Introduction

The Emergency Medical Services Department and Critical Care of Inaya Medical College is dedicated in providing its students with the knowledge, skills, and training necessary for becoming proficient emergency medical services personnel ready to serve their community and their country.

Emergency medical services department laboratories arose out of a desire and firm conviction that our students should receive the most advanced tools to complement their training, the laboratories have been the product of a great deal of hard work and dedication, as such, we consider these laboratories a well-placed investment into our student’s future.

It has been developed and designed to recreate a virtual environment complete with high fidelity simulators and state of the art equipment intended to provide a safe, risk free environment where students can practice paramedics skills and patient care under full supervision of highly qualified faculty members without the risk of harming an actual patient.

Objectives:

The Emergency Medical Services and Critical Care Department aims to provide that EMS students with the latest technology in laboratory and simulation training to create an artificial replication of the real-world situation in which students can gain knowledge and psychomotor skills and be able to critically think through complex scenarios in a safe and non-threatening environment.

This approach to practical learning is a ‘learner centric’ educational method which integrates the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains in a non-threatening and safe environment thus ensuring accuracy and competency of skills before the student enters or is admitted to the clinical environment

EMS program Laboratory Overview

The Emergency Medical Services and Critical Care Department laboratory area consist of four large laboratories.

Patient assessment and basic skill lab.

Advanced airway and medication administration lab.

Trauma and extrication lab.

Advanced cardiac support lab.

The laboratories are equipped with a high-fidelity human patient simulator, these simulators reproduce body physiological models and are programmed with a wide array of clinical scenarios allowing the application of simulated clinical experiences. Scenarios can range anywhere from common medical conditions to more critical conditions like cardiac arrest, these simulated scenarios give paramedic students the opportunity to learn correct interventions in a risk-free environment where errors can be allowed to occur and played out, providing students with information and feedback about their individual performance and work as a team.

In addition to high-fidelity human patient simulator, EMS Laboratories are equipped with full spectrum of static mannequins and task trainers, and virtual skill simulators where students can practice various paramedic skills and procedures.

Faculty and instructors plan set up and teach the laboratories to mirror real-life prehospital and hospital care situations, they thoroughly utilize equipment so that students can practice important procedures on lifelike body parts and life-sized mannequins.