DOVER — The PCOM Simulation Center at Bayhealth recently received provisional accreditation by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

This recognition is given to programs that demonstrate compliance with core and teaching standards. Bayhealth will seek full accreditation once the center is open for more than two years, per the society’s requirements.

The facility, which opened in October 2022, is at Bayhealth Hospital, Kent Campus and boasts a state-of-the-art training site designed to provide an immersive learning environment for medical students, residents and other health care professionals.

The 10,000-square-foot space includes an operating room, an emergency bay, inpatient/outpatient flex locations, classrooms, debriefing rooms and a hybrid conference room.

Students, residents and nurses get hands-on training using full-body mannequins that can mimic human responses to trauma and critical care scenarios, allowing clinicians to hone their craft and use the latest techniques in patient care before seeing patients in person.

The simulation center is part of Bayhealth’s Graduate Medical Education program. With more than 70 residents in family medicine, internal medicine, general surgery and emergency medicine, the center sees a steady rotation of doctors using the space to enhance skills.