High-fidelity simulation has been demonstrated to improve educational outcomes in medical curricula. The UCLA Center for Prehospital Care is engaged in an ongoing project to add and enhance simulation throughout our emegency medical education programs. This work includes moulage to improve the realism of injuries, high-tech manikins that accurately exhibit a range of normal or pathological vital signs, and a full simulation room that can create virtually any environment through wraparound projection, audio, and even scent. These tools can be used together or separately to enable students to experience, in a controlled environment, situations and treatment opportunities that otherwise require significant risk or uncertainty.
Our simulation room and some of our equipment and supplies have been funded in part through Los Angeles County's Measure B grant program, and are available to other medical education programs to reserve for your faculty and students. Please contact us for details.
Our simulation room places this manikin in a medical treatment room.
Check out our April Spotlight to see it in action.
In addition to recreating a variety of environments, the room enables the integration of supplemental teaching materials into the simulation.