A theater inspired the Clinical Simulation Center in Jacksonville, Fla., in which emotion plays a powerful role in the learning process and performed activities, according to an article on the Contract magazine website.

Activities are performed within a series of mocked-up hospital and clinical rooms where they are critiqued both inside the room and in less formal spaces. 

The less formal review is conducted in a "blue room" that holds six to eight people, an instructor, comfortable chairs, and audiovisual screens where trainees can relive their actions on the screen and receive instructors’ input.

A proscenium portal allows a spatial transition to the simulation environments fabricated as near exact replicas of existing hospital spaces. This design helps to engender the same emotions and muscle memory retention associated with a real experience, the article said.  

The design of the new center integrates and supports patient care, research and education. Graphics included in the project reinforce the idea of repetitive motion or muscle memory. 

Read the article.