Central Clinical Skills Lab

The “Clinical Simulation & Skills Lab” of Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College was established in the year 2013 with the aim to:-

• To provide a safe, protected, and learner-friendly environment in which the learner can practice various medical skills before using them in real clinical settings.
• To provide actual training of clinical procedures in a safe and fault-forgiving environment prior to real-life application at the bedside or in the operating room, thus ideally creating an atmosphere that allows the repeated, anxiety and risk-free practice of targeted skills.
• Helps learn and develop clinical reasoning skills, and psychomotor surgical skills.
• To help understand complex clinical concepts and decision-making and apply appropriate procedural or surgical skills by simulating these through Models, Mannequins, Instruments, and simulators.
• Thus it aims at building competent and safe Clinicians and Surgeons.
• Developing clinical and interventional skills of Undergraduate and postgraduate Medical students, Junior Surgeons, and physicians, so that they become proficient, safe, and skilled doctors.
• To enhance these clinical skills through regular practice.
• To enhance the quality of teaching & learning of medical students to raise the standards of medical education.
• To bring clarity & objectivity in learning & teaching.

The DPU Clinical Simulation & Skills Lab is situated on the 3rd Floor of the Hi-tech hospital building. It has briefing & debriefing Rooms, Demonstration Rooms, Standardised Patient Simulation Rooms plus a Simulated ICU Emergency Room, Task Training Rooms, Laparoscopy and Endoscopy, and Arthroscopy Stations. This has High Fidelity Computerized & manual Mannequins & also has models for U G, PG, and Superspeciality Training. It has High-speed Internet and Modern Audio-Visual teaching aids. This is utilized for Lectures, Audio-Video presentations & online teaching sessions of the Skills Lab. The Clinical Simulation & Skills Lab is used by all Para clinical & Clinical departments for their teaching & learning needs & is open from Monday to Saturday.