The “Shifa Clinical Skills and informatics laboratory” (SCIL) is designed for teaching and assessing learners at all levels of undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum. It provides the faculty members, medical students and nursing students with the skills to facilitate and enhance learning with the help of cutting edge technology tools, manikins, models and simulations.
These practical skills are essential and the learners are required to display these in encounters with patients and mastered by any physician. SCIL provides learners with the idea setting to practice the clinical and procedural skills, history taking, physical examination, communication and interpersonal skills. These simulated patient encounters transition students from the classroom to real patient contact in safe environment.
Among regular sessions, Life support courses are also conducted in the SCIL. All the active learning experiences in the clinical skills lab and the enhancement of the scientific principles in the technical skills prepare the student for real life situation and the ability to engage in self directed
learning activities.