April 27, 2014

Partnership for Innovative Medical Eduction - Kenya SKILLS LAB

The video shows the challenges medical students face when training with a human patient and the advantages of using Mannequins for medical training. Since the medical field is constantly changing the University of Nairobi College of health Sciences with funding from National Institutes of Health established a established a Multidisciplinary Skills Laboratory to improve medical education by allowing students the opportunity to have handson clinical experiences by use of expert patients and a simulated environment to optimize skills training experience as shown in the video. Our partners are University of Washington and the University of Maryland Baltimore.

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