METC Organises Telesimulation Demonstrations for American Peers

Madara Blumberga, the Simulation-Based Education Development Manager in Nursing at the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Education Technology Centre (METC), carried out telesimulation demonstrations for their peers from the Jacobi Medical Centre’s (NY, USA) together with her colleagues Ligija Vucāne, Marta Gaidele and Ieva Zariņa.

Two paediatrics scenarios were played out during which participants provided care for a surgical patient. The virtual scenarios took place in person at the METC’s clinical simulation facilities and were led remotely by Dr. Isabel Gross, a paediatric emergency physician and lecturer at the Yale School of Medicine. In order to learn how to organise a telesimulation technically and to control the scenario remotely, the demonstration was observed and analysed virtually by specialists from the Jacobi Medical Centre – certified doctors, nurses, residents, and functional specialists.

‘The aim of demonstration was to showcase the method's possibilities and technical solutions. Telesimulation allows instructors to train people remotely, whether from another university, city, or even country’, explains Blumberga.

We are happy to share the virtual simulation experience that we have developed during the pandemic and which will open up opportunities for international cooperation in the future.

Ieva Šlēziņa, MITC direktore