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Medical Simulation & Clinical Skills Center

About the Center

The CMHS Simulation Center covers approximately 1700 square meters within the College of Medicine and Health Science (CMHS). The center is fully equipped with hospital-grade equipment and provides an authentic environment for healthcare professionals to practice in. This accredited facility was built with the sole purpose to improve patient safety and provide better patient outcomes for the community.

#28

Number of Rooms

#109

Simulated Participants

#188

Simulated Sessions/Year

#8

Community Involvement

#56

OSCE (Face to Face, on site & Virtual)

VISION MISSION GOALS

To become a regional centre of excellence in innovative skills training and inter-professional medical simulation transforming the quality of healthcare delivery in the UAE.

The Simulation and Clinical Skills Training Centre aims to improve patients’ safety and outcomes through strategic integration of simulation based technologies, effective leadership, inter-professional teamwork, innovative clinical skills training and research that maximize skills transfer and promote lifelong learning.

Graduate skillful, resilient & socially accountable health professionals.
Use effective simulation-based technologies, innovative methods and translational research to deliver teachings and trainings in the center.
Implement effective leadership strategies to maintain best practice standards and encourage inter-professional teamwork.
Build sustainable academic and professional partnerships that link simulation to real practice.

Simulated Patients Program

Our Simulated Patient (SP) program is an integral part of the center and supports clinical skills teaching at various levels within our curriculum. The program involves the utilization of volunteers to role-play medical cases thus enabling students to learn the skills of medical communication, history taking and physical examination in a real-world experience.

EVENTS

Art in Medical Simulation Contest

29 Nov 2020

The Art in Medical Simulation Contest seeks to express the role of medical simulation in medical education through an art workart (painting or photography).

Clinical Students COVID 19 Infection

20 Aug 2020

This workshop was conducted in the Fall of 2020 prior to returning CSC1 and CSC2 students to face to face education. clinicalThe workshop aimed at raising awareness of COVID-19 infection..

COVID-19 Volunteers Training Workshop

3 June 2020

CMHS has joined forces with the Emirates Foundation by providing volunteers basic clinical skills that were deemed essential covid19before deploying them to COVID-19 healthcare facilities...

Student & Faculty Testimonials

Elhadi H. Aburawi, Professor, Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist.

"It is a great privilege to use and work in the Clinical Skill lab, CMHS, UAEU. It is providing our students the golden time to learn the necessary skills in all physiological and pathological conditions. I am connecting my students and teaching them the cardiac auscultation using the cardiopulmonary patient simulator (Harvey®)."

Hamad Alhammadi, Medical Student

"The medical simulation centers provide a good study environment to practice the essential clinical skills preparing for the clinical years, which mainly include: history taking, physical examination and certain procedures.”

Hajar Ahmed, Medical Student

"As a medical student and a proud volunteer in different national initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, I can recall how amazed and excited I felt when the Medical Simulation Center has initiated Basic Clinical Skills Workshops for “Defeating COVID-19 Together.”