Company FAQs
When was METI founded?
METI was founded in 1996 with five employees. The company has grown to include more than 200 employees working together to perfect the technology that is now an integral part of medical education programs around the world.
What does METI do?
Our name says a lot about what we do. We are Medical Education Technologies, Inc.—a company committed to developing learning tools that impact the education of our future doctors, nurses, first responders and military medics. Our goal is to improve patient safety and ultimately save more lives. We are an education company first, and our commitment to providing technologically advanced learning tools—including our complete line of human patient simulators, surgical simulators, exam trainers and the integration platforms educators need to fully alter the learning process—meet the highest standards, which sets us apart and distinguishes us an industry leader.
What do METI simulators do?
METI simulators save lives by providing a learning platform that allows students and practitioners to practice without harming real patients. By offering a variety of simulators that meet the exacting needs of our users, we are able to provide a higher level of measurable skill acquisition for the healthcare industry. Here is how our current products are impacting medical education.
PATIENT SIMULATORS
Human Patient Simulator—HPS®: Anesthesia programs around the globe count on the physiologically-based HPS to reliably train their residents on intubation practices and the delicate nuances of placing a patient under anesthesia. The most prestigious medical colleges and nursing programs look to the Advanced Drug Recognition System of the HPS to provide students with the finer points of medicating patients and monitoring the patient response in real time. The HPS is the gold standard in the medical industry for meeting the Core Competencies outlined by the ACGME and we are continually perfecting the educational value of this product
iStan™: METI's new wireless and tetherless simulator represents the first real breakthrough in medical mannequin technology in the last 30 years. iStan looks, feels and acts so real your students won't even know it's a mannequin. iStan's array of advanced features and breakthrough technology will take your simulation training to a new and exciting level of realism.
Emergency Care Simulator--ECS®: As the world’s most portable human patient simulator, the ECS has set a new standard for medical education by offering the ability to practice life-saving skills in any environment. The ECS touts the same physiology and pharmacology models as its big brother – the HPS – but, at a fraction of the cost.
PediaSIM®: At METI, we know that pediatric patients aren’t just small adults—they are intrinsically different on every level. That’s why the PediaSIM plays such an important role in ensuring that a learner’s first real exposure to the complexities and nuances of treating a critically ill child takes place when the stakes aren’t high and the dangers aren’t real. We believe practice makes perfect.
PediaSIM® ECS®: Life with children is unpredictable! That's why METI created the PediaSIM ECS—the first highly portable pediatric patient simulator that can go anywhere. The PediaSIM ECS was specifically designed to make responding to even the most unexpected critical events in the most unlikely places seem like second nature to your learners—all the while building the skills and the confidence they need to provide safe and effective pediatric patient care.
BabySIM®: BabySIM meets a growing demand for a simulator that can isolate the critical skills medical professionals need before interacting with infants. The BabySIM incorporates our most advanced features—including an accurate airway—and carefully adapts our technology to realistically represent an infant patient.
EXAM SIMULATORS
Pelvic ExamSIM®: The Pelvic ExamSIM is METI’s first exam-oriented simulator, which provides learners with a whole new way to perfect female pelvic examination skills. By creating a platform that offers truly objective and measurable feedback, learners and instructors alike can know first-hand if students are ready to perform proficient and sensitive female pelvic examinations. Using patented Touch-Sensitive™ technology, the ExamSIM opens the mind’s eye to provide a greater overall learning experience.
Breast ExamSIM: Coming soon.
Prostate ExamSIM: Coming soon.
SURGICAL SIMULATORS
SurgicalSIM®: The SurgicalSIM brings together everything we know about medical education and the emerging surgical standardized curricula to deliver a revolutionary training tools for learning: psychomotor skills, physiology of the surgical patient and situational awareness. The SurgicalSIM platform now includes the following simulators:
SurgicalSIM® VR: The SurgicalSIM VR provides the only expandable surgical platform available with advanced life-like surgical anatomy and the most advanced intracorporeal suturing and knot-tying exercises on the market. Its ability to record the learner's performance during each session offers immediate review and feedback for developing surgical skills.
