Institutional development · Teaching, learning and curriculum · Netherlands
Maastricht University's Skillslab runs over 3,000 clinical training sessions a year
Maastricht University has profiled Peter Renden, who has led its Skillslab since 1 March 2026. The unit, staffed by more than 40 people, trains mainly medical students in clinical skills.
Why it matters: Medical students at Maastricht University practise clinical skills, communication and clinical reasoning in sessions delivered by the Skillslab's team of more than 40 staff.
According to Maastricht University, Peter Renden has headed the Skillslab since 1 March 2026 and also researches, supervises PhD candidates and coaches a learning team of ten first-year medical students.
Renden said the Skillslab's team of over 40 lecturers and support staff, working partly with external partners and healthcare professionals from MUMC+, delivers more than 3,000 training sessions each year.
Renden said training at the unit, used mainly by medical students, covers not only skills such as taking blood pressure or giving injections but also applying clinical knowledge, communication and clinical reasoning.
The university said Renden previously spent two years as an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Development & Research and before that was a senior lecturer in nursing at The Hague University.
Editor’s view
Sarah Williamson, Teaching, Digital and AI Editor
Medical students in Maastricht University's Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences are the main users of the Skillslab, which Renden has led since 1 March 2026 and which, by his account, delivers more than 3,000 sessions a year with over 40 lecturers and support staff.
