Academic medical centers are being tasked to move from medical teaching to competence testing. This requires significantly more data collection and simulation functionality. There is a great deal of interest in re-thinking, updating, and expanding simulation centers. Some are robotic, but many expansion initiatives are still relying on actors. For live training of medical school students to do pelvic exams, one institution reports employing prostitutes as exam subjects. An ideal place to site a medical simulation training center is in an under-utilized student union. That will put students in the building who will then buy food and drink. You get the space, the union gets business.

- From Tradeline’s Academic Medical Centers 2007 Conference

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