SIMU team

SIMU is built on collaboration, so all academic, technical and operational needs are provided by teams from two departments of the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University. These teams are behind the innovative teaching, complement each other perfectly and form one of the broadest and best trained groups of experts in their field. Together they form SIMU.

DEPARTMENT OF SIMULATION MEDICINE

Academic workplace of the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, providing comprehensive methodological, knowledge and lecturing facilities for simulation teaching and courses. It runs a doctoral study programme and engages in grant and scientific research activities.

Department of simulation medicine is headed by:

Petr Štourač

Department Head

team of department

SIMULATION CENTRE OF SIMULATION MEDICINE

The operational and technical department of the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, takes care of the operation of all devices, instruments, simulators and the entire building, thus creating a comprehensive background for simulation education. It also provides support for teaching.

Simulation centre is headed by:

Jan Dvořáček

Departement Head

team of centre

Department of simulation medicine

Department management

Petr Štourač

Department head I Head of WG Doctoral studies and specialised education

Head of the Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology at the Brno University Hospital.
Vice-Dean for Development and Studies in General Medicine (Yrs 4 - 6)
In 2020 he was appointed Professor of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Algesiology.
He is also systematically involved in the education of students, especially in the form of dissertation supervision.
Founder of the educational and publishing portal AKUTNĚ.CZ.
SIMU is a piece of his life and the fulfillment of a vision that was able to materialize with the help of a great, multidisciplinary team.

Martina Kosinová

Department vice-head I Head of WG High-fidelity simulation

She has finished her doctoral studies in ANIMAL at the FM MU.
Habilitated at FM MU on Critical moments of anaesthesia in patients at risk in childhood and pregnancy.
She works at the Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation and at the Department of Pain Management at the University Hospital Brno.
She is an essential part of the AKUTNĚ.CZ, educational and publishing portal.
She has completed a number of Czech and foreign courses focusing on modern teaching methods in medical fields, especially on simulation medicine.
Participation in SIMU structures is an opportunity for her to turn her dreams from her studies into reality.

Secretariat

Irena Vaďurová

Secretary

Graduate of the secondary art school in Uherské Hradiště, specialising in applied photography.
She worked as an assistant on the Optimed project, in the Krtek Children's Oncology Foundation and as a secretary at the KDAR of the Brno University Hospital.
She has been at SIMU since its birth, taking care of the running of the Institute of Simulation Medicine and the Simulation Centre, from administration to providing courses.
She sees SIMU as a place where she enjoys and has the opportunity to realize her artistic passions.
When she is not taking care of the operation of SIMU, she takes care of her two young children and enjoys photography, sports and travelling.

Eliška Mičánková

Secretary

Graduated from the Faculty of Education of MU.
She has devoted most of her career to the organization and education problems of medical and non-medical health care workers.
As a member of the team of the Education Department at the University Hospital Brno, she is a link between practice in the hospital and theory at the faculty.
With the whole SIMU team, she participates in organizational and technical support in preparing courses.
He sees SIMU as both an opportunity and a challenge to help people in healthcare to be even better than they already are.

Kristýna Lhotská

Secretary

Graduate of the art and industrial school SŠPU Opava in graphic design
Student of the Faculty of Arts MU in the field of pedagogy
She gained her experience in various companies, where she worked in administration, customer service and gastronomy.
In her free time, she enjoys graphic and nail design, she likes to visit openings and exhibitions. She relaxes in nature, with friends and family, or by practicing yoga. She also volunteers at events.
Working at SIMU is a new opportunity and challenge for her.

Karla Švábenská

Secretary

Graduate of PEF MENDELU in the programme Economic Policy and Administration with specialization in Management of Healthcare Facilities
5 years of experience in quality management and certification in the healthcare sector
Perceives SIMU as a unique place where students can prepare for future practice
Working at SIMU is an opportunity for her to stay in an academic environment while working in the healthcare field
In her free time, she enjoys taking various trips to the outdoors with her family or creating with or without her children

Simona Kašparová

Secretary

Graduate of the Secondary Medical School, pharmaceutical laboratory technician.
Most of her work experience has been devoted to the care of clinical workplaces as a secretary.
She links the activities of the Department of Simulation Medicine and the Simulation Centre with the Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation at the Brno University Hospital, as well as with the AKUTNĚ.cz Foundation.
Her main hobbies include sports, specifically skiing, scooter and bicycle.

Working groups

Leaders of working groups

Daniel Schwarz

TBL/PBL and virtual patients

Biomedical engineer and CIO at the Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Ltd. – a spin-off company of Masaryk University.
He is teaching a variety of mathematical biology courses at the university and supervising PhD students in Neurosciences.
He is involved in projects focusing on technology and pedagogy in medical and healthcare education.
He was at the origin of the idea of the MEFANET network of medical faculties, since 2014 he has been chairing the coordinating board).
He is strongly attached to the idea of using virtual patients in medical education and in the lifelong learning of physicians. That is why he also has a great respect for the Simulation Centre.

