2024 Grand Alumni Homecoming Launch
Many schools in the Philippines have this tradition that the silver jubilarian alumni class (i.e., the alumni who graduated 25 years ago) organizes and hosts the alumni homecoming for that year. Since we graduated from medical school in 1999, that would be us and here we are hosting a year’s worth of events for the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. I wrote a short piece about it for the University of the Philippines Medical Alumni Society website, which is now doing double duty so that I don’t have to write too much on this blog post 🙂
Here are a few shots from the Clinical Simulation Laboratory at the Henry Sy Sr. Medical Sciences Building. Our class, along with other classes and individual donors, contributed funds towards purchasing advanced technology aimed at facilitating the clinical education.
The simulator mannequins can be pre-programmed to talk (albeit in English), or someone doing role-playing can “talk” for them via microphones. They also have conduits for bodily fluids (blood or urine, for example). Among the mannequins are a child (Luna), an adult (Apollo) and two pregnant mannequins (Lucina) that have mannequin babies. Instructors and programmers (the “behind the scenes” people) can sit in a control room and view the trainees working with the mannequins through a one-way glass divider. Another room simulated an operating room scenario, where anesthesiology and surgery trainees could practice without harming any patients. Aside from the “whole body” simulators, there were also specific body parts on which the trainees can practice procedures like blood draws and pelvic examinations.
