A new, state-of-the-art training application has begun for the Midwifery Department of Üsküdar University Faculty of Health Sciences. Within the scope of the Scientific Research Project (BAP), the “Midwifery Laboratory Simulation Model” application has been implemented to ensure that Midwifery students complete their education to high standards. With this simulation, it is aimed for students to receive training in the most realistic conditions using a model with human senses, thereby increasing their professional experience. Students will be able to measure pulse, monitor heart sounds, and control respiratory rates, thus receiving training as realistically as if they were caring for a normal patient.
Prof. Dr. Güler Cimete: “Students will be able to experience all situations that may occur during pregnancy and childbirth in the laboratory”
Prof. Dr. Güler Cimete, Head of the Midwifery Department at the Faculty of Health Sciences, made evaluations about the Midwifery Laboratory simulation model, stating that thanks to the simulator, students will be able to experience all normal and risky situations that may occur during pregnancy and childbirth in a laboratory environment. Cimete said; “The Midwifery Department laboratory of Üsküdar University Faculty of Health Sciences has been further enriched with the newly acquired ‘Advanced Mother-Newborn Birth Simulator’. Midwifery Department students will have the opportunity to experience all normal and risky situations that may occur during pregnancy and childbirth in a laboratory environment with the newly added ‘Advanced Mother-Newborn Birth Simulator’ with advanced technological features, thereby acquiring intervention skills and basic midwifery care skills.”
“On a model with human-like characteristics, fetal examination can be performed in addition to the pregnant woman's examination”
Cimete provided information regarding advanced technological planning: “The mother-newborn birth simulator will allow students to observe and perform necessary midwifery interventions on a human-like model in a laboratory environment, through scenarios created (scenarios written and uploaded to the system by Faculty Members) that represent all normal and abnormal situations encountered in women during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum processes in real life. The birth simulator, with its advanced technological features, enables students to perform fetal position examinations (Leopold’s maneuvers) in addition to the pregnant woman's vital signs on a human-like model, thereby determining the position and size of single or twin babies in the womb. The simulation model also provides the opportunity to assess the suitability of the pelvic structure for birth through vaginal examination, as well as practicing normal vaginal delivery, breech birth, shoulder dystocia, placental delivery, episiotomy incision and repair, postpartum uterine massage, and intervention for cord problems.
With the new simulation model, students will be able to monitor the fetus’s progression and rotations in the birth canal, as well as fetal distress situations and changes in the mother's vital functions, and develop the skill to intervene in all abnormal situations, including maternal resuscitation. The baby simulation model will enable students to learn all newborn care practices, including neonatal resuscitation, in a laboratory environment.” she stated.
Research Assistant Ezgi Keskin: “Pulse, heart sound, and respiratory rate can be obtained from the model…”
Research Assistant Ezgi Keskin from the Midwifery Department shared detailed information about the midwifery laboratory simulation model, emphasizing that the model creates a hospital environment for students in a laboratory setting. Keskin said; “This model was procured from America for the midwifery department within the scope of BAP (Scientific Research Project). Thanks to this model, we are essentially creating a complete hospital environment for students in the laboratory. All the senses of the model are those of a normal human; we can take a pulse, hear heart sounds, and count respiratory rates, so our students benefit from the most realistic experience as if they were caring for a normal patient.”
“Our aim is to provide our students with conditions closest to a hospital environment”
Research Assistant Ezgi Keskin stated that their goal is to provide students with conditions closest to a hospital environment; “Thus, our aim is for them to learn how to interact with patients and approach them appropriately when they go to the clinic. The instructors direct the model from a computer behind the room. For example, if the model needs to experience pain at that moment, pain is simulated, and the student learns how to approach a woman experiencing labor pain. The simulation room is useful for this purpose. The instructor can manage the model from there, program it as desired, and present the desired type of scenario. In this way, the student learns to intervene. This also ensures that the student won't get nervous seeing the instructor, and the instructor can observe them from behind a window.” she said.
