A Life-Saving Exercise

The Center for the Acquisition of Clinical Skills at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion has been holding trauma courses since the beginning of the war that train the participants in life-saving skills

Since the beginning of the war, the Center for the Acquisition of Clinical Skills at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine has been holding a course for treating the wounded (trauma) for a number of officials at the Technion and outside.

According to the director of the center, Ira Baskin, it all started with the initiative of medical students in the faculty (sixth year) who wanted to improve their skills in providing care to trauma victims. According to her, “The students were looking for a place for professional practice and for this purpose they recruited paramedics, most of whom are also students at the faculty. The initiative really moved me and of course, I made the center available to them.”

The Center for the Acquisition of Clinical Skills at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine is a simulation center that enables the practice of professional-technical skills (hands-on), as well as soft skills such as communication and teamwork. The center is under construction and is not fully equipped yet. For the purpose of the practice, the course was quickly organized with partial equipment already at the faculty, as well as equipment brought by the students and equipment borrowed from the Rambam Medical Center. Rambam doctors also got involved and gave lectures to the participants before the exercises.

About 50 students came to the first course, some of them in uniform on their way to reserve service. Since then, many inquiries have also come from parties outside the Technion who want to conduct similar courses at the center in view of the situation. “Unfortunately, only in such difficult times, such as a war or an epidemic, does the awareness of the importance of simulation and life-saving practice arise. This is exactly the purpose for which our center was established, to equip the students in the faculty, as well as professionals and experts, with the tools to provide professional and safe medical care.

This is an impressive center in terms of its dimensions and potential. It can provide practice and training of clinical skills to hundreds of trainees a day. I hope that in the near future, we will be able to purchase the missing equipment and provide practical training and simulations at the highest professional level to our students as well as to the health professionals in the region and the general public, certainly in times of emergency.”