Medical students of Derzhavin University presented a new development at the International Conference "Simulation Training in Medicine: Experience, Development, Innovation. ROSOMED - 2024". They demonstrated a simulation platform for practicing medical interventions on the lower limb.
A team of students majoring in General Medicine worked on the project. The team consisted of Anton Tolstykh, Evgeniya Goncharova and Oleg Bastrykin, and was supervised by Associate Professor Marta Chernysheva, the director of the Accreditation and Simulation Center of the University.
The main goal of the project was to create a mannequin for practicing skills in traumatology and orthopedics, which would accurately imitate the anatomy of the human lower limb. The students started working on the project in February last year.
- The development of the mannequin began with segmenting CT images of the human lower limb. This helped to understand which structures need to be reproduced and how to correctly position them inside the mannequin. Then they began to create the mannequin itself. For this, modern materials were used that ensure durability and realistic appearance. After creating the prototype, a series of tests were conducted to ensure that the system functions correctly, says Anton Tolstykh, a 6th-year student majoring in General Medicine.
The mannequin can be used to practice various procedures: applying an external fixation device for open and closed fractures of the shin, tamponade of a shrapnel wound, and other surgical manipulations.
At the conference, students received recommendations from specialists how to improve their invention. The simulation platform is planned to be introduced into the university's educational process and obtain a patent for their development.
