Review article

Educational polygon „Skills lab”

Mirna Bobinac ; Klinika za anesteziologiju i intenzivno liječenje, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Alen Protić ; Klinika za anesteziologiju i intenzivno liječenje, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka

Abstract

Simulators and simulations have become an integral and indispensable part of
medical education and research. Specialized educational polygons for training of certain
medical skills using simulators and simulations, which cannot be fully mastered during stay
at clinical departments or during clinical teaching, exist in most medical schools and university
hospitals in Western Europe and USA. One of the most important segments in the education
of medical students and other health care professionals is cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR). Because of specific importance and inability to learn CPR procedures on patients,
it is necessary to enable students and course trainees education on sophisticated models
(called „dolls or models”) in classroom exclusively created for this purpose. Such educational
polygon, for training of cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedures, was established in
2001. In Rijeka and was named „Skills lab”. Today in the world there is an increasing need
for simulation training centers that are maximally equipped and adapted for education of
non-medical staff („medical-laics”) with a goal to educate people to be able to provide a first
and necessary assistance in CPR at the scene of event.

Keywords

educational polygon; simulation medicine; simulators; Skills lab

Hrčak ID:

112532

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/112532

Publication date:

2.12.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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