About Us

Mission Statement

MSR employs advanced simulation-based training modalities that enable healthcare providers to effectively improve their clinical and communication skills, thereby creating a safer, more ethical and humanistic, patient-centered culture of treatment.  

MSR is a world leader in Simulation-Based Medical Education (SBME) and patient safety training.  Simulation modalities – whether sophisticated robotics, surgical simulators or role-playing actors – are uniquely effective for training and assessing the core skills of medical professionals across the healthcare spectrum, without placing patients at risk during the process. As a pioneer in the medical simulation field for over a decade, MSR is now an acknowledged leader in a growing network that is transforming medical education and risk management in Israel and worldwide.

As Israel’s only national multi-modality, interdisciplinary simulation center, MSR is authorized to conduct mandatory courses and regulatory licensing exams in various clinical fields. Since its establishment in 2001 by Prof. Amitai Ziv, at the Sheba Medical Center, MSR has trained and tested over 19,000 healthcare professionals in over sixty diverse training programs.

Training at MSR reinforces clinical proficiency, teamwork, communication and other essential skills critical to patient safety. MSR’s simulations of extreme and challenging medical scenarios are presented with sufficient fidelity to achieve suspension of disbelief in trainees, delivering a highly effective cognitive experience. 

• MSR is recognized by the American Heart Association as an International Training Centre (ITC) for BLS, PALS and ACLS courses.

• MSR also received ACS Accreditation by the American College of Surgeons (ACS)

MSR's Story 

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Training Programs

Clinical Skills    

MSR's programs make extensive use of the newest and most sophisticated technologies available in the field of medical simulation. Full-scale simulation systems including computerized full-body physiological mannequins, part-task and advanced task trainers, as well as actors playing simulated patients. All these enable hands-on experiential training in a wide variety of clinical domains including Anesthesia, Surgery, Cardiology, Ob-Gyn, Trauma, and Chemical & Biological Warfare Management.

Communications Skills

MSR offers a number of medical simulation programs dedicated to enhancing the communication skills of healthcare professionals. MSR uses simulated patients (role playing actors) to teach the challenging tasks of delivering bad news, obtaining informed consent and the detection of domestic abuse, among others. MSR employs more than 100 simulated patients ranging in age from adolescence to the elderly. All of MSR's simulated patients are specially trained to accurately replicate a wide range of medical conditions and behaviors. The use of simulated patients allows for a more intimate and authentic interpersonal training environment.

Faculty Development

MSR offers an array of faculty development workshops for healthcare teams and individuals who are interested and involved in simulation-based training. These workshops are tailored for professionals with limited time and resources. By the end of the workshops, participants are able to implement the learned methodologies and techniques in their own training programs.