The hospital is real but the patients and medical dramas that unfold within its walls are not.
The Riverland Clinical Simulation Centre is part of a Flinders University program to train the next generation of health care professionals.
Located in the old operating wing of the Renmark Hospital the simulation centre is the largest of its kind in regional South Australia.
It gives those training to be doctors, nurses and allied health workers the opportunity to learn patient care in an environment that is as close to a working hospital as possible.
"Our patients are actually mannequins and they need to speak to the mannequins like they are patients," Flinders University simulation educator Leanne Rogers said.
"We say that whatever they do in the simulation they do in real life so if they wear gloves and do hand hygiene it's really important they do those things in our learning environment."
Nursing and medical students are not the only ones to benefit from the hands-on centre.
This week a group of Aboriginal secondary students from across the Riverland are getting real life experience of what it is like to work in the health profession.
Their simulated experiences include responding to a vehicle crash.
"We call this our hands on space so we have our lecture theatres where they do their text books, they do their online learning, and when they come into the simulation we actually don't have any classrooms in here, it's about doing," Ms Rogers said.