SurgicalSIM® LTS: The METI SurgicalSIM LTS is a self-contained, patent-pending system for testing and training basic skills for laparoscopic surgery. The advantage of SurgicalSIM LTS is that it combines both the haptics-based skills found in a box trainer with the objective assessment capability of virtual-reality systems.
SurgicalSIM® TURP: The METI SurgicalSIM TURP is a virtual-reality-based simulator developed to train and assess the skills necessary to perform a Transurethral Resection of the Prostate or TURP.
METI LiVE®
METI LiVE: LiVE, or Learning in a Virtual Environment, delivers the highest level of medical simulation training, allowing educators to recreate a virtual hospital or disaster event environment with existing patient simulators. Withas few as three simulators, METI LiVE enables one operator to control and transfer patients “virtually” from ER, to OR to ICU and create a real hospital environment or any health care environment with multiple patients in various stages of treatment, multiple points of care and multiple care givers.
TDCK™: Used in tandem with the METI HPS, ECS, iStan or PediaSIM, the TDCK
introduces blood flow, mucus and secreted fluids into a training session.
Instructors can create the drama of crisis scenarios that involve major blood
loss with little set up and a few simple software commands. Real-life reactions
to chemical exposure or major trauma can be simulated right down to the
very last detail.
What are METI’s education and training services?
While it is our mission to always build the very best technology, it is our emphasis on the educational value of our products that truly sets us apart. We believe that integration is the key to our products’ success. That is why we have introduced the METI Learning Modules — a turnkey line of learning packages that help develop meaningful learning experiences with real time applications.
Our current Learning Module packages include:
-Cardiopulmonary Critical Situations—HPS
-Cardiopulmonary Critical Situations—ECS
-Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)—ECS
-Adult Nursing Learning Module (ANLM)—HPS/ECS
-Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)—PediaSIM
-Disaster Medical Readiness (DMR)—HPS/ECS
-Combat Medic Advanced Skills Training (CMAST)—HPS/ECS
-Emergency Medical Services (EMS)—HPS/ECS
Additionally, we offer direct support to our users in the form of education programs that facilitate instructors on how to operate their METI system as well as how to implement this powerful learning tool into their curriculum. Each program was created to help our users learn how to use their simulator and how to make the most of their investment. Currently, we offer the following integration support packages:
-The Program for Nursing Curriculum Integration
-METI Consulting Program
-On-Site Training
-Product Education
How many institutions use METI simulation products?
Worldwide figures for the use of METI simulators are in a constant state of change. Currently, there are more than 2,500 METI simulators in community colleges, nursing schools, medical colleges and universities, hospitals and the military around the world. Many of these institutions have more than one of our simulators on hand, meaning that we are growing exponentially within our own family of current users. For the most accurate numbers, please check out our Installation Lists, which are updated every quarter.
Where can I find METI’s home office?
METI is located on the West Coast of Florida in the beautiful Gulf of Mexico community of Sarasota. We are about an hour south of Tampa Bay. Click here for a map of how to get to our facility.
Medical Education Technologies, Inc.
6000 Fruitville Road
Sarasota, FL 34232
941-377-5562
Does METI have international offices or distributors?
The METI European office is located in the Netherlands, but we also have distributors throughout the world including: South America, Asia, and various parts of Europe.
METI European Office
Medical Education Technologies, Inc.
Laurierstraat 9
1016 PG Amsterdam
The Netherlands+31 621542873
How many people does METI employ?
Currently, there are more over 200 employees at this privately held company, ranging from engineers to a robust sales team that covers our domestic market as well as abroad. We also have an in-house marketing team, customer support, an education and training department and a complete support staff.
Where are the METI simulators manufactured?
Our simulators are engineered, designed and manufactured at our home office in Sarasota, Florida. We are a very hands-on company, and we take a lot of pride in the quality of each and every product we produce.
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