The “Clinical Simulation & Skills Lab” of Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College was established in the year 2013 with the aim to:-
- To provide a safe, protected, and learner-friendly environment in which the learner can practice various medical skills before using them in real clinical settings.
- To provide actual training of clinical procedures in a safe and fault-forging environment prior to real-life application at the bedside or in the operating room thus ideally creating an atmosphere that allows the repeated, anxiety and risk-free practice of targeted skills.
- Helps learn and develop clinical reasoning skills, and psychomotor surgical skills.
- To help understand complex clinical concepts and decision-making and apply appropriate procedural or Surgical skills by simulating these through Models, Mannequins, Instruments, and simulators
- Thus it aims at building competent and safe Clinicians and Surgeons.
- Developing clinical and interventional skills of Undergraduate and postgraduate Medical students, Junior Surgeons, and physicians. So that they become proficient, safe & skilled doctors.
- To enhance these clinical skills through regular practice.
- To enhance the quality of teaching & learning of medical students to raise the standards of medical education.
- To bring clarity & objectivity in learning & teaching.
The DPU Clinical Simulation & Skills Lab is situated on the 3rd Floor of the Hi-tech hospital building. It has briefing & debriefing Rooms, Demonstration Rooms, Standardised Patient Simulation Rooms plus a Simulated ICU Emergency Room, Task Training Rooms, Laparoscopy and Endoscopy, and Arthroscopy Stations. This has High Fidelity Computerized & manual Mannequins & also has models for U G, PG, and Superspeciality Training. It has High-speed Internet and Modern Audio-Visual teaching aids. This is utilized for Lectures, Audio-Video presentations & online teaching sessions of the Skills Lab. The Clinical Simulation & Skills Lab is used by all Para clinical & Clinical departments for their teaching & learning needs & is open from Monday to Saturday.
