Bases
Medical simulation is one of the most promising innovative scientific domains worldwide since, with current technical developments, it allows robotics and information architecture and technologies to unite fully with medicine and healthcare. The most noteworthy feature is essentially the ability to change training processes and practical application in critical areas of healthcare and the organization of health teams and units. It is a genuine revolution in medical teaching and in the training of health professionals and teams, as is made clear in the medical literature and by the international exposure of centres dedicated to medical simulation*.
It is an appropriate innovative response to problems sensitive to clinical error and for the healthcare training and practice of individuals and teams, particularly in events that are critical, complex or rare. The ability to reproduce and enlarge medical actions, procedures and drills in a controlled, repeatable and checkable environment, and to do so wholly interactively and in real time, in relation to a range of physiological and pathological states, with human credibility and at no risk to patients, is a powerful tool for ongoing medical education and experiential learning.
Profile of the CSB HUC
The HUC Biomedical Simulation Centre has been established in a public university hospital. It demonstrates the knowledge and innovation potential existing in the National Health Service and its professionals, having met and surmounted the challenges of management, leadership, opportunity, scientific repute and resilience.
Contributing to the greater safety of patients and improved quality of aid in critical healthcare, with a positive impact on public confidence and on the continuous training of health professionals and health teams:
- In the next 3 years this Centre intends to be directly involved in the training of 750 medical students, 2000 doctors and 1500 nurses, with special emphasis on continuing medical education, certification of skills and team practice.
- The Centre will also generate public actions for good practice in health, in particular through training programmes and basic life support training products for public schools, in the hope of reaching tens of thousands of students countrywide.
- Scientific research projects in the clinical, educational and biomedical domains and occasional educational projects with the armed forces and other bodies operating in the sphere of emergencies and civil protection are hugely significant lines of action of great social value.
