PIMCE - Pograma integral enfermo critico y emergencias | PIMCE - Education program critical care and emergency medicine

PIMCE - Pograma integral enfermo critico y emergencias | PIMCE - Education program critical care and emergency medicine PIMCE - Pograma integral enfermo critico y emergencias

Who are we?

In 2005, a team of professionals from ICU, Emergency, and Emergency departments of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona, the Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques, and the Institut Universitari Parc Taulí identified a fundamental training need: To provide comprehensive and multidisciplinary training in the key competencies needed to care for critically ill patients and manage emergency situations, thereby fostering collaboration, effective communication, and shared learning. This is how the Comprehensive Critical Care and Emergencies Program (PIMCE) was born, which has established partnerships with national and international institutions.

Innovation, excellence, and global vision in critical and emergency care

Over the years, PIMCE has stood out for its ability to innovate and adapt, incorporating cutting-edge simulation technologies, advanced audiovisual resources, and dynamic methodologies that reinforce clinical practice and team decision-making. Professional development also requires research and progress, so we include training that promotes scientific advances to respond to the changing challenges of critical care.

Today, more than 3,200 professionals—a third of them from other countries—have successfully completed our programs, with a 95% pass rate. These results reaffirm our commitment to innovative training, based on teamwork and oriented to the real needs of critical and emergency care.

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Founders and Program Management

Josep M. Nicolás Arfelis

Specialist in Internal Medicine and Intensive Medicine. Doctor of Medicine. Director of the Institute of Medicine, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Professor of Medicine, University of Barcelona.

Carmen Sellán Soto

Diploma in Nursing, Doctor of Psychology. Contracted Professor. Department of Nursing. Faculty of Medicine. Autonomous University of Madrid.

Javier Ruiz Moreno

Specialist in Intensive Medicine. Doctor of Medicine. Quality Coordination, Hospital Universitari Sagrat Cor de Barcelona. Associate Professor, University of Barcelona.

Miquel Sanz Moncusí

Diploma in Nursing, Master's Degree. Nursing Coordinator, Digestive Diseases Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Associate Professor, University of Barcelona.

Gemma Martínez Estalella

Diploma in Nursing, Master's Degree. Strategy Management, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Former President of SEEIUC. Associate Professor, University of Barcelona.

Xavier Jiménez Fàbrega

Specialist in Family and Community Medicine. Doctor of Medicine. Director of Research and Development, Sistema d'Emergències Mèdiques de Catalunya. Associate Professor, University of Barcelona.

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Teaching innovation at PIMCE

Clinical Simulation Laboratory

Simulation is essential for training in critical patient and emergency care, offering advanced technology such as high-fidelity simulators and virtual reality. These spaces allow for the generation of practical and realistic learning experiences, which foster key competencies such as teamwork, communication, leadership, and clinical decision-making, helping to improve the safety and quality of care for critical and semi-critical patients.

Audiovisual Unit

This unit combines advanced technology and creativity to design and develop educational resources such as teaching capsules, procedural videos, simulated clinical cases for training in clinical decisions, and virtual reality content. Its objective is to generate learning resources that support the academic development of each student according to the teaching plans of the PIMCE offer.

Our commitment

Mission

To train committed professionals, with solid clinical training, mastery of advanced technology, and research capacity, to raise the quality of critical and emergency care

Vision

To be an international benchmark in the training of professionals capable of responding with excellence, innovation, and teamwork to the needs of the critically ill patient and emergencies

Values

Rigor and scientific evidence. Teaching innovation and cutting-edge technologies. Interdisciplinary teamwork. Ethical and human commitment. Scientific and research vocation