Saskatoon Institute for Medical Simulation

Our company is the Saskatoon Institute for Medical Simulation Incorporated (SIMS) and we are Saskatchewan’s first private medical simulation company targeting licensed medical professionals. The focus of our organization is to improve quality and access to training opportunities for licensed medical professionals across Saskatchewan including, but not limited to physicians, nurses, paramedics, firefighters and first responders. Simulation technology is an emerging training tool used to educate health care professionals in the skills and knowledge needed for increasing patient safety and providing optimum patient care. Medical simulation represents technology that replicates human physiology and allows for students and professionals to train in a no risk environment in order to practice high acuity, low frequency situations. Our focus is to provide medical simulation training for in-hospital, pre-hospital and disaster planning situations.