Michener’s St. Patrick Campus boasts state-of-the-art simulation suites and 24 clinical exam rooms designed for comprehensive testing and assessment. These facilities enhance students’ learning experience while ensuring examination integrity.

Highlights:

• Accessible Clinical Exam Rooms: Conveniently located on the 3rd floor, each room features front hallway access for candidates and rear hallway access for examiners, facilitating smooth operations during assessments.
• Integrated Recording Equipment: All exam rooms have built-in recording systems for web-based recording and debriefing, allowing for effective feedback and analysis. All video recordings are easily exported for review.
• Observer-Accessible Corridors: Examiner corridors behind clinical exam rooms feature one-way glass and control panels, enabling examiners to observe and monitor without disrupting the examination process.
• Acoustic Privacy: Suites are acoustically isolated, with restricted access to maintain the integrity of examinations
• Customizable Overhead Announcement System: A fully customizable system allows for clear communication throughout the facilities.
• Dedicated Spaces: Separate rooms accommodate standardized patients, examiners, candidates, administrative staff, and AV personnel, promoting organized and efficient assessments.
• Multifunctional Reception Area: A versatile reception area enhances the overall experience for candidates and visitors.

Michener’s St. Patrick Campus offers a diverse array of larger simulation spaces as well which are designed to enhance the education and assessment of health professions through collaborative, patient-centered practice scenarios. These facilities include:

• Simulation Studios: Flexible spaces that can be set up to simulate patient rooms, triage units, and operating rooms, allowing for realistic training experiences.
• Integrated recording equipment: To facilitate seamless recording and debriefing of simulation scenarios.
• Staging Studios: These adaptable rooms feature sliding partitions that can increase the space to accommodate multiple scenarios, effectively doubling, tripling, or quadrupling the available simulation area.
• Control Rooms: An elevated room featuring one-way glass for scenario monitoring and real-time observation. Equipped with two-way communication between control rooms and simulation rooms and technology for the control of high-fidelity manikins.
• Debrief, Multi-Purpose and Breakout Rooms: These rooms are designed to support viewing and debriefing of previously recorded simulations. They include projectors, motorized screens, and cameras, providing a comprehensive environment for reflection and learning.

Michener’s Simulated Participant (SP) Program enhances communication capacity, reinforces therapeutic alliances and provides reflective feedback through dynamic portrayals by trained simulation professionals.

As a member of the global simulated participant (SP) community of practice, we are a leader in SP methodology. We are dedicated to inspiring lifelong learning, bridging student success at entry-to-practice with continuous professional development through innovative human-centred communication.

Michener is a global simulated participant (SP) community member, advancing SP methodology to enhance healthcare education. SPs play an essential role in experiential learning by authentically portraying patients, clients, and healthcare professionals. They provide constructive feedback and support both formative learning and summative assessment, ensuring fair and consistent opportunities for all learners.

Our values of integrity, safety, compassion, and collaboration guide our approach, fostering ethical, inclusive, and learner-centred communication.

Who are Simulated Participants (SPs)?

Simulated Participants (SPs) are skilled individuals who portray roles such as patients or healthcare professionals to enhance learning. They provide valuable, learner-focused feedback from the client or patient’s perspective. SPs contribute to both formative and summative assessments, ensuring consistency in performance to give all learners equal opportunities for success.

Interested in Becoming a Simulated Participant?

If you want to join Michener’s SP Program, please send your CV to spprogram@michener.ca. SP positions are part-time and casual, offering a unique opportunity to contribute to healthcare education.

High-fidelity manikins are sophisticated models designed for healthcare education, replicating actual patients’ physiological and anatomical features. By incorporating these manikins into clinical simulations, students safely practice their clinical decision-making skills in a controlled environment. The realism offers virtual feedback through controlled heart sounds, chest movements, and vital signs, enabling learners to develop effective evaluation and treatment techniques. Our simulation team assists with manikin operation, user training, and scenario refinement.

Moulage improves simulation fidelity by accurately representing various medical conditions, including lifelike blood products and secretions. This approach allows participants to practice critical skills in immersive scenarios, promoting deeper learning and better preparation for real-world clinical environments.

An audiovisual system has been implemented within the simulation center and specific laboratory spaces to provide learners with video feedback on their clinical skills and simulation experience. This feature enables learners to observe and critically reflect upon their performance. Additionally, the simulation education and media production team are readily available to facilitate the setup of simulations and coordinate video recording processes.

The simulation team provides support throughout all stages of the simulation process:

• Developing simulation scenarios involves designing realistic clinical scenarios that align with learning objectives. Collaboration with subject matter experts ensures the content is relevant and current.
• Implementation and live experience where the simulations are conducted in controlled environments using high-fidelity manikins and technology to create immersive learning experiences.
• Post-simulation debriefing of learners is important for learners to examine their performance and those of their peers, to clarify concepts, and to consolidate learning. It encourages reflection and feedback among participants. Faculty can be trained to lead an effective debrief or request a simulation education specialist to participate in the debrief session.
• Summative and formative simulation assessment designs can quantify student skill and competency levels or, more holistically, evaluate the effectiveness of simulations through pre- and post-simulation tests, performance metrics, and participant feedback to improve future simulations.
• Support learners in improving professional communication through focused sessions, which address areas where learners are looking to improve their skills and confidence in working with patients as they prepare for their real-world clinical experience.

The Centre for the Enrichment of Teaching and Learning has access to clinical and simulation equipment integral to delivering authentic health care training scenarios.

Equipment includes:

• Adult High-Fidelity Manikins
• Pediatric High-Fidelity Manikins
• Adult Low-Fidelity Manikins
• Mechanical Ventilators (adult and pediatric available)
• Anesthetic Gas Machine
• Crash Carts, including simulated medications
• Venipuncture Task Trainers
• Central Line Task Trainer
• Arterial Line Task Trainer
• Intubation Task Trainers
• Ventrilo Scopes (breath sounds trainer for use with Simulated Patients)
• Portable and Ceiling Lifts for patient transfers
• Other (please inquire)

New equipment is being reviewed regularly, so please contact us at cetl@michener.ca for current rental pricing and booking or to inquire about the specific needs of your simulation.