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The new five-storey SIMU building in the Bohunice campus of Masaryk University is running. It will be the students of the first years of general medicine and dentistry who will be studying there.

Lenka Divišová, together with other colleagues, is responsible for the preparation of patient simulators for teaching students of the Medical Faculty of MU.

The European Resuscitation Council gave a certified EPALS course which took place on 18th – 20th September 2020 in Hotel Tereziansky dvur in Hradec Kralove. The course was attended by doctors and nurses from Brno University Hospital and Medical Faculty of Masaryk University, as well as lecturers from the Simulation Center.

These days, the construction of the Simulation Center of the Medical Faculty of MU is culminating. Jitka Blažková, the project director, has been participating in the construction of this unique building.

A Summer Evening School of TBL Lessons was organized for the students of the Medical Faculty of Masaryk University on 8th -10th September 2020. It already took place in the new building of the Simulation Center of the Medical Faculty of Masaryk University, which at that time was just put to trial use. The program of three three-hour evening lessons was prepared by a team dedicated to the systematic preparation of teaching for a part of a multisemester subject Theoretical Bases of Clinical Medicine. The event was attended by 30 students from the 4th, 5th and 6th year of General Medicine.

The AMEE annual conference, a widely attended international conference focused on medical education, was held in September 2020.

Colleagues from the team of First Aid lecturers, Tereza Prokopová and Tereza Vafková, attended an online course called ESME Online (Essential Skills in Medical Education).

The teaching at SIMU will start in the first week of October with nothing else but first aid. This course has been innovated from the ground up to respond to modern requirements to teaching and to use the huge potential of the Simulation Center of the Medical Faculty of Masaryk University.