Picture showing a 'dead' OPFOR soldier with moulage.

Moulage (French: casting/moulding) is the art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training Emergency Response Teams and other medical and military personnel. Moulage may be as simple as applying pre-made rubber or latex "wounds" to a healthy "patient's" limbs, chest, head, etc., or as complex as using complicated makeup and theatre techniques to provide elements of realism (such as blood, vomitus, open fractures, etc.) to the training simulation. The practice dates to at least the Renaissance, when wax figures were utilized for this purpose.

Picture showing medical soldiers working on a training aid (dummy) with moulage.

It is also now common to use Moulage in order to train Boy Scouts for shock desensitization.

[edit] History of Medical Moulage

The history of wax models has been very old, but wax anatomical models were first made by Gaetano Guilio Zummo(1656-1701)who first worked in Napoli, then Florence and then Paris, where he got the monopoly right by Luis fourteenth. Later Jules Baretta (1834-1923) made more than 2000 splendid wax models in Hospital Saint-Louis, Paris, where more than 4000 wax models were collected. While wax models were being made, he made pleasant conversations with the patients, sang songs or at times played the piano. Moulages were made for the education of dermatology in the world, but the popularization of color slides put an end to the medical moulages.

In the 19th century a Moulage was taken of medical patients for educational purposes. The prepared model has been painted in the design of the original disease.

[edit] See also

• Makeup
• EMS
• Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE)

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Moulage

• Museum of Moulages, University of Zurich (English/ German)
• German Atlas with Moulages (E.Jacobi, 1913)
• Museum of Health Care at Kingston (English)
• Museum of Health Care collection database(English)

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