The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Simulation Center is celebrating Simulation in Healthcare Week 2023 with a series of events Sept. 18-22, including an open house at the SMHS on Sept. 19.

The largest and most active center of its kind in North Dakota, the SMHS Simulation Center is a hands-on simulation training facility for multidisciplinary healthcare providers. The high-fidelity space provides learners with two unique medical settings: a clinical setting, where students train with standardized human patients who have been trained in the art of behaving and responding like a medical patient; and a hospital setting where students explore hospital- or emergency room-based scenarios (such as childbirth or intensive care) with robotic “manikins” replacing human patients.