Simulation-Based Education Approach

Simulation-based education is founded on the idea of the safety in healthcare (patient safety, medical professionals’ safety, the safety of anyone working in the medical and healthcare field, the safety of processes and systems, technology safety, etc.) and the opportunity to learn in a safe environment.

The quality of healthcare is one of the key principles that is consistently on the agenda of healthcare policy makers – both at the national level, within the European Union, and globally. It is fundamentally based on the competence and professionalism of medical and healthcare professionals, which is directly influenced by the quality of educational content and the choice of the organisational model of the education process. With the development of the healthcare safety concept, the education of both future and current professionals in the medical and healthcare fields has also evolved, making it necessary to organise the teaching and learning process in three consecutive stages: theory-based learning, simulation-based learning, and only then learning based in the real work environment.

Simulation in the field of medicine and healthcare is a technique that uses a situation or environment created to allow persons to experience a representation of a real healthcare event for the purpose of practice, learning, evaluation, testing or to gain understanding of systems or human actions (Healthcare Simulation Dictionary 2.1).

The slogan of the Medical Education Technology Centre is Simulation for Safety! Our centre is a safe environment where to make mistakes and learn. We work to ensure internal and emotional safety, patient safety, as well as safety against the unexpected. We want to be confident that we are preparing professionals. We care about safer healthcare in the country, we care that the methods used in the learning process are evidence-based.

• Medical Education Technology Centre uses simulations to create conditions that enable to learn new clinical skills as well as improve previously learned skills, and to practice those rarely used. Simulations also help prepare for unusual situations, practice communication and teamwork skills in various clinical situations, to test and validate new algorithms, evaluate guidelines, concepts, and approaches before implementing them in real clinical settings, as well as to approve equipment or technologies used in healthcare. 
• METC simulations are implemented at multiple levels - for undergraduate and residency studies, for healthcare professionals, and for the general public. In addition, METC provides a full-range of simulation-based education approach, ranging from the learning and improvement of individual skills in a simulated environment to high-complexity simulation scenarios, conducted both on-site at the METC (in-simu) and in off-site settings (in-situ). 
• Our team has experience in developing and implementing simulations in anaesthesiology, gynaecology, obstetrics, surgery, paediatrics, family medicine, traumatology, orthopaedics, nursing, and infectiology. In addition, we have developed simulations for first aid training programmes and the basic military medicine course. We also collaborate with other departments to create interdisciplinary simulations, for example, in medical law, teamwork, and interpersonal communication.
• Medical Education Technology Centre is open to all forms of collaboration, as well as to the development and implementation of new simulations. Those interested in collaboration are welcome to submit the application form.