Virtual simulation allows students to perform their first skills, and healthcare professionals to keep their knowledge updated by practicing virtually, so as to be optimally prepared to manage a patient. It is by being faced with a situation that one really learns how to deal with it. 

Virtual simulation also enables the presentation of rare pathologies which a healthcare professional may only see once in his/her career.  Virtual simulation allows learning by trial and error without any consequences for real patients and provides an immersive learning experience.

Practicing procedures, discussing therapeutic decision making, training virtually for complex situations – all are educational objectives to which virtual simulation brings an innovative and relevant contribution, with the advantage of being adaptable to new forms of training:  at a distance, alone, in a group etc.