The directors of the Higher School of Medicinewhich depends on the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP)define by this date the tender for a new center that will allow students to carry out highly complex internships in key areas such as intensive care, neonatology and general hospitalization.
The public institution run by Adrian Alasino aspires to have the million-dollar work awarded before the end of the year, with the idea of being able to inaugurate it in mid-2023. “The offer is being finalized but it is likely to come out during August, so before the end of the year everything might be adjudicated”, confirmed the doctor.
At the beginning of 2020, the school had already enabled laboratories with “low and medium complexity” simulators, but the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic inexorably postponed the deadlines to build a Simulation Center that expands the range of practices for the more than 5 thousand students who attend the place.
In statements to 0223, Alasino recognized that the construction of the new space opens an “important expectation” for his school due to the “highly complex technological” equipment that will be made available to students. “The simulators are going to allow practices in intensive care sectors, delivery rooms, neonatology and general hospitalization”, he detailed.
Among other functionalities, the director of Medicine said that each of the exercises will be recorded so that later the students “can work on the errors by watching the same recording of what they did”. “There will be televisions, a Gesell camera, and it will be possible to listen and broadcast live,” added the man who was recently elected as head of the Argentine Forum of Public Medicine Faculties and Schools (Fafemp).
The university official said that the Simulation Center will take shape in a building of approximately 500 square meters, which will be located in the block next to the Juan H. Jara National Institute of Epidemiology (INE) in the La Perla neighborhood, where one of the venues for the course.
“There is a quarter of a block that belongs to Malbrán (NdR: the National Administration of Laboratories and Health Institutes) and it has been empty for several years because some laundries used to work. remains regarding Ituzaingó and September 20 and there is already an agreement so that in that sector we can build this Center”, revealed Alasino.
If there are no eventualities in the administrative procedures of the tender, the person in charge of the Superior School of Medicine trusted that the work might be inaugurated in the middle of next year. “It is a six-month project, so if we manage to get it awarded before the end of the year, then we will surely have it by the middle of 2023,” he confirmed.
