Recently Michelle Howard MSN, CNS, APRN Director of the Allied Health Simulation Center Executive Director at Ozarks Technical Community College wrote in to ask “What should we title our new simulation technology operator position?”. What a question Michelle! I have had several job titles throughout my career as a Sim Tech, but what’s out there? I exported the titles of those attending SimGHOSTS 2014 USA at the American College of Chest Physicians early next month to demonstrate what a dynamic range of titles this profession currently entertains. I removed redundancies but will point out that “Simulation Technician” had the most results!
- Administrative Simulation Technician
- Assistant Director
- Assistant Director of Simulation
- Biomed Electronics Technician
- Biomedical Engineering
- Technologist
- Biomedical IT Specialist
- Clinical Education Specialist
- Clinical Educator
- Sim Lab Coordinator
- Clinical Instructor
- Clinical Learning Lab Specialist
- Clinical Simulation Lab Director
- Clinical Simulation Specialist
- Co-ordinator Clinical Learning and Simulation
- Code Resuscitation Program Project Manager
- Coordinator of Simulation and Technology
- Coordinator
- Corporate Planning Manager
- Curriculum Coordinator
- Education Coordinator
- Education Specialist
- Equipment Systems Specialist
- Faculty Support/Health Sciences Simulation Center Coordinator
- GME Simulation Coordinator
- Health Science Simulation Technician
- Health Sciences Simulation Coordinator
- Healthcare Simulation Technician
- Instructional Services Technician
- Interim Director of the Learning Center
- IT Manager
- IT Professional
- IT Support Technician
- IT Technical Associate
- Lab Coordinator
- Lab Simulation Specialist
- Lead Analyst
- Learning Products & Services Manager
- Manager Training and Simulation
- Media and simulation technician
- Media Services Technician
- Medical Education Technologist
- Medical Educational Technologist
- Medical Instructor
- Medical Simulation Coordinator
- Medical Simulation Facilitator
- Medical Simulation Technician
- Network Manager
- Nursing Faculty/Lab Facilitator
- Nursing Information Technology Coordinator
- Nursing Simulation Technologist
- Operations Manager
- Professor of NursingProgram Analyst
- Program Director
- PSA & REdI Program Administrator
- REdI Program Coordinator
- Senior Technology Specialist
- Sim Operator
- Sim Tech
- Simulation Center Assistance
- Simulation Center Coordinator/Clinical Nurse Educator
- Simulation Center IT/Networking Specialist
- Simulation Clinical Supervisor/ Simulation Consultant
- Simulation Coordinator
- Simulation Director
- Simulation Education Technician
- Simulation Engineer
- Simulation Intern
- Simulation Lab Administrator
- Simulation Lab Coordinator
- Simulation Lab Tech
- Simulation Learning Center Assistant
- Simulation Operator
- Simulation Specialist
- Simulation Specialist
- Simulation Specialist II
- Simulation Specialist/Coordinator
- Simulation Tech
- Simulation Tech Specialist
- Simulation Technician
- Simulation Technician Program Coordinator
- Simulation Technologist
- Simulation Technology Specialist (MOST USED)
- Simulation Training Specialist
- Specialist in Simulation Technology
- Supervisor, Teaching LabSys
- AdminSystems Analyst 2
- Systems Engineer
- Technical Director
- Technical Lab Assistant
- Technical Simulation Coordinator
- Technical Support Specialist
- Technicien de simulation et téléprésence
- Technologist
- Telehealth and Audio Visual Support Analyst
- Undergraduate Simulation Technician
- Unit Coordinator
Several years ago I worked with a team of Simulation Technicians across the state of California to build a comprehensive job responsibilities list for this position (which you can download here). The term everyone agreed upon was Simulation Technology Specialist — and indeed that is the name that is incorporated into SimGHOSTS which stands for The Gathering of Healthcare Simulation Technology Specialists. We added “healthcare” so that non medical-simulation related groups could identify us as apart of healthcare, as there as “simulation technicians” in a variety of other fields — mostly from aviation.
If you had to choose a new title for the position I would argue for “Simulation Technology Specialist”!
