The SkillRace was held on 4 and 5 October 2024 at the UPMS Medical Skills Education and Innovation Centre (MSEIC) for the second time, aiming to assess medical manual skills. Among the competing teams, the ones from Pécs achieved the best results.
SkillRace is a competition in which teams from four medical schools in Hungary compete against each other, namely the general medicine and dentistry students from the University of Debrecen, the University of Szeged, the University of Pécs, and Semmelweis University. During the competition, the contestants had to perform tasks such as airway management, suturing, resuscitation, transfusion, cervical examination, or dental filling.
“This year’s winners of the all-day, physically and mentally demanding competition were teams from Pécs in both the general medicine and dentistry categories. To ensure the impartiality of the competition, the juries consisted of the staff and teachers of the medical schools, county teaching hospitals, the national ambulance service, and clinical specialists of the UP Clinical Centre,” said Fruzsina Abuczki, a staff member of UPMS MSEIC and also one of the organisers of the competition.
She also pointed out that there were new programmes compared to last year: on the second day, they held interactive workshops in which the team of the Békés County Central Hospital, the Defence Innovation Research Institute, and the Operational Medicine group of MSEIC also participated. In addition, teachers from the Medical School of Pécs, together with participants from the partner universities, organised a roundtable discussion on current, daily educational issues, which attracted a great deal of interest.
The event is an initiative from Pécs, completely unique in the country, organised by the UPMS Medical Skills Education and Innovation Centre, based on the concept of the Medical Cup.
“We started to think, what if we organise something similar but the teams would compete with their medical skills? We were aiming to allow medical and dentistry students to show and develop their practical skills in a playful way,” said Dr. Szilárd Rendeki, Director of MSEIC, earlier.
SkillRace will be held again next year due to its huge success.
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