MASON CITY — A mobile education truck has been in Mason City this week to help provide hands-on clinical education for local EMTs, paramedic and EMS students.
The University of Iowa’s Simulation in Motion-Iowa is a statewide mobile education program that delivers high-quality, evidence-based clinical training to EMS providers, hospital teams, businesses and community members across the state. The semi-sized mobile simulation trucks emulate an emergency room bay and an ambulance setting, and includes things like video recording for analysis and debriefing, as well as houses six advanced patient simulators capable of mimicking realistic human responses.
Jason Smith is the western regional coordinator for the SIM-Iowa program. “We offer training in emergency medicine in the high acuity, low frequency situations, so that’s the stuff that’s super dangerous and can end lives very quickly but doesn’t happen very often, stuff that we just don’t see every day.”…