Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, Training to Strengthen Medical Expertise Competency of Health Teachers

"Confident in Handling Emergencies Through Experiential Practice Training"
At the Student Health Promotion Center... Education Focused on Experiential Emergency Response
Over 250 Health Teachers from Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle, High, and Special Schools Participated from September to November

Musculoskeletal emergency first aid training scene.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Tae-hee) will conduct competency enhancement training for school nurses to improve their medical expertise from the 23rd through November at the Student Health Promotion Center.

The Student Health Promotion Center, which opened in May, is equipped with a medical simulation room where practical emergency treatment training and experiential education tailored to various emergency situations can be thoroughly conducted.

In the medical simulation room, participants can experience emergency treatment practice in an environment similar to a hospital emergency room, including first aid, trauma care, emergency response to cardiac arrest, fracture treatment, oxygen administration for asthma and respiratory distress, emergency medication administration, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), blood pressure and pulse measurement using tablets, and peripheral oxygen saturation measurement.

This training targets school nurses assigned to kindergartens, elementary, middle, high, special, and various other schools, with approximately 250 participants divided into 15 groups of 15 people each over 15 sessions. The training is conducted in small groups focusing on practical exercises rather than one-time lecture-based sessions.

The training focuses on emergency treatment for musculoskeletal emergencies most frequently occurring in schools. Instead of theoretical lectures, practical education is provided on topics such as upper and lower limb fractures and dislocations, muscle and tendon injuries, ligament injuries, muscle cramps, and skull and orbital fractures, including techniques like triangular bandages, bandaging methods, and various splint applications.

Kim Dong-kwon, Director of the Physical Education and Health Division at the Provincial Office of Education, stated, “Until now, emergency treatment training was mainly lecture-based, making it difficult to apply in actual emergency situations at schools. We will actively support practice-oriented education by establishing the medical simulation room at the Student Health Promotion Center.”

Meanwhile, the Student Health Promotion Center is the nation’s first out-of-school platform specialized in health and medical fields based on experience, training, and research. It offers future-oriented health experience education based on edutech through facilities such as the Smart Health Experience Room, Activity-based Complex Experience Room, and Medical Simulation Room.