What our customers have to say:
Bobbie's course was amazing. She really took the time to make sure you understood how she made the effects she was showing via power point. The fact that we each received moulage equipment to learn or upgrade our skills was invaluable to the course. I would recommend that anyone needing or wanting to learn the art of moulage, whether for live actor patients or high fidelity manikins, should go through one of Bobbie's programs, or better yet bring her to your facility to teach. This training covers all aspects of medical education, from mass casualty, to pre hospital trauma to combat trauma. All educators dealing with simulation based medical education can learn something from one of Bobbie's courses. Highly skilled in her field Bobbie's teaching approach is by far the best I've encountered and it was a true pleasure to spend the day in her course!
R. Vance Nesbitt Coordinator Simulations Lab
Military Medical Training Center Scottsdale Healthcare
Scottsdale, Az.
Bobbie Merica is a genius in the world of moulage. Her knowledge and expertise is beyond compare. Bobbie is an extremely professional individual and working with her was an amazing and educational experience. As a medical photographer, my work with Bobbie taught me an amazing amount about simulations and their use in clinical skills training. The up-and-coming field of simulations and moulage has become very important in my work with doctors in medical colleges and hospitals and I am glad to have worked with the best.
Jason Torres, Jtorresphoto.com
J. Torres Photography
N.Y. Vintage Cameraworks Ltd.
Bobbie was instrumental in starting our simulation program. When she arrived our equipment and supplies were in the cabinet and had not been used for simulation learning opportunities. Bobbie, in collaboration with site support, set up an entire simulation center. She meet with the faculty as a whole to share a co-constructed vision, and she met with each faculty to develop simulation activities to meet the learning objectives for each course. She also worked with the local hospital in offering simulation to meet their educational needs. She advised on the design of a simulation center in the new building. She also contacted and brought in additional expertise to consult on the project. She worked well with the team, and it was an honor to work with such a professional. I only hope that I have the privilege of working with her again!
Toni M. Christopherson, EdD, MSN, RN, CNS, BC
Clinical Education, Practice, and Informatics Director
As we discovered, it takes more than setting up simulators to create a simulation program. While we had SimMan for several years, the program development truly began when Bobbie came on board. Her experience, hard work, and dedication resulted in a highly successful simulation program at Yuba College. Faculty are now able to smoothly integrate simulation into their curricula and the successful development of our program has resulted in plans for a new, larger simulation center. Mrs. Merica’s vision for architectural design and knowledge of the complex systems has resulted in a new state-of-the art simulation center in that will be ready in August. Bobbie's understanding of the complexities, tools and equipment along with the role simulation can play in our curriculum has resulted in meaningful education for our nursing students and her purposeful vision for our simulation program has been successfully threaded into our program. In addition, Bobbie’s use of moluage techniques has taken the scenario beyond a patient human simulator experience. The realism of sight, sound, touch, and smell takes the nursing students into the real world of nursing and has exceeded all expectations of what we could do in a scenarios. Without a doubt, Bobbie has enriched our nursing education experience; with her dedication, the simulation center becomes a medical facility and the simulation mannequin has come to life.
Professor Lynette Garcia, RN, BSN
Yuba College, School of Nursing
As the Emergency Department Educator at Rideout Hospital, developing good critical thinking skills in new, and old, nurses has always been a difficult goal to achieve. There are certain types of patients that new nurses may never see during their orientation and lecture doesn't always cut it. Moulage Concepts has allowed me to bridge that gap. I was able to create unique scenarios that catered to the individual or create certain patients that were high risk but rarely seen. I highly recommend the addition of Moulage Concepts workshops to any training curriculum.
Eric Morgenroth, RN, CEN, BSN
Clinical Educator, Emergency Department
Fremont-Rideout Health Group
Bobbie Merica has unparalleled moulage/simulation talent. She is incredibly personable, accommodating and able to "think out of the box." The most remarkable example of her abilities occurred when I brought my entire paramedic class to her center and she set up five concurrent simulations, tailored for EMS. The students found it the most valuable skills experience of the semester. Her feedback and evaluation tools were valuable to me as an instructor. Her moulage skills and ability to set up lifelike situations is second only to the real deal in the field.
Belinda Schafer RN/MICN
Paramedic Program Director
Butte Community College
Bobbie is THE go-to person for all my moulage related questions. Having taken her moulage class as a technician I quickly learned how quickly moulage makeup can be for dramatically increasing realism in my simulations. Not only that, but Bobbie showed us just how easy and fun creating moulage can be! Since that time, Bobbie and I have connected through our love of sharing knowledge with the simulation community through my website: HealthySimulation.com . As the healthcare simulation industry develops it's great to be friends with a fellow pioneer like Bobbie and MoulageConcepts.com!
Lance Bailey, BA
Director, Clinical Simulation Center, UNLV
Owner, HealthySimlations.com
