Use our award-winning Auscultation Trainer to helps students develop and refine their clinical skills in auscultation and patient assessment. It offers a hands-on learning experience for students to practice rib palpation, stethoscope placement, and recognizing heart, lung, and bowel sounds before working with real patients. The clear torso details major organs for easy auscultation site identification. To enhance realism, the auscultation sounds engineered to sound correct through a stethoscope. Use the smart device and app to customize practice and assessment sessions.
RealityScope™ attachment affixes to any stethoscope
Clear torso details major organs
Anatomical landmarks built into the trainer
Skin overlay removes easily
Sounds play only when the RealityScope attachment is placed over corresponding auscultation sites
Demonstrate auscultation sounds to a group by listening through the app, or test individual students’ knowledge by listening through the RealityScope attachment
Remove the skin overlay to help beginner students learn the basics, or leave the skin overlay on to assess advanced students’ knowledge
Includes a smart device and app programmed with 21 sounds and over 40 scenarios, such as bradypnea, hyperactive bowels and systolic murmurs
Use this trainer to help students learn to recognize sounds (and make important language connections):
Includes standards-based curriculum plus presentation slides, student activities and assessments
Recognized as a “career readiness solution of the year” by the 2021 EdTech Breakthrough Awards
FAQs
Career Preparation
What careers can the Auscultation Trainer help students prepare for?
Auscultation training is essential to many career options: respiratory care practitioner, patient care technician, sonographer, nursing, EMT, and other healthcare providers that will be listening and diagnosing heart, lung, and bowel sounds.
What types of classes use the Auscultation Trainer?
This trainer would be a benefit to many beginner RN, BSN, and EMS training courses. Some examples of specific classes include practical clinical skills, clinical foundations, pathology, cardiovascular education, and more.
General Usage
How large are the auscultation zones on the trainer?
Based on varying auscultation points, the sounds can be heard over the appropriate anatomical areas. This trainer has over 100 RFID tags inside the torso to define areas corresponding to the associated auscultation sounds. Bowel sounds are represented over a large abdominal area, split into quadrants. Lung sounds are split up by lobe regions and are also heard over a large area. Heart sounds will be heard in a small area, aligning to the proper anatomical region.
How can I use the trainer torso and app with my students?
The app allows users to select what individual sounds to play in their respective trainer torso locations, as well as which conditions to implement in an assessment scenario. Students can conduct independent practice with the trainer torso, and instructors can use the app to edit the assessment mode and create desired scenarios for student testing.
What is the difference between practice and assessment mode?
In practicemode, you choose the scenario you want the user to practice, and they will hear the sounds relevant to that condition when they place their stethoscope over the corresponding auscultation site on the trainer. Unrelated sounds (such as lung sounds during a cardiac scenario) will not be played.
In assessmentmode, users will hear anatomically appropriate sounds wherever they place their stethoscope (lung, heart or bowel sounds) and they are challenged to identify and diagnose the scenario or condition.
What comes with the app?
The app includes a library of more than 40 scenarios that include a variety of heart, lung and bowel sounds. Those scenarios are divided into “practice” and “assessment” modes. In practice mode, students only hear sounds associated with the selected condition. In assessment mode, students hear normal sounds everywhere else except in the affected location on the trainer torso.
How does the RealityScope™ attachment work?
The RealityScope attachment fits on any stethoscope to turn it into a “smart device.” When users place the RealityScope attachment over corresponding auscultation sites on the trainer torso, the correct heart, lung or bowel sound will be heard as the RealityScope attachment communicates to the included app via Bluetooth Technology. Instructors can use the app to control which scenario the students are listening for.
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Do I need a stethoscope to use the Auscultation Trainer?
Because the sound emitting from the RealityScope attachment is designed to be amplified through a stethoscope, we recommend students use their stethoscope with the Auscultation Trainer to ensure realistic practice sessions. Dual-Head Stethoscope 10-Packs can be purchased from Realityworks.
How do I select the best Auscultation training package?
The best package will vary based on the need. If you wish to use the Auscultation Trainer only as a mode of teaching, then the first package that includes one of everything should be enough. If you wish to use the Auscultation Trainer as a hands-on learning tool among multiple groups of students, then we recommend the class pack.
Is there a risk of interference if there are multiple tablets in the classroom?
No, each RealityScope attachment only interacts with one smart device.
Can the instructor customize practice scenarios?
Yes! The app can be customized to highlight only certain sounds, or independent versus group practice sessions.
How many trainers would you recommend for a 20-student classroom?
We recommend two trainers for a 20-student classroom.
Do you offer product support?
Yes! Our product support team is available M-F 8am-5pm Central Time via phone, email, or chat. Contact customer support here.
Realityworks’ Auscultation Trainers Win Better Future New York Design Awards 20222021 EdTech Breakthrough Award – Overall Career Readiness Solution of the Year – Auscultation Trainer
The Auscultation Trainer is one of the best in its class. My students and I have a model by another company which is very good but for more advanced students only. This Reality Works model is for every level! It is fantastic for my earliest learners with the images of the organs, but is equally challenging for my advanced students when the skin sleeve is placed over the top and they must use palpable landmarks only. Also, the technology is advanced, but simple enough for anyone to use. In addition, the ability to use individual stethoscopes makes disinfection and infection control easy.
Shelby L –
The Auscultation Trainer is one of the best in its class. My students and I have a model by another company which is very good but for more advanced students only. This Reality Works model is for every level! It is fantastic for my earliest learners with the images of the organs, but is equally challenging for my advanced students when the skin sleeve is placed over the top and they must use palpable landmarks only. Also, the technology is advanced, but simple enough for anyone to use. In addition, the ability to use individual stethoscopes makes disinfection and infection control easy.