Since March 2020, students of the Physician Assistant programme have been able to learn practical medical skills in a specially established training centre. The laboratory of the Faculty of Health Management (GM) has thus been given a new addition: the DocLab - training centre with teaching, practice and seminar rooms. Here students can train manual and communicative skills in a targeted manner. The equipment was financed by the Free State of Bavaria with funds for the initial equipment of the new study programme. With the laboratory, the Faculty of Health Management at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences is laying the foundation for an innovative and future-oriented training concept.
The aim is to provide students with the necessary manual as well as communicative skills prior to practical application. In practice, the ward and senior physicians often do not have the time to instruct the new generation of doctors in a targeted manner. Moreover, "learning on the patient" does not always correspond to patient safety. Students of the Physician Assistant course at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences train basic medical skills in the DocLab, from communicating serious diagnoses to the correct placement of a venous catheter, reanimation and suturing. In addition to specially trained tutors who mime patients, various simulators and models are used. In a protected learning environment, students can thus deal with various manual and communicative techniques outside of the stressful daily routine in the clinic. The vast majority of the training courses offered are compulsory for students to complete as part of their regular training.
Contact us: Prof. Dr Judith Mantz, Head of GM-DocLab (Health Management Laboratory)
