LeadAmerica students who attend the Medicine & Healthcare Conferences at Johns Hopkins University will attend the University of Maryland MASTRI Center. MASTRI is The Maryland Advanced Simulation, Training, Research and Innovation Center established to provide cutting-edge simulation and training to surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and allied healthcare professionals. The center employs both low- and high-fidelity simulators for surgery, anesthesia, and trauma procedures. The students will also be exposed to their sophisticated patient simulators which are used to train anesthetists, trauma surgeons, nursing personnel of several disciplines, medics, EMT’s, and urgent care providers. These simulators are far from simple mannequins; these life-sized “virtual patients” have pulses, respiration, and a physiology that reacts to stimuli including drugs, simulated disease, and basic interventional medical procedures such as thoracostomy, trachestomy, and defibrillation.