Clinical Skills Lab @ UBI

The Clinical Skills Lab (LaC) is a teaching, research and development structure of FCS. It articulates with other Faculty´s divisions, including the Education and Assessment Methodologies in Health Sciences´ Office (GEMA-CS), UBI or other institutions and aims at the promotion of biomedical simulation in UBI.

LaC can propose, implement and collaborate on medical education research projects in FCS, in conjunction, when appropriate, with GEMA-CS. As part of its duties, LaC can be constituted as a Training Center of UBI in the area of simulation and clinical skills before national and foreign associations.

This Lab develops FCS courses´ undergraduate teaching activities, providing students with training in technical and non-technical skills with great impact on the care provided by health professionals after completion of pre-graduate training, and may also develop under and post-graduate teaching activities for other UBI courses and for health professionals.

LaC focuses on simulation, at different levels, as a teaching and learning methodology that creates the bridge between the pre-clinical education and professional practice.

This center cooperates with other FCS and UBI´s structures for the following purposes:

i) Promoting the development of strategic research areas in medical education;

ii) Promoting research projects in medical education;

iii) Promoting students contact with medical education projects;

iv) Reporting medical education research held in FCS;

v) Developing partnerships with medical education research centers;

vi) Training in medical education.