Learning By Simulation - An Educational Experience In The Simulation Center Of The School Of Medicine Of The University Of Navarra

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show how students from their freshman year acquired, through teaching by simulation, the principles of those skills needed for a better development of their subsequent professional practice. It is well-known that with the education provided in the Medical Simulation Center, learning takes place in an integrated and updated manner, with the creation of learning scenarios in which the level of similarity with reality is extraordinary. In our medical school students develop multiple activities in the simulation center from their first year of medical studies in the course —Initiation in Clinical Procedures ||. It is a very rewarding experience that offers valuable opportunities to carry out pedagogical studies. If we want students to assume the role of protagonists in their own education, we teachers need to develop a teaching style that promotes this attitude of active participation in our students in, while directing and guiding them in this journey. Based upon the experience obtained over the past three years with the students of our department, who from the first to the sixth year of their medical studies have participated in various training activities and practices developed in our Simulation Center, we have concluded that the acquisition of certain skills and training in certain specific areas of teaching competence becomes a requirement for the instructor and is the key to a teaching-learning process that is effective, of the highest quality and that clearly an correctly integrates an academic and / or scientific formation with the training of future medical staff.