SIMStation Guide
This guide is designed to help faculty become comfortable with SIMStation quickly and confidently. It focuses on the core functions you'll use during scheduled simulation and debrief sessions — you don't need to know every feature to run a great session. Simulation Lab staff are available to provide hands-on training and support.
SIMStation is the platform used to operate, record, and review simulation activities. It manages live camera feeds, microphones, recording, media playback, and debriefing from a single system.
During a scheduled simulation session, faculty use SIMStation to:
- Start and stop recording
- Monitor live video from the simulation room
- Monitor and adjust audio as needed
- Play scenario-assigned media or audio
- Mark key moments for debriefing
- Control playback during debrief
All sessions are pre-scheduled and pre-configured by simulation staff. Cameras, microphones, scenarios, media, and room assignments are already in place. Faculty do not build or configure the system, but they do actively operate it during the session.
SIMStation is designed to support real-time facilitation while automatically synchronizing audio, video, and media for debriefing and review.
Login Screen
When the control room PC or debrief tablet is active, the SIMStation software is already running ...
Dashboard – Favorites & Calendar
The SIMStation dashboard provides quick access to applications and scheduled sessions. SIMStat...
Recording App
The recording app can be viewed as either a 1-screen setup (located in the 201K Monitoring Room) ...
Features of the Recording App
Video Pane Control Pane Tool Pane App Menu Pane 1. Video Pane Room TabsDuring a ...
Annotations (Recording)
Annotating the events in the simulation room is one of the central tasks of the SIMStation Softwa...
Checklists (Recording)
While annotations are a real-time description/commentary of the simulation, checklists are a mean...
Media Screens (Recording)
Media screens are PCs with monitors installed in the simulation room that enable the transmission...
Audio to Room (Recording)
Audio to Room is an audio channel from the control room to the simulation room. Via this channel,...
Audio of Patient (Recording)
Like Audio to Room, Audio of Patient is an audio channel from the control room to the simulation ...
Transmission (Recording)
This tool panel allows the real-time control of the video stream view in the transmission room. ...
Audience (Recording)
This tool panel can be used to display text formats, such as the clinical vignette, for the audie...
Debriefing
By default, debriefing is controlled using the debriefing app on the SIMStation Remote Tablet. Th...
Presentation
With this app, you can accompany a presentation with those media files that the Simulation Lab ...
Room Cast
The Room Cast app is similar in functionality to the Presentation app. The only difference is t...