If you’ve ever had to submit a vendor request just to update a patient’s dialogue or swap in clinical documentation that matches your own EHR system, you already know the problem Scenario Editor solves. Today, we’re launching Scenario Editor, a new SimX feature that gives healthcare simulation educators direct control over their VR training content, without a development queue, without a technical background, and without waiting on anyone. Customize protocols, medications, learning objectives, and more, all from a browser, in hours.

Scenario Editor addresses a persistent pain point in clinical simulation: the gap between highly polished, professionally built VR content and the specific clinical realities of the institution using it. Until now, facilitators who needed to update patient dialogue, swap in their own EHR screenshots, or adjust assessed competencies had to submit a request to a vendor development team and wait. Scenario Editor eliminates that bottleneck.

“Scenario Editor was built around a simple conviction: the educators closest to the learners should have the power to shape the learning experience. We spent months listening to simulation faculty describe the workarounds they’d invented just to make their scenarios feel real for their students. This tool is our answer to every one of those workarounds, built to be genuinely usable by anyone on a simulation team, regardless of their technical background,” said Sarah Davis, Product Manager at SimX.

How Scenario Editor Transforms Medical Simulation Training

Scenario Editor offers eight core capabilities, all accessible from a standard web browser:

1. Custom patient and NPC dialogue: Control how patients and care team members respond, so learners never hit an immersion-breaking dead end.
2. AI-generated audio: New dialogue is voiced automatically, with production-quality sound and a turnaround of hours rather than weeks.
3. Custom EMR slide uploads: Match your own EHR system, whether Epic, Cerner, or another, for clinically accurate documentation.
4. Editable critical action tracking: Align assessed competencies to your own curriculum and accreditation requirements.
5. Pyxis medication customization: Stock the virtual Pyxis with your actual formulary, not a generic drug list.
6. Editable learning objectives: Tailor goals per cohort, so one scenario serves both novice and advanced learners.
7. Non-destructive versioning: Every edit is saved as a version, with the original scenario always preserved as a baseline.
8. AI Assistant compatible: Customized scenarios run natively with SimX AI Assistant, with no extra setup.

“Simulation only works when learners believe what they’re seeing. The moment a patient responds with something that doesn’t match their institution’s protocol, or a lab value reflects someone else’s EHR, the clinical reality breaks down, and the learning breaks down with it. Scenario Editor closes that gap at the source, enabling educators to ensure every detail of a scenario matches the clinical environment their learners are preparing for. That specificity is what turns a good simulation into genuine clinical readiness,” said Jen Polson, Head of Product at SimX.

The SimX Platform: Built for Every Simulation Program

Scenario Editor is designed for any healthcare simulation program that needs its VR content to reflect its own clinical environment: nursing schools, hospital systems, EMS/pre-hospital programs, and more. No coding expertise is required, making the tool accessible to every member of a simulation faculty team. 

This newest addition further extends SimX’s growing platform of tools and capabilities designed to help simulation programs run more, reach more learners, and deliver richer training experiences without asking more of their faculty.

Get started with Scenario Editor today and make every scenario your own.