Hana Harazim

Virtual patients and AKUTNE.CZ

Graduate of doctoral studies in Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Algesiology at the FM MU.
In her dissertation she focused on anaesthesia and analgesia in obstetrics.
She works at the Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation at the University Hospital Brno.
She leads a team of doctors and students who create new interactive teaching aids, virtual patients, for the AKUTNĚ.CZ educational and publishing portal.
She sees educating medical students with modern teaching methods as a way to truly save many lives.

Jana Djakow

Adult teaching and learning/ERC

Graduate of doctoral studies in Human Physiology and Pathophysiology at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, where she also certified in paediatric medicine.
She focuses mainly on children intensive care.
She serves on the committees of the Czech Resuscitation Council and the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) for resuscitation of children and is co-author of the European Recommended Practice for Resuscitation 2021.
She is a leader of ERC courses in basic and advanced resuscitation and instructor courses focused on adult education, and has experience from many courses conducted in the Czech Republic and abroad.
For her, SIMU represents the next step in pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the education of students, healthcare professionals and lecturers.

Martin Komenda

SIMUportfolio a OSCE

Graduate of the Faculty of Informatics MU.
Head of the webstudio team at the Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine.
He has a long-standing interest in modern information technologies and their use in medical education.
Responsible for the development and implementation of the SIMUportfolio integration platform along with the introduction of new methods applicable to the assessment of student knowledge (OSCE: Objective Structured Clinical Examination).
The opportunity to be at the very beginning of the Simulation Centre means a new challenge for him, joining a large team across disciplines and the possibility of his own self-realization.

Martin Janků

Propedeutics

A graduate of medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, he has been working as an anaesthesiologist at the Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia and Resuscitation at the Brno University Hospital since 2020.
During his studies he helped to broaden the horizons and education of medics from the Czech Republic and abroad within the projects of the international organization IFMSA and beyond.
He believes that a teacher who influences thousands of medical students with his work can impact several generations of patients.
Knowing that he is helping to create an even better generation of young doctors gives him the purpose and strength to do what he and the Propedeutics team are working on.

Martina Žižlavská

Propedeutics

Physician of the Internal Medicine Department of the Hospital of Merciful Brothers
Since 2017 she has been innovating the teaching of Propedeutics
Leads the team providing Propedeutics teaching in SIMU, provides training for the teaching skills of the team of student lecturers in team-based learning facilitation, debriefing, feedback and teaching practical skills
Activities at SIMU mean for her the opportunity to prepare future doctors for clinical practice, motivate and help whole generations of medics to develop professionally and personally

Tereza Prokopová

First aid

Physician at the Department of Anaesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Brno.
She teaches First Aid, Intensive Care Medicine and Propedeutics at the Faculty of Medicine MU.
She is one of the founders of the First Aid Simulation Course and subsequently of the working group leading the simulation teaching of the First Aid Exercise.
For her, working at SIMU means the opportunity to improve her simulation teaching.

Jan Dvořáček

NLZP and operation

Master's degree in Critical Care Nursing.
Department head of the Simulation Centre.
10 years of experience in emergency and intensive care medicine.
He also worked as a paramedic by profession.
He sees the simulation centre as a great opportunity not only for personal development but above all to improve patient safety.

Tereza Vafková

Debriefing

Graduate of General Medicine at the Medical Faculty of MU.
She works at the Department of Comprehensive Oncological Care at the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MMCI) in Brno.
She has completed a number of international courses focusing on medical education and adult learning (Essential Skills in Medical Education), debriefing and clinical debriefing (The Master Debriefer Course, The Clinical Debriefer Course).
Working at SIMU is an opportunity for her to help shape medical education and contribute to the development of feedback culture in medicine.

Coordinators

Daniel Barvík

First Aid Simulation Course Coordinator

Physician at the Department of Anaesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine of the Brno University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Brno.
Member of the Student as Teacher project team, where he participates in the preparation and coordination of student lecturers for teaching first aid.
Head of the team of lecturers of the First Aid Simulation Course at LF MU.
Graduate of the ALS course and Full Instructor of the European Resuscitation Council EPALS course.
In the team of interactive teaching technicians he was previously involved in high fidelity simulations, now he is mainly involved in the provision of teaching and sub-projects.
In his spare time he enjoys running, hiking and climbing on an artificial wall.

