Clinical Skills Center (CSC)

Job description of the center: 
•    Teaching clinical skills to the students of medicine and all other related fields including nursing, anesthesiology, operating room, medical emergencies, and midwifery. 
•    Offering in-service training programs to the alumni and staff working in the medical and health centers all over the country including general practitioners, nursing personnel, and emergency personnel serving in health centers, medical centers, and emergency departments 
•    Preparing self-training tools such as training packages, handouts, brochures, moulages, videos, etc. 
•    Producing training materials such as images, movies, slides, educational handouts, etc. 
•    Holding clinical and practical examinations, especially the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

The importance of acquiring clinical skills 
One of the characteristics of education in medical sciences is the necessity of acquiring clinical and practical skills in addition to learning scientific and theoretical materials. This characteristic has led to a situation where students go to hospitals together with their professors to observe patients face to face and thereby learn and practice clinical skills. In the recent decade, the education and training methods have become more scientific in the field of medicine and the values related to medical ethics (e.g. observing patients’ rights) have received much attention. This has led to a condition where traditional methods have been questioned. Currently, students of medicine all over the world practice clinical and practical skills on moulages and models. Clinical skills center in ARUMS school of medicine and paramedicine has been established to pursue this purpose more appropriately.