Background

Simulation is being vastly integrated into different healthcare quality improvement initiatives from continuing education to competency evaluation. The challenge of simulationists is to find cost-effective ways to enhance simulation reality to enrich learning. Although developments in newer models of task trainers and mannequins offer new features that are of substantial improvement from previous versions, they are also expensive. Simulation centers that have purchased earlier models are being challenged to justify the acquisition of newer versions, since they already have similar educational tools that can fulfil the basic functions.