PRESS AND MEDIA
Operative Experience- Redefining Medical Training Through High-Fidelity Simulation
June 2026
Medline Review — Read the latest profile of Operative Experience in this issue of Medline Review, which explores how the company develops advanced simulation technologies that replicate real medical scenarios, enabling healthcare professionals and emergency responders to practice complex procedures with a level of realism that closely mirrors clinical practice.
Changing the Game. OEI Revolutionizes Trauma Care Training with a Cost-Effective, Purpose-Built TCCS Tier 3 Simulator
April 2026
In late 2025, Operative Experience Inc. (OEI) identified a pressing and increasing need among their customers for cost-effective, high-quality medical simulators. In response, their team unveiled the answer to the market’s demands just a few months later. In March, OEI released the TCCS Tier 3 Pro trauma simulator, the first product of its kind in the industry.
Read how OEI is making waves with their newest high-fidelity, male and female tactical care simulator purpose-built for TCCC Tier 3 training requirements:
National Midwifery Week: Advancing Skills and Confidence Through Simulation
October 6, 2025
National Midwifery Week — a time to honor the dedicated professionals who play such a vital role in maternal and infant health. For leaders in maternal health—clinical educators, department heads, hospital administrators, and midwifery program directors—this week provides an opportunity to recognize the profound impact of midwives and recommit to supporting their critical work.
Air National Guard Makes Huge Investment in Operative Experience Medical Training Technology
European Military Medical Services Magazine. 2025
Operative Experience, Inc. (OEI) is collaborating with the Air National Guard (ANG) on a historic investment transforming medical training for all Guardsmen. In this first-of-its-kind project, OEI will place 206 high- fidelity TCCS Plus Pro male and female medical simulators at 103 ANG sites across the USA.
“Investing in a suite of TCCS Plus Pro simulators at every base demonstrates the Air National Guard’s deep, unwavering commitment to medical proficiency across the ranks. It’s a milestone for the military that will provide the highest level of education to service members,” said Lou Oberndorf, OEI’s Chairman and CEO.
Innovation and Dependability: How Operative Experience is Redefining Customer Service
October 2025
How far will Operative Experience, Inc. (OEI) go to ensure a great customer service experience? For the USNS Comfort, they dispatched a team of technicians immediately, meeting the U.S. Navy hospital ship when it docked stateside at the Port of Miami during an international deployment. OEI’s team of service professionals stand head and shoulders above the competition, clocking in with better customer satisfaction, appreciable minimization of downtime, and superior product expertise.
Listen to the conversation on OEI’s SimPods podcast.
Historic Delivery: Air National Guard Makes Huge Investment in Medical Training
May 2025
This year, Operative Experience, Inc. (OEI) will place a total of 206 high-fidelity TCCS Plus Pro male and female medical simulators at 103 Air National Guard sites nationwide. If it sounds like a big project, that’s because it is. This visionary undertaking is the first of its kind in the military space.
Listen to the conversation on OEI’s SimPods podcast.
U.S. Army Places PCCS Pro Female Simulators in all Training Facilities
October 2024
This past month, Operative Experience made medical and military history with its groundbreaking and innovative simulator, the Prolonged Casualty Care Female Simulator (PCCS Pro), the first of its kind to be accredited by the U.S. Army. To ensure that women service members receive appropriate and quality medical care in the field, the Army has placed PCCS Pro Female mannequins in all 23 of their Medical Simulation Training Centers
Listen to the conversation on OEI’s SimPods podcast.
Changing landscapes of military conflicts require rethinking casualty care for our wounded. Is the U.S. ready?
November 2023
On the battlefield, care providers have what is called a “golden hour’ to apply their life-saving skills at the point of injury before handing off to a fully equipped military field hospital.
Senior Military leadership are warning that future conflicts with near-peer adversaries such as China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and others will create a “tyranny of distance” that will impair the quick evacuation of wounded combatants to a higher level of medical care.
Listen to the conversation on OEI’s SimPods podcast.
Army's New "Female" Medical Simulators Teach Medics not to Hesitate
Task and Purpose Magazine. September 2024
Read the latest article from Task & Purpose about PCCS Pro Female’s recent accreditation and procurement to all Army MSTCs and the impact of fielding an anatomically accurate female trauma simulator on improved outcomes for female patients on the battlefield.
The Army initially plans on procuring PCCS Pro Female simulators for all 23 MSTC centers throughout the US starting in September 2024.
Grounded in history, going forward with innovation
March 2023
Operative Experience Inc. is no newcomer to simulation-based training. In fact, it began on those very shoulders of earlier generations of simulation-based pioneers. OEI’s Chairman and CEO, Lou Oberndorf, has a long history of pioneering in patient simulation.
We take a look at how that history has helped mold Operative Experience into a healthcare simulation leader with a passion for innovation.
Listen to the conversation on OEI’s SimPods podcast.
Simulation Relevance to Prolonged Field Care Criticality
Combat and Casualty Care Magazine. Winter 2023
Medics have what is called a “golden hour’ to apply their life-saving skills at the point of injury before handing off to a military field hospital. Unfortunately, that golden hour may turn into Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC) during Large Scale Combat Operation (LSCO) making evacuation of wounded over greater distances more difficult.
Combat and Casualty Care Magazine explore the role of the latest patient simulators such as the recently released PCCS Pro for training prolonged casualty care scenarios.
Operative Experience PCCS Pro: First Female Trauma Manikin Approved by U.S. Military
Healthy Simulation. October 2024
Operative Experience (OEI), a leader in healthcare simulation solutions, on September 18, 2024, announced that its Prolonged Casualty Care (PCCS Pro) Female simulator for trauma care training recently passed operational testing and has been accredited and authorized for procurement by the U.S. Army. The Army’s operational testing program conducts independent operational tests of new and emerging technologies that will improve a soldier’s capabilities on the modern-day battlefield.