Panaji: Health minister Vishwajit Rane on Monday inaugurated an advanced medical simulation centre at Goa Medical College — a facility built to strengthen skill-based medical education, clinical preparedness, and patient safety.The facility will allow doctors, nurses, students, and healthcare workers to train in cardiac arrest and resuscitation, trauma, and emergency management, airway and respiratory emergencies, stroke and critical care, obstetric and neonatal/paediatric emergencies, ultrasound and diagnostic procedures, surgical skills, and team-based emergency response.“This will help them build not just technical skill but communication, leadership, and critical thinking, which every crisis demands,” said Rane.The centre will help strengthen clinical competence and confidence, ensure greater patient safety, ensure continuous upskilling of healthcare workforce, ensure standardised training and competency assessment, and stronger faculty development and emergency-preparedness across Goa’s healthcare system, he added.The centre is equipped with high-fidelity patient simulators, full-body clinical mannequins, VR-based simulation systems, ultrasound and diagnostic simulators, dedicated surgical, procedural and critical-care training facilities. The centre reproduces real clinical signs like breathing, pulse and blood pressure, so that doctors and nurses can practice clinical assessment and emergency response before they ever face a real patient.
