Construction of the Simulation Centre of the FM MU began in the Campus
A state-of-the-art simulation centre for the training of future physicians and other medical professions will begin to grow in the Bohunice campus of Masaryk University. The construction started today with university representatives and contractors laying the symbolic foundation stone. The new building should be open for students in the 2020/2021 academic year.
The Simulation Centre of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University will be a unique place aimed at practical training of medical students. A low-energy building will simulate, besides other things, a real hospital environment, including an Emergency Department with a fully equipped mock-up ambulance car and emergency beds, a surgical department with two operating theatres, ICU, and standard hospital rooms.
Individual rooms will be equipped with training models, trainers, and simulators to mimic real situations which physicians may encounter. Moreover, there will be technology that can record the simulations so that teachers can analyse and evaluate them later with their students. This way, students will be given the opportunity to master both standard and very complicated interventions in a safe environment.
“The whole project will have a significant impact on current and future training in medical degree programmes. The Simulation Centre will be unique not only in its complexity but also by incorporating state-of-the-art elements of medical simulation in regular lessons,” said Petr Štourač, the director of the new centre.
Martin Bareš, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine, expects the Simulation Centre to transform and modernise teaching. “The new building will transform the university campus not only architectonically, but thanks to new teaching methods and changes in the concept of clinical internships, the Faculty of Medicine will become a unique centre of medical education not only within the Czech Republic but even throughout Central Europe,” said Bareš.
The centre will stand near the new building of South Moravian paramedics. Its area will be 8,000 m², and the cost of construction and equipment will reach almost one billion Czech korunas. The construction of the centre is a part of the Strategic Education Investment Project (SIMU+) at Masaryk University funded from the Operational Programme Research, Development and Education.
