Respond to a call to a workplace accident and perform a patient assessment, initiate treatment, and manage a mechanical ventilator.

Help to guide a new graduate nurse through the nursing assessment and management of a client experiencing prenatal complications.

Rolando Perigrino is a 65-year-old male with a recent diagnosis of bladder cancer. He presents with reports of blood tinged urine.

This virtual simulation game focuses on a virtual healthcare encounter between a nurse or nurse practitioner working in primary care. The intended learners are undergraduate nursing students (year 3 or 4) and nurse practitioner students. This learning experience incorporates the CASE Method, a framework that health care providers can use to guide conversations with parents […]

This template is a generic and comprehensive guide for the development and documentation of simulation scenarios. It is intended to be applicable to any profession (including interprofessional scenarios), any healthcare field, and for most simulation modalities. Members of the Simulation Canada community produced it following a review of the literature on best practices in scenario […]

The PEARLS for Systems Integration Debreifng Tool is now available as a free colour download.

EMR-sim is a computer-based (‚’virtual patient’) simulation to teach clinicians on the challenges of using electronic medical records (EMRs) in the patient-clinician encounter. The scenarios for this project were designed on the basis of a literature review and a research study of the impact of EMRs on the clinical encounter and the strategies and best […]

Since the publication of the 2011 report Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, few tools have been developed to evaluate attitudes that reflect the competencies. The Interprofessional Assessment Scale (IPAS) was developed and validated with this purpose in mind.

This virtual patient case, named ‘A fatigued figure’, was the 3rd place winner in the CHEC-CESC Virtual Patient Challenge 2012-2013. The case authors are Ayesha Malik, MSc, MD Candidate, and Kiran Virdy, MD, Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto. This case is designed for medical students and PGY1 in Family Medicine, and is designed as […]

Badia was rated as high-risk from the Healthy Babies community health nurse for multiple reasons, including her young age, lack of family support, pre-mature birth with low birth weight, single mother, and chain cigarette smoker. Badia has agreed to have a nurse visit her in her apartment for an initial assessment.

This is an evaluation form that can be used to measure students’ simulation performance in many disciplines within healthcare. The Global Rating Scale has been designed to be best utilized with hands-on scenarios in the simulation teaching environment.

This is a multidisciplinary office scenario that should be appropriate for any health care professionals that would work in such a setting. A patient presents to the office with left upper back pain that he attributes to gardening. During the assessment the patient reports shortness of breath, chest pain, along with a history of cardiovascular […]

The Simulation Session Booking and Planning Form is useful for simulation centre co-coordinators to find out about the learning objectives of the simulation session that an instructor would like to create, and to acquire basic logistics information such as type of participants, number of participants, length of simulation, etc. It can be e-mailed to the […]