Clinical Skills Lab Training for Pharmacy Students

Clinical Skills Lab Training for Pharmacy Students Training sessions organized by the university’s clinical skills lab continue for second year PharmD students. The sessions were held to train second-year students at the Faculty of Pharmacy on some elementary clinical skills. In the training sessions, students were trained on intravenous cannulation, which is a technique in which a cannula is placed inside a vein to provide intravenous access to allow blood samples to be drawn from the patient, or for the administration of fluids, drugs, intravenous nutrition, chemotherapy and blood products. Students were also trained on endotracheal intubation, which is the insertion of a plastic tube into the trachea, to keep the airways open or to act as a conduit to give the patient certain drugs through this tube. Endotracheal intubation is performed for critically injured patients or those with a critical health condition or patients undergoing general anesthesia, in order to facilitate the process of ventilation of the lungs, through mechanical ventilation to prevent suffocation or obstruction of the airways. This training has been developed to raise the trainees' efficiency were students are trained on educational dolls before going to hospital clinical practice. The arrangement and organization of these training sessions considered all the precautionary measures to combat the Corona pandemic, such as reducing the number of students for each session, and their commitment to wearing a mask in order to ensure the safety of students and workers. The second-year cohort at the Faculty of Pharmacy includes 46 students, who are divided into 4 groups, and each group is distributed into smaller groups within the laboratory, in order to maintain the implementation of precautionary measures to combat the Corona pandemic (Covid-19). The Clinical Skills Laboratory aims to train students of various medical faculties on basic skills, in all academic stages prior to the clinical stage, by using advanced dolls as fake patients and preparing scenarios for actual cases that simulate the real situation in hospitals.