When a critical patient presents, the most important role of the provider is to quickly and correctly figure out what is wrong and determine a course of action to stabilize the patient.

Correctly diagnosing a patient and formulating a treatment plan requires navigating a very complicated decision tree.

Practicing this complex task is essential, but providers clearly can’t practice on real patients. Instead they rely on observation, discussion, book learning – and simulation.

Since the 1960’s educators have used life-sized medical mannikins to create realistic scenarios for students to practice. Today this is a billion dollar industry.

These simulations usually focus on teamwork and a blend of decision-making and hands-on skills. They usually require supporting staff and a dedicated facility. Consequently while they are high-quality experiences, they often are infrequent.

By creating a learning environment with a host of possible actions and diagnoses combined with a library of sick patients and a unique scoring rubric for case – it becomes possible to recreate the medical decision-making process in software.

With virtually unlimited opportunities for simulation practice, you can increase the frequency of simulation training at a fraction of the cost of traditional simulation.

Our cases are created by board certified physicians and medical educators. Our chief clinical advisor is an emergency medicine attending at Massachusetts General Hospital with 15 years experience in simulation education and assessment.

We started by building our case authoring tool, Minerva Designer. The Designer makes it easy to create unique clinical scenarios by modifying an existing template. It contains a rich library of default actions, clinical results and images. In the future we aim to make this available to subscribers, allowing anyone to create their own cases.

Minerva Medical Simulation is dedicated to the mission of bringing medical simulation to the widest possible audience; to improving quality in medical training and thus overall quality in patient care.

The company was formed in 2016 in the epicenter of medical care & technology in the United States – Boston, MA.

• Continual case development for critical diagnoses
• Ever-increasing simulation fidelity
• Move beyond emergency medicine into other roles & specialities
• Individual learner portfolios and milestone assessments
• Residency program performance tracking and flipped classroom materials
More 3D scenes and patients, improved realism