Yes. Acadicus includes full scene editing tools and an expansive library of devices, instruments and patients, we generally recommend allocating some budget for development of new scenarios.
However, creation of completely new scenarios may require assets or interactivity we don’t currently have available. In this case, we provide instructors with our Simulation Plan template that helps convey the intended simulation narrative, along with a description of the patient, patient animations, devices (and their desired functionality), and exhibits such as imaging and lab results, etc. Our team would then use this Simulation Plan to prepare a scene for you. If the preparation requires assets or functionality we don’t yet have, we will provide an estimate of the development cost, along with a substantial discount if the content created can be shared with other users of Acadicus. In many cases, we don’t charge anything for this development, or only enough to cover a small amount of our development expenses. This funding method ensures our development priorities are in alignment with our end users.
Once the scene is complete, the editing tools can be used by instructors to easily customize, refine or add to the simulation over time. This is where the scene editing tools are most useful, rather than attempting to build a complete scenario from scratch.