Karaganda State Medical University bought new equipment for teaching clinical skills.

“TELEMENTOR” is the unique equipment in the Republic of Kazakhstan. This is an interactive system of semi-automatic quality control for performing medical procedures with established clinical scenarios. The simulator is a universal software and hardware complex for self-mastering of medical skills and abilities, studying of medical tests, communicative and cognitive medical competences with the use of teacher-substituting and patient-replacement technologies, as well as technologies of automatization and objectification of control.

Advantages of equipment:

• Automated objective control;

• Self-training opportunities;

• Use of unified requirements for implementation of procedures;

• Ready-made platform for conducting OSCE;

• Automatic assessment of skill performance;

• Realistic imitation of patient's behavior when interviewing;

• Selection of virtual character for patient;

• Option of assigning research and obtaining data;

• Automatic speech recognition, etc.

Students successfully use the new equipment in the educational process.

G.S. Kemelova

Center of Practical Skills