Obstetrics Simulators: Simulation Training in Obstetrics for Medical Students

Over the years, simulation has proved itself to be a valuable tool in teaching and training for obstetric and gynecological scenarios. The various scenarios and situations simulated are able to give medical aspirants a chance for hands-on exposure to all the different procedures and situations that might crop up in a safe, non-judgmental learning environment- without the possibility of causing harm to a real patient. The use of such low-/high-fidelity simulators and VR simulators allow the aspirants an improvement in their level of skill and knowledge alike. And with repeated practice, they make fewer errors. Simulation training in obstetrics, along with skill assessment, allows for learning with patient safety, and improves patient outcomes.

Obstetrics Simulators: The past and the present

Simulation training in obstetrics and gynecology is a way to improve related skills without having to compromise patient safety. Earlier, things were not the same. Students would be involved in treating real patients. They would make mistakes and even burn out. Women would often prefer to maintain privacy, and students would not learn a lot waiting outside. But students don’t learn just from theory. They need to practice. Now, with simulators available for this, students can practice procedures and tasks in a safe environment without exposure to real patients, while also building communication skills and decision making skills in the process. They get a safe space to make mistakes and learn from them. And when trained by simulation, students go into practice knowing what they are doing, and delivering quality patient care.

What skills do they help build?

With high-quality, realistic obstetrics simulators with laparascopic and robotic operative simulations, trainees can practice procedures and skills for the following:

• Standard delivery
• Postpartum hemorrhage
• Instrument deliveries
• Shoulder dustocia
• Fetal malpresentation
• Massive blood transfusion protocol
• Disseminated intravascular coagulation
• Amniotic fluid emboli
• Hysterectomy
• Oophorectomy
• Salpingectomy
• Access to the abdomen

Apart from these procedure-centric skills, the simulators also help build soft skills like communication skills and decision making skills.

Obstetrics Simulators to the Rescue

Simulation-led training can prevent a lot of uncomfortable situations. Let’s take a few examples.

• Let’s take the example of an IUD. Students need to learn how to place an IUD, but it is unlikely that they will ever get the chance to place an IUD inside a real patient. So the student has no way to understand the fundamentals and the anatomy involved. But with a simulator like our Family Planning Educator, the student gets a chance to experience the process first-hand. And a realistic simulator makes for a more surreal experience, and the student learns better (in this case).
• Most women would not be comfortable being given intimate exams like breast exams, pelvic exams, labor cervical exams, endometrial biopsies, and hysteroscopies by students or residents. These are all private assessments. Virtual Reality and other simulators can make exposure possible for students so they can develop these skills.
• If a student is performing a labor cervical exam on a pregnant woman, not only will it take him a while to locate the cervix, all the waiting around will make the patient uncomfortable in an already tense scenario. The student might also feel the pressure to speed it up. Low-fidelity manikins are the better option to allow the students to get comfortable and feel around, familiarizing themselves with everything as they try to locate the cervix.

70 Realistic, Professional-Quality Obstetrics Simulators You Need to Get

1. 2 cm cervix insert for birth progress monitoring trainer
2. 2 Early Pregnant Uteri
3. 3B Birthing Simulator Basic
4. 3B Birthing Stages Trainer
5. 4 cm cervix insert for birth progress monitoring trainer
6. 8 cm cervix insert for birth progress monitoring trainer
7. Anesthesiology Lab Kit
8. Articulating Fetus
9. Birth mechanism for birth simulator 1005790
10. Birthing Simulator
11. Birthing Simulator
12. Birthing Simulator RealMom 2.0
13. Birthing Simulator with 5 Different Cervices, 7 part
14. Birthing Simulator, dark
15. Birthing Station Simulator
16. Blood Powder (4.5 l)
17. Blood reservoir for PPH Trainer P97 (set of 5)
18. C-Section Fetal Extraction Trainer – C-Celia
19. Cervical Dilatation and Effacement Simulators
20. ECG/Umbilical Cannulation Skin
21. Emergency C-Section & Delivery Trainer – C-Celia
22. Emergency Hysterectomy Trainer – C-Celia
23. Empathy Belly
24. Episiotomy and Suturing Trainer
25. Episiotomy Suture Training Module for Birthing Simulator P90
26. Episiotomy Suturing Simulator, Set of 3
27. Fetal Baby
28. Fetal Heart Rate Monitor Simulator CTGi
29. Fetal Monitoring and Labor Progress Model Set
30. Fetus for Vacuum Delivery
31. Fetus Model
32. Full Term Newborn for Forceps and Vacuum Delivery
33. Internal Fetal Monitor Trainer
34. Intro to Obstetrics Lab Basic Kit
35. Labor Delivery Module for use with birthing simulator W45025
36. Model for Gynecological Patient Education – 3B Smart Anatomy
37. Model of Placenta & Umbilical Cord
38. NEW SIM
39. NOELLE® Birthing Simulator with articulating birthing fetus
40. Noelle® Birthing Simulator with birthing and resuscitation baby
41. Noelle® Birthing Simulator with birthing and resuscitation baby, dark
42. Noelle® Birthing Simulator with PEDI® Blue Neonate
43. Noelle® Birthing Simulator with PEDI® Blue Neonate, dark
44. Noelle® Birthing Torso with birthing baby
45. Normal cervices
46. Obstetrical Manikin, Light
47. Obstetrical Manikins and Child Birthing Simulators | Advanced Gynecology
48. Palpation Model for Leopold’s Maneuver
49. Palpation Module for Leopold’s Maneuvers
50. Pelvic Foam part for PPH Trainer P97
51. Pelvic Model
52. Placenta
53. Placentas for PPH Trainer P97 (set of 10)
54. Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH) Control Trainer – C-Celia
55. Postpartum Hemorrhage Trainer – PPH Trainer P97
56. Postpartum Uterus
57. Postpartum Uterus 10 minutes
58. Pregnant Overlay with Foetus
59. Premie Baby for Forceps/OB for 1000002
60. Replacement abdominal wall for gynecological simulator
61. Replacement Skin
62. Replacement vulva insert for birth simulator
63. Susie® Advanced OB Simulator
64. Susie® OB Simulator
65. Umbilical cord clamps for birth simulator
66. Umbilical cords for birth simulator
67. Upgrade Kit for 3B Birthing Simulator Basic
68. Uterus for PPH Trainer
69. Vagina and Abdominal cover for PPH Trainer P97
70. Vulva

Students learn by doing. And they get excited when they get to do things. It makes them engage and interact more as well. They also benefit from the learning assessment and feedback. Manikins and actors (people who will act like a real patient) make the experience feel more realistic. Together, it all makes for a smoother experience and removes the pressure.