Innovative training scenarios
To enhance the realism of simulation training methodologies, Iavante has scenarios that recreate real medical environments at different stages of the healthcare process.
CMAT, our centre in Granada, has separate training scenarios adapted to the environmental setting occupied by the “patient” at each stage of the care process in which the student is to be trained. Professionals can receive training in the following areas:
- Out-of-hospital area: urban and domestic setting
- Accident and emergency area
- Surgical area: operating rooms equipped with state-of-the-art technology.
- Critical care area: split level theatres with robots and virtual simulators.
- Classrooms: web-based versatility and access to knowledge
Out-of-hospital area: urban and domestic setting
We have a simulated urban area where accident and emergency professionals can train in healthcare processes and techniques for patients located outdoors.
To the same end, a small home environment has been reproduced where access difficulties and limitations of space are similar to those encountered by accident and emergency teams in their daily activity outside a hospital or health centre.
Training sessions using this kind of scenario include actor-based simulation, where actors play the role of patients and act out pathologies while the professionals in training assist them and transfer them to the best healthcare centre.
Accident and emergency area
On the ground floor of the CMAT building is the hospital area designed along the lines of the accident and emergency area in any hospital: a double circuit corridor with consultation rooms on either side where patients receive assistance according to their pathologies.
Patients (actors trained to simulate certain pathologies) access the area through one corridor, and doctors (students wishing to train in diagnostic or doctor-patient competencies) through another.
In this area, rooms are multi-purpose and can be quickly transformed from orthopaedics to a gynaecological or ophthalmologic consultation room. This is possible due to the versatility of the structure, the teaching equipment and the attrezzo used for identifying the consultation rooms.
The admission/triage rooms, critical room and plaster and treatment rooms are identified on a more permanent basis due to the frequency with which these techniques are used and the special characteristics these rooms must have.
Surgical area: operating rooms equipped with state-of-the-art technology.
CMAT has 5 multipurpose experimental operating rooms equipped with the medical instruments needed for training in laparoscipic techniques (creation of the pneumoperitoneum, insertion of trocars, etc.) and in the application of standard laparoscopic surgery to urological, gastrointestinal or gynaecological surgery.
The operating rooms are realistic environments where students have to deal with the same kind of situations they would encounter in their professional capacity.
The use of anaesthetic and surgical instruments, garments, and other stage elements, in addition to professionals playing the roles of operating assistants, enables students to become immersed in a completely life-like environment and enhances the training outcome.
The surgical area has 6 experimental laparoscopic surgery settings, enabling training in minimally invasive surgery to be given simultaneously to 12 surgeons.
Critical care area: split level theatres with robots and virtual simulators.
CMAT has 4 multi-purpose rooms in the critical care area, where specialisation depends on the pathology to be treated. There are also two control rooms from which teachers can observe and analyse students’ performance and interact with them during practical training sessions.
The methodologies most frequently used in the critical care area are robotic and virtual simulation, which train students to deal with diagnosis and surgical techniques.
As in the consultation, out-of-hospital area and operating rooms, visitors and other personnel not involved in training can observe the activity and the techniques used from the observation corridor, or watch a recording of the session captured by the complex system of cameras and microphones installed in all rooms.
Classrooms: web-based versatility and access to knowledge
Our highly versatile classrooms are equipped with state-of-the-art technology in order to facilitate the knowledge transfer process. Touch-sensitive screens have been installed in each classroom to allow teachers to project their presentations, browse the internet, connect with students in other geographical areas by video conference and keep digital copies of the notes from each session, which students can later consult, etc.
We have provided APHS personnel with computer workstations from where they can access e-training tools, complete exercises, consult tutors and access chats related to training events, the aim being to provide students who lack the necessary equipment with a means of connecting to Iavante’s on-line portfolio.