The Practical Skills Center

The Center of Practical Skills - is the newest educational department of the Kazan State Medical University, founded in 2002. The Practical Skills Center conducts pre-clinical training of students, ornganizes training for residents and interns of KSMU. The Center is equipped with simulators, mannequins and training devices especially designed for qualitative mastering of therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.

The "standardized patient" method is widely used to train senior students, where the role of patient is played by a specially trained actor. For young professionals participating in the programs of postgraduate education conducted are special thematic seminars based on modern high-technological teaching methods: "Providing emergency medical assistance in an emergent situation" and "Endoscopic methods of examination and treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract".

The combination of the introduced innovative developments into the complex educational program received was an inventor's certificate and a patent of the Russian Federation on "A method of professional training of students" in 2007.