Telangana: Osmania Medical College gets first-of-its-kind Skill Lab

Director of Medical Education, Dr K Ramesh Reddy inaugurated the first-of-its-kind Skill Lab at Osmania Medical College on Wednesday. The lab is a prototype demo and learning facility for healthcare professionals to fine-tune their clinical skills and caters to nearly 500 UG, PG and para-medical technicians every year.

Osmania Medical College in Telangana got the first of its kind Skill Lab. The main objective of the Skill Lab is to enable young doctors to fine-tune their procedural skills before embarking on real-life applications. It was inaugurated by the Director of Medical Education, Dr K Ramesh Reddy.

The Skill Lab at Osmania Medical College is a prototype demo and learning facility for healthcare professionals to fine-tune their clinical skills and caters to nearly 500 undergraduate, postgraduate, and para-medical technicians every year.

“In recent times, we have seen young people dying and such individuals can be saved if we administer CPR properly. Facilities like Skill Lab help in imparting such life saving skills. More skill labs will be established at Gandhi Hospital, Kakatiya Medical College, Nizamabad and Siddipet and we will seek sanction for similar facilities in 17 government medical colleges in Telangana,” Dr Ramesh Reddy said, as reported by Telangana Today.

Trainers of Skill Lab got trained 

The trainers at the Skill Lab got a five-day training from March 13 to March 17, 2023, for paediatric, anaesthetic, medical, surgical, and obstetrics speciality doctors from Government Medical College, Nizamabad, Gandhi Medical College, Guntur Medical College and Kakatiya Medical College.

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