Simulation techniques have entered a medical education system, have become an integral and mandatory part of training and have proved their efficiency. Before applying practical skills of clinical work to real patients, students acquire these skills in special centers equipped with high-tech simulators and computerized mannequins that allow them to model clinical situations and hone skills in a number of medical procedures, especially in emergencies.

The premises of the center should be adapted to the fact that the formats of knowledge submission are constantly changing and include scenarios of simulation in a full-fledged “living” environment, lectures, small and large group discussions as well as practical exercises with feedback.

The main advantages of using a simulation center to train medical students are:
- safety: students feel safe using skills in a simulation center, they do not worry that their mistake may cause pain or harm to a real patient;
- cooperation: students develop teamwork skills with their colleagues by changing roles in simulation;
- confidence: students’ confidence increases by the repeated use of simulation techniques, working out all algorithms and absence of stress that facilitates their further work with a real patient;
- efficient feedback: teachers and instructors have an opportunity to set up simulations, dispute the students’ decisions and actions during simulations and give feedback afterwards. In turn the students feel that they are efficiently practising their professional skills.

Relevance for implementation in Ukraine:
1. Medical university students. Consolidation of theoretical knowledge and practising it before clinical practice.
2. Postgraduate education and advanced training of doctors. The current reform of the health care system in Ukraine provides for the reorganization of emergency medical care, in which existing hospitals will be reorganized into Intensive Care Hospitals of levels 1 and 2 with the mandatory organization of Emergency Departments. Therefore, forming a pool of corresponding specialists of such departments and their training is currently a key issue.