A new facility will allow Royal Flying Doctor Service Staff to be dropped in the outback from a small training room in the city.
The $100,000 centre is the first of its kind in Australia to be used for health care and means skills and team scenarios can be played out by staff as though they were on the ground in far-flung locations.
It is equipped with audio and immersive visual technology along with Mary, a life-like mannequin with eyes and pupils that move and blink and can be altered to show signs of an overdose or head injury.