Communications Skills Training at Scale
Advertorial Conversational AI is reshaping healthcare simulation by making communication skills practice repeatable, accessible, and easier to debrief. This article explores the problem it addresses, what “conversational AI” means in simulation-based education, and how different modes – turn-based, real-time, and phone-call – support different learners and contexts. I’m a psychiatry doctor by training, so I’veContinue reading "Home"
Three Levels of Simulation Encounters: a framework for Healthcare Education
Not all simulation is created equal. This article introduces a three-tier framework for categorizing simulation encounters in healthcare education: from Level One factual reinforcement, where abstract concepts become tangible, to Level Two skill development through deliberate practice, to the most advanced Level Three clinical environment mimicry. By giving faculty and simulation specialists a shared language,Continue reading "Home"
Simulation enters quality criteria: Switzerland takes the first step
Switzerland has included simulation among its Quality Improvement Measures, contractual tools that legally bind hospitals and health insurers. This is not a symbolic recognition: in a country that leads the World Index of Healthcare Innovation, simulation becomes a verifiable and accountable requirement. And it could become a model to use in advocacy actions. Some newsContinue reading "Home"
SESAM 2026: Science, Community, and the City of Lyon
Thirty-one years ago, a small group of European clinicians believed that learning through simulation could transform patient care. This June in Lyon, more than 650 abstracts, a WHO Chief Scientist, and a programme spanning XR, AI, diversity, and Francophone simulation will prove just how right they were. The SESAM Scientific Committee is delighted to shareContinue reading "Home"
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Adult Male Obesity Simulation Suit
A suit to resamble the look and size of an obese patient. Also weight can be added through special pouches inside the suit [e.g. adding sand bags]
Airway management task trainer (head)
Airway management synthetic simulator, popularized due to the manufacturer's decision to release designs for 3D printing of solid manikin components
Arthro Mentor Platform
Interactive simulator, combining computer to create virtual environments for simulating real-world scenarios, and haptic devices to provide haptic feedback, for arthroscopic surgery skills acquisition. It can be equipped with a sinthetic fully articulated knee model [it can be extended/bent and be applied with Varus/Valgus], shoulder model in beach chair and lateral decubitus positions, and hip model in supine and lateral decubitus positions.
Leonardo
Adult patient simulator, designed to give realistic feel when conducting a simulation. It is an excellent and versatile simulator, as well as for its functionality, for its physiognomy and internal conformation (airways in particular).
MegaCode Kelly Advanced
It is a medium-fidelity simulator focused on ALS exercise because it fully complies with the manikin characteristics required by major certifications. The manikin is easy to maintain due to the easy retrieval of parts from the manufacturer's website.
SimShirt™
Wearable suit for auscultation, carotid and radial pulse detection, ECG, all managed wirelessly by software
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