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1st ever Medical Simulation Olympics organized by the Center for Advanced Simulation in Olympics,

Gulf Medical University was won by GMC Hospital Ajman team. Such medical simulation olympics are

conducted for the first time in entire region.

MedSim Olympics 2015 were held as part the first Annual Conference on Recent Trends in Clinical Skills

and Medical Simulation organized by the Center for Advanced Simulation in Healthcare GMU on the 9th

of April 2015. The preliminaries were held on the 4th of April. National Ambulance Abu Dhabi, Al Mafraq

Hospital Abu Dhabi and GMC Hospital Ajman were the three teams who cleared the prelims and entered

finals. Mafraq Hospital and National Ambulance won silver and bronze medals respectively.

The conference held for the first time by CASH was attended by more than 200 delegates from all over

the country. His Excellency Dr. Yusuf Al Serkal, Assistant undersecretary Hospital Affairs MoH, was the

Chief Guest and Thumbay Moideen Founder President Board of Governors GMU was the Guest of

honor.

The finals were judged by Dr. Tim Kristensen, Denmark, Prof Guillaume Alinier, Qatar, Professor Robert

O’Brien, Australia, Ms. Carrie Hamilton United Kingdom, Dr. Ayad Al-Moslih, Sharjah University and Prof.

Manda Venkatramana, GMU Ajman. Prof. Gita Ashok Raj, Provost GMU gave away the prizes and

trophies to the winners.

Ms. Zahra Al Hilali, Territory Director, Middle East & North Africa at American Heart Association who

attended the conference and witnessed the Olympics said that she is highly impressed with the event

and wished more such events to be organized in the country. MedSim Olympics is an excellent idea and

having set the precedent, C.A.S.H can become the leaders in this field and hold many such scientific

events in the region. She assured of complete support of AHA for all the educational activities

undertaken by C.A.S.H.

One of the speakers Dr. Ayad Moslih felt that the idea of combining Simulation Olympics along with the

conference is an Idea beyond excellence. He added that he had a very rich learning experience listening

to international experts.

Some of the keynote talks delivered were Simulation – based Team Training – Implementing Best

Practices in a Healthcare Setting by Dr. Tim Kristensen, Department of Pediatrics and Danish Institute for

Medical Simulation, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Integrating Simulation Across

Undergraduate Health Professions Education by Prof. Manda Venkatramana, Director, CASH, Gulf

Medical University, Ajman, UAE,  Immersive Simulation  in  Advanced Life Support Training by Dr. Ayad

Al-Moslih, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Trends in Interprofessional

Simulation Learning by Prof Guillaume Alinier, Head of Research, HMC Ambulance Service, Doha, Qatar,

Professor of Simulation in Healthcare Education, University of Hertfordshire, UK, Simulated Patients,

Hybrid and Multimodal Simulation by Ms. Carrie Hamilton, Simulated Patient Lead, University Hospital

Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and Trends in Research in Simulation based Medical Education by

Professor Robert O’Brien, Clinical Education Fellow, University of Melbourne, Department of Medical

Education.

All the visiting dignitaries later attended the first External Advisory Board Meeting for C.A.S.H. they have

formulated strategies and plans to enhance the center to one of the leading simulation centers in the

region.

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