The college acquired the simulator two weeks ago.

The Virginian Pilot reports.

North Carolina college gets new ambulance simulator for realistic training

Emergency medicine instructor Mildred Weaver activated the lifelike, 200-pound mannequin in the back of the new ambulance simulator at College of The Albemarle.

She had also powered up another mannequin lying on a stretcher in the labjust outside. It was the first time her class would get to use the mannequins and simulator together, and they learned quickly, programming life signs into the human-shaped device.

“Does he have a carotid pulse?” Weaver asked.

A quick “yes” came from the mannequin on the stretcher, startling a few students nearby. Student Theodore Foresythe, with a slight smile, had made it respond using the companion computer.