The Catholic University of Murcia has six clinical simulators, training tools that have bet from its inception, and are now reinforced by the signing of a collaboration agreement with the company Medical Simulator, with which the educational institution has already collaborating for five years.
The simulator of pregnant CAE Lucina -with a physiological model of both the mother and the child-, the clinical reasoning table Body Interact and Sectra, an interactive solution for clinical image training, are some of the simulators of this company with the that the students of the UCAM are formed, and now they will add some glasses for the training in ultrasound through the Microsoft HoloLens glasses-.
The UCAM will be one of the first universities in Spain to have this technology.
The agreement has been signed by José Luis Mendoza, president of the Catholic University, and Álvaro Closas, general director of Medical Simulator Spain and Portugal.
In addition, Manuel Párraga, director of the Chair of Simulation and Clinical Skills of the UCAM, and Jerónimo Lajara, dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, were present at the event.
Párraga has highlighted the importance of this type of simulators in the training of future professionals and active personnel in the health area.
"It is a tool that greatly enhances the correct work before a serious patient," he said, adding that it is a training tool and not a simple vehicle for it.
For his part, the General Director of Medical Simulator in Spain and Portugal, has shown his satisfaction for being able to collaborate with "an innovative university".
"We want to maintain the line of innovation that we have been developing with the UCAM, providing technology and a comprehensive vision to nursing and medical students, positioning them and training them to prevent them from making mistakes in clinical practice tomorrow," he said.
Source: UCAM