Team Goemkarponn
PANAJI: Health Minister Vishwajit Rane inaugurated the Advanced Medical Simulation Centre at Goa Medical College (GMC), a facility aimed at strengthening skill-based medical education, clinical preparedness and patient safety in Goa.
The centre is equipped with high-fidelity patient simulators, full-body clinical mannequins, virtual reality-based simulation systems, ultrasound and diagnostic simulators, along with dedicated facilities for surgical, procedural and critical-care training.
The advanced simulation systems can reproduce clinical signs such as breathing, pulse and blood pressure, enabling doctors, nurses, students and other healthcare workers to practise clinical assessment and emergency response in a controlled environment before treating real patients.
Training will cover cardiac arrest and resuscitation, trauma and emergency management, airway and respiratory emergencies, stroke and critical care, obstetric and neonatal and paediatric emergencies, ultrasound and diagnostic procedures, surgical skills and team-based emergency response.
Rane said the facility will help build stronger clinical competence and confidence among healthcare professionals while improving patient safety, standardising training and competency assessment, and supporting continuous upskilling of Goa’s healthcare workforce.
The centre will also contribute to faculty development and strengthen emergency preparedness across the state’s healthcare system.
The initiative is aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of skilled, competency-based medical education and the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s efforts to strengthen clinical training standards.
Rane described the initiative as part of the Goa Model of Healthcare, focused on moving from investment and vision to measurable outcomes in healthcare delivery.
