SIMULATIVE COURSES FOR INTERNS

The simulative courses on general anesthesia using super modern mannequin SimMan are held at department of surgery, anesthesiology and intensive care at postgraduate education of O.O. Bohomolets National medical university.

In order to master the art of anesthesia an intern shall not only learn much information in different spheres of medicine: anatomy, physiology, therapy, surgery, pharmacology, physics and many others. He/she shall still possess the numerous practical skills: vein puncture, preparation of anesthesia apparatus, measurement and interpretation of all physiological indices, provision with patency of airways (manually, by airways, laryngeal mask or intubation of trachea), installation of gastric tube and urinary catheter and others.

For a patient to be safe the conditions for qualitative performance of operative interference were established for surgeons, an intern shall master the competency that includes all that knowledge and abilities and to apply them according to the clinical situation at a concrete patient.

It is possible to check the readiness of an intern for independent work only after seeing how he/she makes the anesthesia. The use of the simulative mannequin instead of real patient allows modeling any clinical situation without any threat to patients. The simulative study is the safe way for qualitative practice-oriented postgraduate education, which is the top-priority direction in work of Institute for postgraduate education at O.O. Bohomolets NMU.