Medical Simulation Center
Our Facilities
The Rhode Island Hospital Medical Simulation Center
is composed of a simulation control room and simulator
area, two trainee simulation-viewing areas, a conference
room for audiovisual debriefings, storage and
equipment rooms and an office suite.
The facility’s main
simulation room
is more than
1,200 square
feet. It was
designed to be a
flexible environment
to accommodate
multiple
simultaneous simulations
in emergency
department,
hospital
ward or other
critical care settings.
The center
has been successfully conducting multi-patient prehospital
and hospital-based training for graduate medical
education and weapons of mass destruction event
preparedness.
Most aspects of actual treatment areas and equipment
are reproduced to help participants suspend disbelief.
Advanced resuscitation equipment, medications, medical
gases, overhead lights and computer imaging display
capabilities are some of the elements incorporated into
the design of the Simulation Center.
The Rhode Island Hospital Simulation Center’s audiovisual
system incorporates professional recording and
editing capabilities to create educational materials for
remote and off-line learning. Remote learning is possible by conventional teleconferencing or by stateof-
the-art Internet-2 multicasting video (requires additional
equipment at destination).Teams or individuals
alternate viewing and participating in single or multiple
patient scenarios; these are followed by a video-based
debriefing to facilitate discussion, evaluate performance
and highlight educational objectives.
 The center currently uses four Laerdal SimMan mannequins, one Laerdal SimBaby mannequin and one METI HPS mannequin. The center also has access to a Gaumard Noelle mannequin for labor and delivery simulation, and a trauma disaster casuality kit. These high fidelity mannequins have fully computerized control
and audiovisual interactive capability.
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