Every Friday, the trauma and acute care surgery faculty arrange for a live, high-fidelity trauma simulation for surgical residents to refine their trauma resuscitation skills. The simulation features live patient-actors, professional moulage, and is carried out in one of our trauma bays. This unique simulation involves the entire trauma resuscitation team and allows for general surgery residents to practice management of complex clinical scenarios in a highly realistic environment. Structured formative feedback is provided by the trauma faculty following the simulations.
The skills lab is available 24/7 for residents and students to practice operative techniques in a safe laboratory setting before employing them in the operating room. It features:
This is a clinical examination where candidates rotate through exam “stations” or simulated midwifery scenarios using actors and models and respond to the situation as they would in clinical practice.
Our program conducts an OSCE twice each academic year in the Mercy School of Nursing Skills Lab located on the 4th Floor in the main hospital. The OSCE runs on a two-year cycle so that each resident has the opportunity to participate in the same scenarios twice during residency. There are three cases for each OSCE.
Each case is 15 minutes in length and includes time to read the presenting scenario, conduct scenario, complete a self-assessment, and receive verbal feedback from the SP (standardized patient).
