Pune's BJ Medical College becomes first institute to set up Clinical Skills Lab

For this Clinical Skills Laboratory, the college has provided 48 mannequins where students can easily learn the medical skills. On this, speaking to the Indian Express, Dr Sanyogita Naik, a nodal officer at the lab, Professor and Head of the Anaesthesiology department at B J Medical College said, “that the laboratory is important as it provides a safe environment for medical students to practice clinical skills before he/she can use them in real clinical settings. For instance, several resuscitation procedures and techniques can be taught apart from other procedures like how to place an endotracheal tube for artificial ventilation and so on. These efforts also help build confidence levels and develop skills”.

Apart from the medical skills, the Clinical Skills Laboratory will also offer some comprehensive courses including National Emergency Life Support (NELS), Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) for both students and faculty.

On this, BJMC doctors said, “Not only will this empower medical students but also encourage the development of communication skills so that they can be applied in real-life settings”.