Simulation Center Health School - Polytechnic of Porto

Reference: ESSIM1

https://www.ess.ipp.pt/investigacao/centros-de-formacao-apoio-comunidade/unidade-de-simulacoes

The ESSim, Simulation Centre of the School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, was created in 2019 as a Training Centre for Community Support. It currently has 70 collaborators from different areas of health training, with a particular bias on the professions allied to medicine, relating to rehabilitation, medical imagery and laboratory technicians among others.

ESSim's mission is to promote the use of simulation in educational and professional context.

Its main goals are, the production, application and dissemination of knowledge for the use of simulation, in the process of teaching /learning of health professions; the development of training programs on simulation and using simulation for promotion and evaluation of competencies; the production and dissemination of knowledge for the use of simulation as an adjunctive instrument of diagnosis and therapeutic intervention; and collaboration in the development of instruments / tools, namely for the use of software for its purposes.