Simulation-based education at Manchester Met

SBE is used to prepare learners for working in hospitals and acute settings. Our Simulation Rooms are realistic clinical environments that enable learners to practice their skills in a real-world setting.

The two high-tech Simulation Rooms are fitted with the latest clinical simulation equipment and house responsive high-tech human patient simulator manikins.

These realistic manikins are operated covertly from sound-proof Control Rooms with one-way mirrored glass, creating an extremely realistic experience.

Learners in the Simulation Rooms can access instant feedback and physiological data to enable them to fully interact with our patient simulator manikins to assess, diagnose and treat the patients successfully.

We also work with people who take on the role of service users and relatives (simulated people, SPs) and are trained to provide person-centered feedback to our learners during the debrief.

The CAVE is an interactive room that can replicate any physical environment virtually, through 360 degree sight and sound.

The CAVE can support learning as it replicates hard-to reach environments, such as football stadia, to create realistic scenarios that learners may face in their professional practice.

Alongside the CAVE, learners can utilise our head-mounted Virtual Reality (VR) equipment (HTC Vive and ClassVR headsets) to enable individual bespoke VR experiences.

Our Physiotherapy Practical Rooms provide our learners with the opportunity to develop practical skills and techniques during simulated patient scenarios.

We have six Physiotherapy Practical Rooms, an electrotherapy room and physiotherapy gym.

All of our rooms are equipped with all the resources required for physiotherapy interventions, such as patient assessment, exercise therapy and musculoskeletal manipulation techniques.

Our Clinical Skills Rooms provide our learners with the opportunity to practice interaction with patients and the healthcare team.

This includes opportunities to rehearse important communication skills and practical activities to enable learning about effective care provision.

Imitating hospital ward environments, our two Clinical Skills Rooms include all of the relevant equipment and props required so that learners can practice essential technical and non-technical skills.

These might include communication skills, such as listening and empathy, alongside clinical skills; for example: hand washing, infection control, physiological observations, moving and handling, basic life support (CPR), delivering injections, inserting catheters, taking observations and practicing drug administration.