This is a feature story exploring the benefits of high-fidelity simulation in education for medical lab technologists. The story opens with a recap of the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, where all 140 victims treated in hospitals survived because mass casualty simulations had been practiced years beforehand. Next, I explore the benefits of new technology at the undergraduate level of education at the only institution in Canada devoted exclusively to applied health sciences. Rather than covering simulation in big hospitals to address simulation on the job as the next section, I profiled a unique mobile simulation program in the remote area of Northern Alberta, where they have created their own mass hemorrhage protocol scenario and run it at 44 different sites using fake blood.
