In collaboration with the Medical Informatics Group, CDAC Trivandrum, the MedSIM project will design and develop Computer based Medical Simulations that will allow students pursuing medical sciences to visualize, learn, practice and experience a variety of medical skills and procedures in order to provide a simulated patient experience. Visit the MediSIM platform
MedSIM is an e-learning platform that supports computer based medical simulations that replicate clinical scenarios by integrating 2D and 3D animations. It allows features such as deliberate practice and feedback for skills development, exposure to difficult to visualise procedures, protocols and case studies using virtual patient cases. The system allows the students to review the results and responses before making diagnostic clinical and management choices, an excellent tool to impart quality medical education closely aligned with SDG 4. This allows medical students to visualise, learn and practice, and experience interactive clinical cases using Virtual Patients, thus helping them to have relevant skills for medical employment through information and communications technology (ICT).
MedSIM includes case simulations in which a student interacts with a virtual patient to obtain the history, conduct a physical exam and make diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. The student may ask questions to the virtual patient, order medical examinations or therapy activities and determine the outcome. The student works his way toward a correct final diagnosis by moving through several sections followed by a patient management until the patient is completely cured or discharged. Thus, the student’s decisions have direct consequences on the virtual patient’s treatment outcome. The use of simulation is a practical and safe approach to the acquisition and maintenance of task-oriented and behavioural skills across the spectrum of medical specialties and contributes to SDG 3 to ensure good health and wellbeing. To know more about Phase 2 of the MedSIM 2.0 project visit Project Page.
Specialists from Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi provide feedback on MedSIM Pilot Study
MedSIM Project Pilot Study attended by MBBS students from Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram on 29th January 2015
Fifty-three students from Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram attending MedSIM demo-cum workshop on 29th July 2015
MedSIM demo session conducted at the Kerala State Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Thiruvananthapuram (KSIHFW)
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