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Clinical Medical Skills and Simulation Laboratory

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences - Sana'a University

About the laboratory :

  • The Clinical Skills Laboratory is an educational laboratory to provide services to students, graduates, and medical staff. It was established as part of a plan to develop medical education at the Faculty in 2016 AD. With the recommendations of the Curriculum Committee, the skills laboratory was developed and became part of the administrative structure of the Faculty, under the supervision and follow-up of the university’s senior administrations. The laboratory was provided with equipment that enhanced the laboratory’s training capacity.

  • The laboratory provides a safe learning environment where students can practice various clinical skills before performing them on the patient.

  • Clinical skills include communication skills, history taking, clinical

Examination, and therapeutic and diagnostic interventions The Clinical Skills Laboratory enhances the educational environment and is considered an important support for regular clinical education, as it:-

  • Safe, there are no risks to the patient and the trainee.

  • Available, the largest number of students can be trained daily, which is considered an obstacle in regular clinical education.

  • Training students on skills that are difficult to obtain except by using simulation equipment, such as performing cardiac resuscitation (CPR) and other skills that require interventions that pose a risk to the patient and the trainee. Training on simulation equipment also allows for repetition of training until mastery is achieved.

Organizational Chart :

Duties of the laboratory Head :

  • Distribution of tasks

  • Follow up on work progress

  • Determine priorities and development plans

  • Follow up on the laboratory’s needs

Administrators' Tasks :

  1. Follow up on attendance and absence

  2. Create incoming and outgoing files and a special reference number for the department

  3. Follow up on claims related to the department (stationery) and others

  4. Follow up on students’ attendance and absence

  5. Ensure compliance with regulations

Quality Coordinator Duties :

  • Transferring quality recommendations from the Faculty and implementing them in the laboratory.

  • Conduct a periodic evaluation of the SWAT analysis laboratory

  • Conducting performance quality questionnaires for students and faculty members.

Tasks of the Academic Unit :

  • Scientific department coordinators are members of the laboratory’s scientific council and convey the recommendations of the scientific departments and coordinate between the laboratory and the scientific department

Duties of Technicians and IT Engineers :

  1. Providing training equipment for each skill according to the training schedule

  2. Storage and preservation of equipment

  3. Clean or sterilize equipment after each use

  4. Ensure compliance with regulations

  5. Write a report in the event of any damage to the equipment or laboratory assets.

  6. Follow up on equipment that includes digital technology and needs to be updated via the global communications network.

Duties of Scientific Department Coordinators :

  • Determine clinical skills (clinical examination or procedure performance)

  • Preparing a teaching schedule for the department in coordination with the Clinical Skills Department

  • Appointing a faculty member to supervise, train and follow up students for each skill.

  • Determine the size of the study group.

  • Training faculty members in the department on how to deal with the equipment of the skills laboratory.

Mechanism for Coordinating Work Within the laboratory :

  • Working hours are from Saturday to Thursday from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm.

  • At the beginning of the academic year, the scientific coordinator for the various courses makes a list of the skills to be trained and a timetable for each skill, and appoints a faculty member to follow up and supervise the training.

  • In coordination with the coordinators of the various scientific departments, the skills laboratory provides a training place and equipment for each skill. And the weekly schedule for each scientific department.

  • The training and reservation schedule within the laboratory is updated weekly or monthly according to the academic status of the scientific department.

  • To book training from outside the institution within the skills laboratory, contact the laboratory head and obtain permission from the Faculty dean.

  • Reservation must be made outside of busy student training hours.

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