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The University of Murcia has inaugurated on Tuesday the new area of ​​simulation that allows to improve the training of those who study medicine career thanks to high fidelity mannequins that imitate the behavior of patients with different pathologies and other tools that facilitate a similar training possible to the reality of clinical practice.
This area of ​​clinical simulation is located in the Laib building, next to the Arrixaca, and is the advance of what will be the Integrated Simulation Center of the University of Murcia that will join the Faculties of Medicine and Nursing and that will be definitively located in the new classroom that is being built in the Campus of Health Sciences.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by the rector of the UMU, José Luján;
the dean of Medicine, Carmen Robles;
and the Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas.
The vice-rector of Infrastructures, Belén López Morales, and the vice-rector of Health Sciences, Luis Vicente García-Marcos Álvarez, also attended.
The facilities consist of two simulation rooms, a double control room, two debriefing rooms and three clinical skills rooms.
The simulation rooms are equipped with four high and medium fidelity Advanced Life Support Simulators;
It is about adult mannequins and a baby that are capable of recreating all kinds of pathologies.
Thanks to them, students will be able to learn advanced patient management techniques in situations of arrhythmia, venous channeling or trauma situations.
In addition, students can also count on low and medium fidelity equipment for the practice of integrated CPR, defibrillation, cardioversion and real pacemakers, pulse palpation, intraosseous and intramuscular, etc.
In the control rooms, through computer equipment, the whole simulation procedure is interacted and supervised.
In the debriefing rooms, the simulated clinical experiences are analyzed and are equipped with interactive multifunction screens that, by means of a video system, collect the activity that is being carried out in the simulation rooms.
The participants explore, analyze and synthesize their actions and thought processes and emotional states, among other aspects, to improve performance in real situations.
One of the issues on which students will work more will be in improving their communication skills with patients and family members in complex situations;
it is about giving the most human point to patient medical treatment.
The classrooms of skills count on numerous material destined to acquire great amount of necessary clinical competitions for student of the Degree in Medicine.
These classrooms have intubation, delivery, thoracic drainage, catheterization, auscultation, pneumothorax, lumbar puncture, tract, etc.
In the journey that the authorities have made through the simulation area, it has been possible to see how the tools will allow those who study medicine to learn all kinds of techniques;
from detecting breast and ovarian tumors to correct intubation.
It is that before they come into contact with real patients they have mastered the techniques.
"The methodology of clinical simulation is based on learning from our mistakes and these mistakes we have to make here, in a space that is safe, that is controlled and in which no patient is going to be harmed," he said. Gracia Adánez, coordinator of the simulation area of ​​the Faculty of Medicine.
These facilities, at the height of the best areas of clinical simulation in the country, are the first step for the creation of a healthcare center in the new classroom that is being built in the Campus of Health Sciences and that will provide service to the different qualifications of the sanitary area.
As explained by the dean of Medicine, Carmen Robles, this center is a health care service whose purpose is to enable, through the use of standardized patients through mannequins, the acquisition of clinical skills and skills and teamwork of science students of Health, as a complement to clinical practices with real patients and in compliance with legislation on the right to privacy of patients.
In addition, research and knowledge transfer tasks can be developed in this center.
For the simulation facilities it is foreseen that about 1000 students will pass only the degree in Medicine each year, corresponding to the 3rd to 6th grades, with special attention to the 6th year which is of a clinical nature.
For his part, the rector of the UMU stressed that "the Faculty of Medicine has spent 50 years training professionals who enjoy recognized prestige in the region and beyond, at this time our main challenge is to continue the works of the Science campus of Health contiguous to La Arrixaca This campus with all the integrated services has the latest technical advances for the comprehensive education of students, a commitment to research, knowledge transfer and practical training that place us as a benchmark for Region of Murcia ".
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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