Medical students at the University of Aberdeen are benefitting from new technology that recreates a realistic emergency situation.
The room can be made into any clinical environment, from an operating theatre to an intensive care environment to put students through their paces.
Patients - either interactive dummies that can speak and display symptoms, or real volunteer actors - ensure that medical students can interact and respond to a changing situation in real time.
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Dr Craig Brown, said: "It makes it feel very real for the students that are involved and allows them to practice techniques, different consultations in a safe way.
"Our goal is to make learning systematic rather than opportunistic. We know when our students are on the wards, that not every student will see, for example, a pediatric patient or a patient in obstetrics. But with the immersion room we can tailor that throughout our curriculum to give them the experiences that we know that they need to have to be able to graduate as a junior doctor."
Medical student Lily Davida said: "It’s as realistic as you can get without actually being in the hospital. This mannequin’s fantastic. It blinks, you can hear the breath sounds, the heart sounds, you can even feel pulses on him.
"We do work with real patients from Fourth Year when we’re on placement on the wards but I think when people are more unwell and there is an emergency then medical students would maybe take more of an observer role in that situation in real life.
The immersion room gets us stepping forward from that observer role, into the role of a Foundation Year 1 doctor who will be doing things and then escalating matters to a senior doctor."
Medical student Reuben Burgess, added: "The benefit of the immersion room is that we're able to do what we think is the right thing. We're able to be cognitively overloaded, do things wrong, get feedback as to why we did things wrong, so that when we do them in practice, in a very short period of time, we'll be able to have done those things ahead of time and know what we can do better."