The CLSF promotes simulation education and training using life-like robotic mannequins for students and postgraduate students in Medicine, School of Medical Rehabilitation, Pharmacy, and Nursing.  The CLSF is also utilized by clinicians, physicians, faculty members, WRHA health teams and emergency medical service personnel.  Four large examination rooms are equipped with robotic headboards and elevated observation rooms which allow instructors to manipulate various medical scenarios or traumas.

Like a hospital, all of the CLSF’s 17 multipurpose examination rooms are equipped with a diagnostic headwall featuring blood pressure cuffs, otoscope, thermometer, medical gas columns, heart-rate monitors and intravenous carts. The “patients”  – two adults, a birthing mother, an infant and a child — are all anatomically correct robotic mannequins who can breathe, have pulses and reflexes. 

The CLSF provides a home for existing programs and  for developing ones. It is used for examinations, clinical assessments, training sessions, Standardized Patient medical scenarios, group exercises, and evaluations.  Each room is equipped with high-fidelity video cameras with real-time playback capability to facilitate evaluations and debriefing -central to the simulation teaching style.

Contact us at ph. 204-272-3070 or e-mailto:  clsf@med.umanitoba.ca  if you are interested in touring the facility or using it for educational and teaching purposes.