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The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation is setting up the $10 million unit at Jacobi Medical Center in the the Bronx, but will serve the training needs of hospitals across the city.

Earlier in the day in Queens, the mayor helped an Elmhurst Hospital medical team with a demonstration of the mannequins, which are designed to mimic patients' breathing, sweating and heartbeats.

Afterwards, he praised the value of simulations in education.

"One of the great things about simulations, and it's certainly true about airplane pilots, is that you're in a room, you're not really flying, but when something goes wrong the adrenaline starts running. Measurements have shown that pilots undergo virtually the same stress during the simulation as during the actual event, and the same thing I'm sure is true here," said the mayor. "People are yelling and screaming, you don't know what's going on, you drop something. It's those kind of things you're learning how to cope with.

The simulation unit, which are modeled on similar units in Harvard University and the Mayo Clinic, will be ready by next fall.