ASSERT Centre, College of Medicine & Health, UCC

ASSERT through the application of Technology Enhanced Learning including Simulation-Based Training and Virtual Reality Based Training in its state-of-the-art healthcare training facilities, is dedicated to the improvement of patient safety and patient outcomes.

ASSERT aims to enhance and consolidate skills training in the technical and non-technical domains, either generic or discipline-specific, at the individual or at an inter-professional team level, to improve performance, improve patient safety, improve patient care and improve patient outcomes. ASSERT through its close links with academic, health, and industry partners nationally and internationally seek to engage and link Academics, Business, and Clinical researchers to combine in a true “ABC Ecosystem”.

Thus, ASSERT enables clinicians, industry, and academics across a broad spectrum of healthcare research, to design, develop, deploy and trial innovative and disruptive healthcare solutions, in a simulated healthcare environment that delivers real-world solutions for healthcare problems in the developed and developing world.