Trainings for teachers

The aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has been going on for almost 3 years. The terror of the civilian population continues. Children are suffering. When houses are damaged, people receive significant injuries. In addition, the need to provide emergency first aid also arises in ordinary civilian life. Including in children’s groups. And time in all the above cases often plays a decisive role in saving lives. This makes teaching emergency first aid skills to all those who may be the first to be at the scene of an incident extremely important for our society.

Therefore, Odesa National Medical University extends its trainings to teachers of secondary education institutions, grammar schools and lyceums. Within the framework of the SimS grant project (Simulation Medicine and Scenario-Based Training in Emergency Care), under the competition: ERASMUS-EDU-2022-CBHE-STRAND-2, type ERASMUS Lump Sum, specialists from leading medical universities of Ukraine developed the training “Emergency First Aid. Psychological Aspects”. The training includes not only mastering basic life support skills and emergency first aid skills using simulation equipment, but also one of the “virtual patient” technologies, which consists of going through specially created scenarios on the OpenLabirinth platform, access to which is provided for Ukrainians by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece).

Within the framework of this SimS project, from January 13 to 16, specialists from the Department of Simulation Medical Technologies of ONMedU conducted the first training for teachers, 32 teachers from the rehabilitation and educational institution “Zoresvit”. The training assessed the teachers’ knowledge and skills in emergency care before and after the training, as well as their confidence in their own ability to provide emergency care. All teachers noted a significant increase in their self-confidence and demonstrated a significant improvement in their emergency care skills.

In addition to the skills of providing assistance, during the training, teachers were taught psychological self-defense techniques (mindfulness) that must be applied before providing assistance, and discussed the psychological aspects of communicating with the victim and children who may witness the event.

The format of the training and the attitude of our specialists were so liked by the trainees that they expressed their written gratitude to our rector, Valerii Mykolayovych.

We hope that this event was a successful start to a new initiative to train all teachers in our city in emergency first aid skills. We look forward to seeing all teachers at our university!