World-class health simulation attracts international experts

Photo of Associate Professor Adam Montagu showing experts a manikin used for teaching at Adelaide Health Simulation.

Associate Professor Adam Montagu (right) shows experts a manikin used for teaching at Adelaide Health Simulation.聽颁谤别诲颈迟:听Nelson Da Silva

The 成人大片鈥檚 world-class health simulation facility, Adelaide Health Simulation, will be on show to international experts attending the Australasian Simulation Congress.

More than 350 experts will see Adelaide Health Simulation in action during a live simulation demonstration. Each delegate has the opportunity to tour the impressive facility as part of the Congress, which focuses on modelling, simulation and system approaches to research, education, health, defence and engineering.

鈥淎delaide Health Simulation is the most technologically advanced healthcare simulation facility in Australasia. It allows medical and nursing students to learn about procedures and patient care in a realistic hospital environment and is a prime example of how simulation can be useful for industry,鈥 said the 成人大片鈥檚 Associate Professor Adam Montagu, Director of Adelaide Health Simulation.

Located in the Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences building on North Terrace, Adelaide Health Simulation is set up like a hospital with 36 assessment rooms and 24 multi-purpose teaching spaces, complete with functioning oxygen suction and call bells.

It also features an operating theatre, birthing suite and geriatric ward, with neonatal and resuscitation equipment, ultrasound machines and ECG monitoring.

鈥淲e are incredibly proud to be home to this cutting-edge facility, which has been selected as an example of best practice to international experts across a range of industries."Associate Professor Adam Montagu, Director of Adelaide Health Simulation, 成人大片.


Trained actors and hi-tech manikins work with learners as simulated patients to help students develop real-life communication and non-technical skills.

鈥淚n the simulation environment, our students can learn how to deliver safe and quality care to patients across the lifespan,鈥 said Associate Professor Montagu.

鈥淭hey learn a range of vital skills required in healthcare鈥攆rom learning how to shower patients and attending to activities of daily living, right though to being immersed in simulated surgery and anaesthesia.鈥

Adelaide Health Simulation is the only Australian health simulation facility accredited with the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH)鈥攖he largest health simulation accrediting body in the worldfor excellence in learning and teaching.

鈥淲e are incredibly proud to be home to this cutting-edge facility, which has been selected as an example of best practice to international experts across a range of industries,鈥 said Associate Professor Montagu.

Tours of the Adelaide Health Simulation will take place throughout the Australasian Simulation Congress, which is being held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 21-24 August.

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