Medical Simulation Centres

Medical University of Silesia uses its centres of medical simulation in a teaching process of numerous study subjects, on every level of education starting with first years of studies ending with specialist postgraduate studies. The Centres create the most modern and the largest simulation base in Poland arranged within one University.

Education using medical simulation allows to recreate probable clinical situations under didactic conditions, giving students the opportunity to interact. Medical Simulation is a method of teaching that allows students to acquire skills, competencies and knowledge through participation in situations encountered in everyday life. The level of simulation realism can be very diverse – from medical diagnosis and educational games, by applying the virtual patient systems, manikins, simulator trainers for mastering practical skills to using advanced patient simulators allowing to create hyper realistic clinical scenarios or applying standardized patient simulators.

The centres of medical simulation of SUM are localised in 3 sites:

• Education and Medical Simulation Centre in Katowice at 8b Medyków street,

• Medical Simulation Centre in Katowice at 12d Medyków street,

• Medical Simulation Centre in Zabrze at 3 Dworcowy sq.

Students of various faculties have their classes mostly in simulation rooms ie. operating rooms, intensive care rooms, rooms of hospital emergency department, paediatric rooms, labour rooms and an area suitable for the simulation of pre-hospital emergencies with an ambulance simulator. Students of medical-dentistry faculty have the classes in rooms equipped with more than 50 dental units which are additionally fitted with LCD monitors. All rooms allow the registration of simulation scenarios in audio-video format, which are discussed in details, after comparing with vital signs of a patients with participants of the simulation in specially adapted rooms for briefing.

Apart from the mandatory classes, within studies and postgraduate studies, various facultative undertakings and original training projects are organised in the centres of simulation.