As another year draws to a close, one theme has stood out more strongly than ever – medical educators are going to greater lengths to source and secure the best possible products for their training needs.
Over the last 12 months, we’ve launched new products, collaborated closely with professors and consultants, and contributed to projects that are transforming patient outcomes.
Our team has travelled across the world, from Florida to Australia, from Valencia to Singapore, and the length and breadth of the UK, attending conferences, society events and supplier/distributor visits.
And through all of those conversations and experiences, the increased commitment to delivering high-quality, high-value learning experiences has shone through.
Even as budgets tighten, medical educators are prioritising products that offer maximum educational value for the money available, without compromising on realism, durability or quality.
This value-driven approach reflects a wider shift within healthcare education, and it’s one we share wholeheartedly.
Throughout 2025, we have added several budget-friendly solutions to our ranges that offer maximum value, including products that help medical trainers enhance their existing equipment in cost-effective ways.
Budget-friendly ‘Simulation Suite in a Box’
A major highlight for us in that respect was adding SimClever™ to our product offering. This innovative range of software and devices quickly and easily transforms manikins, task trainers or standardised patients into a mid-fidelity learning experience.
Portable and modular, SimClever™ provides a cost-effective way to enhance teaching, without investing tens of thousands of pounds in high-fidelity systems.
Affordable auscultation simulation
We were also delighted to introduce a new auscultation simulation model to give healthcare educators a realistic, high-quality, yet competitively-priced option for teaching this essential clinical skill.
The Auscultation Simulator 2 from Sakamoto Model Corporation enables students to learn and practise with true-to-life heart and breath sounds, helping them build foundational competencies early in their training.
Task trainers built to last
Sometimes, maximum value comes from long-term durability. It means making sure clinical skills task trainers are built to withstand constant, repetitive use. That’s why we launched the new BIOTME collection of ultrasound simulators.
Made from a specialist material that mimics human tissue with exceptional realism, the trainers are engineered to be hard-wearing and reliable, with self-sealing, refillable veins, and disappearing needle traces.
At the forefront of medical education
Alongside solutions for everyday skills training, we have continued collaborating with senior clinicians to create new or enhanced teaching aids that reflect the latest medical knowledge.
One notable launch this year was Debra Enhanced, Impacted Fetal Head Simulator. Developed in partnership with leading clinicians, including Dr Graham Tydeman, this improved model helps obstetric teams practise what to do when a baby’s head becomes lodged deep in the mother’s pelvis during late stage emergency caesarean births.
Transforming patient outcomes
It’s also been inspiring to see some brilliant examples of how our training solutions are actively improving patient care around the real world.
In Australia, our Hungry Manikin Paediatric Nasogastric Feeding Trainer has already helped around 100 people learn how to safely use nasogastric tubes with children as part of a world-first course, now being rolled out globally.
The Koken Age Simulation Suit is giving community-based carers a deeper understanding into how they can support older people to remain safely at home. And some of our teeth models have been helping to raise awareness of the importance of dental and oral hygiene.
The future of simulation in healthcare
While 2025 has been a significant year for medical education and simulation in healthcare, we expect the focus on value for money, improved patient outcomes, and simulation as a core teaching method, to continue in 2026.
ASPiH has launched a whole programme exploring what makes a simulation truly transformative and how meaningful change can be driven.
Simulation also features prominently in the new NHS 10 Year Health Plan for England, and we’ll be watching closely as those plans develop, to see what they mean for the way healthcare is taught.
Internally, we’re preparing to launch our new Enhanced Digital Eye and Ear Examination models early in the New Year, marking an another exciting development in the Adam,Rouilly product ranges.
We’ll also be heading straight into events season, kicking off the year with IMSH in San Antonio, followed closely by a Nasco training event and the WHX World Health Expo (previously known as Arab Health), in Dubai in February.
We look forward to another year of innovation, collaboration and improving clinical training experiences, while always putting value, realism and educational impact at the heart of everything we do.
