Central Denmark Region get the opportunity to practice through simulation-based activities prior to treating patients.

Our faculty, internal as well as external, includes professors, clinical associate professors, PhDs, surgeons, physicians, and nurses. Accordingly, their clinical and scientific legitimacy is ensured by their employment and/or affiliation with a university and/or a clinical setting. Consequently, MidtSim ensures that our teaching activities are up to date with the highest standards.

Corporate HR, MidtSim - in Central Denmark Region

Organisationally, MidtSim is anchored under Corporate HR.

Corporate HR, MidtSim - internal organisation

The internal organisation of MidtSim stands on three pillars: Course activities, research, and development. Our day-to-day administration is handled by a management and a management secretariat.

Steering Committee and Network Forum

MidtSim refers to a steering committee. The Steering Committee is composed of hospital medical directors and members with corresponding positions in the administrative health and educational units of Central Denmark Region. Further, MidtSim is affiliated with Aarhus University that also holds positions in the Steering Committee. Meetings are scheduled twice a year.

In addition, MidtSim is part of the Network Forum. The goal of the Network Forum is, in collaboration with MidtSim, to create a forum at the operational level tasked with executing the decisions of the Steering Committee, and promoting joint coordination across the region. The Network Forum has four scheduled meetings a year.

How it all began

As a result of a 'business transfer', Corporate HR, MidtSim was established as a highly specialised simulation centre in Central Denmark Region in 2016. Before 2016, MidtSim was organised as a skills training centre under the name of SkejSim and was owned by Central Denmark Region, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. The history of SkejSim dates back to 1999.

The transformation from SkejSim to MidtSim took place in 2016 in order to deploy a systematic and structured approach to simulation in Central Denmark Region and to maximise the effects of simulation across the region and ensure quality of simulation-based activities and simulation faculty.

Our facilities

MidtSim's facilities are easily accessible for learners as our centre is situated directly opposite of Aarhus University Hospital, the largest of the five hospital units in Central Denmark Region and one of MidtSim's closest collaborators.

Also, MidtSim is the local simulation centre of Aarhus University Hospital.