Tamara Skříšovská

SIMUniversity coordinator

PhD student in the Simulation in Medicine program, in her work she focuses on the topic of medical errors
She works at the Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation at the University Hospital Brno
Member of the management of the educational portal AKUTNĚ.CZ, where she collaborates on the section Monitoring of articles
Methodologist of collaborative learning methods
Co-president of SESAM (Society for Simulation in Europe)

Václav Vafek

pre-learning coordinator

graduate of General Medicine at the MU Faculty of Medicine
anaesthesiologist at the Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation, Brno University Hospital
member of the working group of the course First Aid Exercise
participates in postgraduate courses on the care of critically ill paediatric patients
Believes that SIMU is a place where students leave with the feeling that effective teamwork and communication are essential for quality

Simulation centre

Centre management

Jan Dvořáček

Department Head

Master's degree in Critical Care Nursing.
Profession also as an intensive care nurse and paramedic.
In addition to SIMU, she also works at the Emergency Department of KARIM FN Brno and has also worked in pre-hospital care and in the inpatient ARO department.
Lecturer of ALS, EPALS and EPILS courses.
Graduate of courses focused on modern teaching not only with simulations: GIC (ERC), Train the Trainers (B.Braun) and lecturer courses organized at SIMU.
He leads the team responsible for the operation of the Simulation Centre, from preparing teaching aids to operating and maintaining state-of-the-art simulators.
He finds SIMU a place full of great and inspiring and motivated people.

Petra Kratochvílová

Vice Head for Teaching

A nurse specialising in intensive care, with a university degree and many years of experience in two of the largest resuscitation clinics in Brno.
She has experience teaching nurses at the Faculty of Medicine and postgraduate education.
She considers working in the Simulation Centre as an opportunity for personal development and a crucial step in the education of students and healthcare professionals.

Jiří Travěnec

Vice Head for Technology

Graduate of Computer Graphics and Multimedia at the FIT, Brno University of Technology.
15 years of experience in IT, since 2017 part of the Simulation Centre team.
At SIMU, together with a team of technicians, he takes care of simulation, AV and IT equipment and operations.
His fuel is the opportunity to participate in the operation of the largest simulation center and innovations in the modern field of simulation medicine, which he can pursue thanks to the excellent environment and PhD program.

Libor Dundáček

Building Operation Manager

Construction technician by profession.
For 16 years he worked as a technical manager of the Dr. Max pharmacy chain.
He takes care of the building and facilities of the Simulation Centre.
What motivated him to work at SIMU was the need for change and the desire to try something new.

Secretariat

Irena Vaďurová

Secretary

Graduate of the secondary art school in Uherské Hradiště, specialising in applied photography.
She worked as an assistant on the Optimed project, in the Krtek Children's Oncology Foundation and as a secretary at the KDAR of the Brno University Hospital.
She has been at SIMU since its birth, taking care of the running of the Institute of Simulation Medicine and the Simulation Centre, from administration to providing courses.
She sees SIMU as a place where she enjoys and has the opportunity to realize her artistic passions.
When she is not taking care of the operation of SIMU, she takes care of her two young children and enjoys photography, sports and travelling.

Eliška Mičánková

Secretary

Graduated from the Faculty of Education of MU.
She has devoted most of her career to the organization and education problems of medical and non-medical health care workers.
As a member of the team of the Education Department at the University Hospital Brno, she is a link between practice in the hospital and theory at the faculty.
With the whole SIMU team, she participates in organizational and technical support in preparing courses.
He sees SIMU as both an opportunity and a challenge to help people in healthcare to be even better than they already are.

Kristýna Lhotská

Secretary

Graduate of the art and industrial school SŠPU Opava in graphic design
Student of the Faculty of Arts MU in the field of pedagogy
She gained her experience in various companies, where she worked in administration, customer service and gastronomy.
In her free time, she enjoys graphic and nail design, she likes to visit openings and exhibitions. She relaxes in nature, with friends and family, or by practicing yoga. She also volunteers at events.
Working at SIMU is a new opportunity and challenge for her.

Karla Švábenská

Secretary

Graduate of PEF MENDELU in the programme Economic Policy and Administration with specialization in Management of Healthcare Facilities
5 years of experience in quality management and certification in the healthcare sector
Perceives SIMU as a unique place where students can prepare for future practice
Working at SIMU is an opportunity for her to stay in an academic environment while working in the healthcare field
In her free time, she enjoys taking various trips to the outdoors with her family or creating with or without her children

Simona Kašparová

Secretary

Graduate of the Secondary Medical School, pharmaceutical laboratory technician.
Most of her work experience has been devoted to the care of clinical workplaces as a secretary.
She links the activities of the Department of Simulation Medicine and the Simulation Centre with the Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation at the Brno University Hospital, as well as with the AKUTNĚ.cz Foundation.
Her main hobbies include sports, specifically skiing, scooter and bicycle.