The 3,000-square-foot in-hospital simulation facility allows health care team members to train during the day or before or after regular hours. Send an inquiry about hosting an event at the Multidisciplinary Simulation Center using the contact button at the top of the page.

One-way glass allows instructors to observe simulation sessions from the control room and manage simulators and audiovisual equipment. The control room houses:

• Computer operating systems for each simulator
• Audio-video controls and monitors for the simulation center and classroom
• Simulation data and video integration, annotation, evaluation, and storage platform
• Individual wireless microphones for simulation participants

The use of simulation practice footage to debrief participants is especially effective for adult learners.

Equipment

The Multidisciplinary Simulation Center in Arizona lets learners develop crucial skills on high-fidelity simulators, virtual reality equipment, and specialized task trainers.

High-fidelity simulation equipment includes:

• Adult and pediatric high-fidelity simulator
• Endovascular simulator

Virtual reality equipment includes:

• 3-D ultrasound trainer
• 3-D virtual surgical trainers
• Gastrointestinal endoscopy and flexible bronchoscopy trainers
• Virtual human dissection table

Task trainers include:

• Auscultation trainer
• Airway trainer
• Blue phantom arm
• Bronchoscope trainer
• Central line trainer
• Colonoscopy trainer
• Cricoid head
• Epidural trainer
• Female and male catheterization trainers
• Femoral vessels and nerves
• Fire and fire extinguisher simulator
• IV trainer (hand and arm)
• IV trainer (whole arm)
• Interscalene/supraclavicular block trainer
• Intraosseous infusion
• Knee aspiration trainer
• Lumbar puncture trainer
• Paracentesis ultrasound
• Pericardiocentesis trainer
• PICC line
• Simulab thoracentesis ultrasound trainer
• Vascular ultrasound blocks
• Venipuncture pad

Training rooms

Training rooms at the Multidisciplinary Simulation Center in Arizona include:

• Classroom
• Emergency department and intensive care unit
• Operating room
• Laparoscopic skills laboratory
• Medical-surgical room
• Procedural and outpatient room

The Center for Procedural Innovation is a 4,000-square-foot educational space where health care professionals can learn, innovate, research, and practice surgical and procedural skills using donors (cadavers) and other anatomical models. The Center organizes events for medical professionals both internal and external to Mayo Clinic and is available for rent on a per diem basis.

The Center's customized education experiences range from large courses with international participants taught by Mayo Clinic surgeons to individualized just-in-time training and caters to all experience levels from novice learners to expert surgeons. Send an inquiry about hosting an event at the Center for Procedural Innovation using the contact button at the top of the page.

Hands-on sessions in the Center for Procedural Innovation have direct positive results in patient care, realizing Mayo Clinic's core value that the needs of the patient come first. Innovation and research of new surgical approaches also make the center an important and essential part of the education found at Mayo Clinic.

Training Spaces

Together, the classroom, the Microsurgical Training Lab, and the Procedural Skills Lab creates an all-encompassing educational environment that allows health care professionals to excel and provide world-class patient care.

The classroom features:

• Seating capacity for 48 people
• Twelve rectangular tables with multiple configuration options
• Seven wall-mounted monitors with flexible digital routing
• Full teleconferencing capabilities including live video streaming
• Ceiling-mounted cameras and microphones for recording
• Writable, dry-erase walls throughout
• In-house and external catering options

The Microsurgical Training Lab / Temporal Bone Lab features:

• Thirteen benchtop workstations with wall-mounted suction and irrigation
• Eleven tabletop microscopes
• Five wall-mounted monitors with flexible digital routing and live video streaming

The Procedural Skills Lab features:

• Eight surgical stations with two overhead lights, wall-mounted suction, and wall-mounted medical gas
• Eighteen-unit, in-house donor (cadaver) storage with flexible temperature control
• Scissor lift and ceiling lift for safe patient/donor handling
• Personal protective equipment donning station and scrubs provided
• Control room with a 90-degree view of the lab and two desktop workstations
• Four wall-mounted monitors with flexible digital routing and live video streaming
• Multiple 20-amp and 50-amp electrical outlets throughout

Equipment

Equipment includes, but is not limited to:

• Surgical hand instruments
• Laparoscopic instruments
• Stryker system power tools
• Medtronic Integrated Power Console (IPC)
• Medtronic IPC high-speed drill and microdebrider
• Anspach surgical drills
• Valleylab Force FX electrosurgical units
• Covidien ForceTriad electrosurgical units
• Karl Storz endoscope tower and telescopes
• Olympus endoscope tower and endoscopes
• Stryker arthroscopy tower and arthroscopes
• TruDi surgical navigation systems
• Sonosite ultrasounds
• GE Healthcare ultrasounds
• Mobile C-arm and protective lead
• Access to CT imaging
• Task trainers and anatomy models

Arizona campus welcomed its first class of 50 students in July 2017. The medical school is implementing a blended learning curriculum including online, classroom, and experiential components. The school offers a Gross Anatomy Lab and six dedicated Objective Structured Clinical Examination Simulation Rooms. The experiential learning team plays a critical role in training this next generation of physician leaders.

Send an inquiry about hosting an event at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine experiential learning spaces using the contact button at the top of the page.

Residents in general surgery, urology, and gynecology utilize the Ayarza Laparoscopic Skills Lab to practice skills that they will utilize in real-world surgical events. General surgery residents participate in weekly training sessions led by staff surgeons and utilizing virtual reality task trainers to practice skills such as laparoscopic suturing, cautery principles, and knot tying.

The Virginia Nehring Utz Nursing Skills Lab offers a ward-style simulation and clinical skills room with a separate intensive care room. Nursing staff from a variety of specialties use the nursing skills lab to design and conduct training for specific patient care skills and scenarios.

Mayo Clinic also collaborates with the Arizona State University College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovations to utilize the nursing skills lab.

The center incorporates the use of standardized patients — actors trained to portray roles of patients, family members, or others — allowing learners to practice communication skills, physical examination, delivery of bad news, and other exercises. Through vigorous and innovative training, standardized patients play a vital role in the real-life portrayal of health care-based scenarios. The standardized patient interacts with learners in a safe environment that does not put actual patients at risk.

Send an inquiry about employing the Standardized Patient Program for an event using the contact button at the top of the page.