The Argentine Society of Diabetes inaugurated its Clinical Simulation Center, which was designed and fine-tuned with the coordination of the Simulation team of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste.
Simulation in the area of health consists of placing a student in a context that imitates some aspect of reality and establishing, in that environment, situations or problems similar to those that he or she will have to face with healthy or sick individuals, in a way that independently, during the different clinical practices of their specialty”.
With the slogan “Simulation for Action”, the SAD opens a new educational portal that includes simulation technology, creating a paradigm shift in the education of the health team, with unlimited potential.
Professor Alejandro Gorodner, responsible for the Clinical Simulation Cabinet of the Unne Faculty of Medicine, pointed out that the technical and teaching team that he leads in the Faculty of Medicine carried out the coordination together with the SAD Board of Directors with its President Dr. . Silvia Lapertosa so that this project might materialize.
He also expresses his gratitude to the dean prof. Germán Pagno and the rector of the University prof. Gerardo Larroza, for his commitment to Higher Education, in this case represented by Clinical Simulation, an innovative high-impact strategy that will generate an outstanding academic offer in education.
The Simulation Center will be available for all educational and academic activities of society, and its objective is to stimulate learning through new innovative tools, which will allow the students who are members of the health team to acquire skills, abilities and knowledge, prior to actual contact with the patient, thus promoting the practice and performance of procedures, reducing the possibility of errors and promoting teamwork and the safety of our patients.
