28 Feb Simulation takes main stage in the innovation of UIC Barcelona classrooms
UIC Barcelona believes teaching innovation is an essential element in learning. In this light, the University has developed the Teaching Innovation Classroom, which promotes innovative projects in class, encourages concern for research in teaching innovation and promotes the continuous improvement of teaching processes. In many of these initiatives, simulation plays a vital role as an innovative element.
In many of these initiatives, simulation plays a vital role as an innovative element. At the Barcelona Campus, the Faculty of Law has a courtroom, where students can simulate a real trial and test their abilities for public speaking and debate; necessary skills in the practice of the legal profession. Along the same lines, the Faculty of Communication Sciences has launched a new space for innovation and experimentation this year for students for their audiovisual projects with the latest technology in audio and video formats. The new spaces include recording studios (107 m²) and a digital newsroom (138 m²), and offer students the necessary technology to innovate with audio and video formats in class, in professional practice or in the experimentation of extracurricular projects.
As for the Sant Cugat Campus, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has the Comprehensive Centre for Advanced Simulation (CISA), a space with over 1,000m²2 that recreates with real equipment emergency and critical rooms, primary care offices and external consultations, hospitalisation rooms, an operating room, post-surgical resuscitation and home care. The main objective of this simulation unit is to promote health training, research and innovation through simulation to achieve the development of both technical and non-technical skills.
The CISA has simulators with different functions, real and up-to-date healthcare equipment and team of simulated and/or standardised patients with which we can quickly develop tailored solutions that are flexible and dynamic for all settings and health specialities. Clinical cases are directed from the control room where a complete video recording system allows for viewing any room from any angle thanks to the flexibility of its design. This same system permits posterior analysis of cases in the debriefing room.. The structure and versatility of the centre allows for the adaptation of all the spaces to each teaching need, and the development of customised programmes for a wide range of health professionals. This means that the past year more than 22,000 students and health professionals have participated in the different activities carried out at CISA, more than 6,000 hours dedicated to simulation, teaching and evaluations, managed by a team of five technicians.
Teaching innovation is also present on both campuses through projects such as the publication of B-SMART Connecting University & Business, which compiles the main results of B-SMART. Powered by the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, this initiative connects students with real business projects through challenge-based learning. The Faculty of Education Sciences also has attractive mobile classrooms with a very different concept from traditional classrooms. Writable walls, mobile whiteboards and various digital screens, among other materials, allow for cooperative and flexible working style.
As part of the innovation in higher education teaching, the Sant Cugat Campus has three university clinics where students can put their knowledge into practice under the supervision of teachers in areas such as oral health, at the University Clinic of Dentistry; psychology, in the Support University Psychology and Psychiatry Clinic; or in the field of palliative care, in Cuides UIC Barcelona.
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