We provide specialised multidisciplinary team training courses for medical professionals, in a safe and realistic environment. Medsim avails of a state-of-the-art simulation centre and through research and innovative simulation training courses makes a fundamental contribution to patient safety. Unlike other centres, in its training courses Medsim focuses attention on the improvement of team qualities.
Medsim is an independent training and researchcenter for medical care
We provide specialised multidisciplinary team training courses for medical professionals, in a safe and realistic environment. Medsim avails of a state-of-the-art simulation centre and through research and innovative simulation training courses makes a fundamental contribution to patient safety. Unlike other centres, in its training courses Medsim focuses attention on the improvement of team qualities.
In 2005, small-scale multidisciplinary team training courses were initiated in the Máxima Medical Centre using medical simulation. At that time, a simulation centre was set up with a delivery room and a neo-natal intensive care unit. The positive results in the obstetric department and the enthusiastic reactions from other experts led to the decision to develop multidisciplinary team training courses for several areas of expertise. As part of the realisation of this decision, initiators visited (foreign) simulation training centres, various symposia and congresses were attended and a network built up, which among other things has been made permanent through the membership of SESAM (Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine), the European foundation for the promotion of simulation training in the world of medicine. MedSim is the result.
Emergency situations occur in hospitals on a daily basis. Many relief works from various disciplines are involved in the diagnosis and treatment of these emergency patients. Serious medical errors tend to occur in emergency situations through inadequate communication and poor cooperation. Research in America has indicated that 75 percent of errors with a fatal result occur in the ‘failure to rescue’ group. Crew Resource Management (CRM) is a term that originated in the field of aviation. Through regular training and testing of multidisciplinary care teams in simulated emergency situations, it is possible to provide a reflection of both clinical knowledge and skills as well as communication and cooperation.
The training is given by experienced professionals who have broad (international) experience providing multidisciplinary team trainings. At every course a physician is responsible for the clinical / medical content and development of scenarios and implementation of training. There is also a behavioral scientist who is responsible for the behavioral content and development of training scenarios and implementation of training. Furthermore, the team consists of a medical engineer who is responsible for the technical and content development. The instructors provide training to two multidisciplinary care teams simultaneously. One team observes the other during the execution of the scenario. Then a discussion and feedback session take place.
Medsim has two types of training and a test center where healthcare professionals will be tested at their skills:
1. The multidisciplinary team training
2. The individual skills
In the test center Medsim specialists and nurses can be tested on their skills. The simulation dolls allow an objective way to determine the skills of the participant.
For example, a nurse specialist can assess whether they are able to quickly diagnose, start the treatment and turn to a specialist at the right time as the situation demands. The test is provided at university colleges and can be embedded into the existing curriculum of care training courses.
Employers as hospitals may have their care professionals to test the Medsim Centre, for example follow up after a multidisciplinary team training or individual skillstraining.
Medsim has been involved in the development and founding of Training for Life.
The training for life foundation is focused on the reduction of maternal and perinatal mortality during pregnancy and delivery.
Training for life does this by ways of education. Training local medical specialists to become trainers in medical educational simulation (Train-the-trainers program). So in turn these people can coach and train their colleagues in handling common and emergency obstetric situations.
More information: http://www.trainingforlife.nl/en/
April 2020:
An instructional video was made for healthcare professionals working in obstetrics. This video explains though a simulated setting how you as a healthcare professional can act in caring for a highly pregnant woman suffering from COVID-19.
On the initiative of Máxima Medical Center, University of Technology Eindhoven and MEDical SIMulation Center MEDSIM in The Netherlands this video was made to share with all interested healthcare professionals. Special thanks to Veldkamp Produkties for their help in this production.
Watch the video here:
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