The QEII Simulation Program
Helping facilitate innovative experiential best practice learning and competency maintenance at our three facilities and in situ. We are located at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, NS.
Our realistic high fidelity patient simulator learning suites and surgical skills lab offers medical and healthcare learners an opportunity to develop and refine their skills while safely learning to work effectively as part of an interprofessional team.
Our Facilities
Skills Centre
Bethune Building, Room B04
Capacity: 25 lab / 20 classroom
The Skills Centre offers up to six cadaveric stations to practice surgical techniques and procedures with direct access to a classroom.
Sim Bay
Halifax Infirmary, Room 3706.1
Capacity: 14
The Sim Bay offers a realistic high fidelity patient simulator suite as well as a single bed cadaveric station for procedural learning.
Simulation Centre
Centennial Building, Room 097
Capacity: 14
The Simulation Centre offers a realistic high fidelity patient simulator suite (Simulation Lab, Debriefing Conference Room and a Control Room).
Looking to book one of our facilities or an in situ session?
Operating under a commitment to openness and transparency, we handle user booking requests in a "first come, first served" manner.
This approach ensures equitable access to our facilities for all users, including programs and departments.
Requests can be submitted from a minimum of two (2) weeks, to a maximum of eighteen (18) months, in advance.
Requests under two (2) weeks may be accommodated under the discretion of the Simulation Program.Our hours of operation are Monday-Friday | 8:00AM to 4:00PM. The setup, teaching session, and cleanup must be achievable within these hours. Larger sessions might require the booking of time the day before and/or the day after to accommodate. Please discuss with our coordinators if you have any questions.
All bookings require the submission of comprehensive details (equipment & instrument requirements, skills stations, scenarios, etc.) before approval will be granted to ensure expectations can be met. Our Session Planning Sheet can be downloaded and completed at your convenience and attached to your booking request in lieu of entering the details online.
*Please note: QEII Simulation is not responsible to reproduce/keep past session submission information. Users booking are required to supply the details for every submission.Please have a look at our Processes and Expectations Summary Sheet for further information to help us achieve a trouble free experience.
In situ simulation is the practice of using simulated scenarios in a clinical environment rather than in our simulation facilities.
This offers heightened realism with a clinical setting and familiar equipment. The QEII Simulation Program can support your in situ goals with a simulation specialist and a patient simulator or task trainer. If you need assistance with planning, scenario development, pre-briefing, or debriefing, please contact the Simulation IP Educator through our contact page.
Looking to borrow equipment?
Please send us a request through our contact page.
Remember to include the equipment to be borrowed, location of use, pick up & return date/time/location.
We require at least 7 days’ notice for equipment requests.
Looking to have something 3d printed?
Please send us a note through our contact page. A Simulation Specialist will reply to see how we can help.
We require at least 14 days’ notice for 3d print requests.
Looking to start using simulation as a teaching modality, or have
questions on how simulation might be able to help you?
Please send us a note through our contact page. The Simulation Manager or Coordinator will reply to see how we can help.
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