The J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Simulation Center at Mayo Clinic's campus in Jacksonville, Florida, provides team and individual skills training for Mayo physicians, residents, students, nurses and allied health professionals and for learners from other organizations. The Society for Simulation in Healthcare-accredited center comprises approximately 9,500 square feet of multidisciplinary simulation training space, complemented by an additional 2,500-square-foot expansion of the center's Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation Procedural Skills Laboratory.

The simulation center staff assists in procuring and presenting materials to support or modify scenarios to meet specific training needs. In addition, the simulation center offers basic and extensive faculty development courses.

Standardized Patient Program

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 real-life portrayal of healthcare-based scenarios. The standardized patient interacts with learners in a safe environment that does not put actual patients at risk.

Training rooms

The J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Simulation Center offers learners several unique training environments. The simulation rooms are replicas with the same, look, and feel of current clinical space to ensure realistic learning experiences. All rooms are fully integrated with our audio-visual system, one-way viewing mirrors, vital-sign monitors, 50-inch monitors for projection of learning aides, and contain fully functioning medical gas supply and lighting.

Rooms include:

• Task training room
• Clinical exam rooms
• Operating suite
• Emergency room, medical-surgical room, and intensive care unit suite
• Debriefing and conference rooms

Simulation equipment

Equipment includes, but is not limited to:

• Analgesia pump (patient-controlled)
• Anatomage virtual dissection table
• Arjo Huntleigh patient mobility devices
• Baxter infusion pumps
• Blue phantom A-line/PICC/IV line trainers
• Blue phantom paracentesis and throacentesis trainers
• Blue phantom ultrasound central line trainers
• CAE virtual ultrasound trainer
• Code Blue crash cart
• Colonoscopy trainer and gastrointestinal cart with scopes
• Draeger Apollo Anesthesia Machine
• ECMO simulator
• Endoscopy-colonoscopy virtual reality trainer
• Gaumard IV/A-line training arm
• Gaumard pelvic trainers
• Gaumard Victoria birthing simulator with Baby Tory
• Glidescopes
• GYN pelvic trainer
• Harvey — The Cardiopulmonary Patient Simulator
• Kangaroo enteral feeding pump
• Laerdal SimMan 3G mannequins
• Laerdal SimBaby
• Lap Mentor laparoscopic virtual reality trainer
• Laparoscopic box trainers (FLS)
• Lumbar puncture trainer
• Michigan Lung
• Mimic da Vinci robotic virtual reality trainer
• Multiple airway trainers
• Olympus endoscope tower
• Philips Sparq ultrasound
• Philips Lumify ultrasound
• Scout vital signs monitor
• Siemens Mini C-arm
• Simbionix Pacerman
• SonoSite M-Turbo ultrasound
• SonoSite X-Port ultrasound
• Suture boards and suturing materials
• Ventilators (I-Servo and Philips V-60)
• Vimedix virtual ultrasound trainer
• Zoll defibrillator