Our courses

We run a programme of courses throughout the year as well as delivering bespoke training packages.

Undergraduate courses

This training programme aims to provide a safe learning environment to experience a series of simulated clinical challenges designed around acute care, cancer care, elderly medicine, cardio respiratory, MSK, surgical general medicine.

Undergraduate training blocks:

To consider individual, team, and organisational factors that might enhance or impede optimal, safe patient care in the ward or ED setting
To raise your awareness of roles and responsibilities, skills and contributions of other members of the multi-professional team
To enable staff to raise concerns, handover and challenge situations using tools in a safe environment
To consider how relevant national or local policies and procedures contribute to risk management and patient safety where you work

Nurse’s role:

Reassure patient
Assist the doctors with treatment

Faculty’s role:

Observe best practice
Facilitate debrief with video play back focusing on clinical management, leadership and humans factors - group work on PACE

Medical student’s role:

History taking, A-E assessment
Assess, diagnose and treat a variety of acute clinical conditions
Communicate with/refer to senior staff as appropriate

Simulation training is specific to each clinical block covering history taking, assessment and diagnosis of each condition incorporating both medicine and human factors and non-technical skills.

Training blocks:

surgical
general
musculoskeletal
cardio respiratory
cancer care
acute care
elderly care

Each block complete skills role specific to their block.

catheterisation
cannulation
IV study
intravenous fluids setting up and prescribing
insulin sliding scale
venepuncture
oxygen therapy
airway management
blood transfusion
A-E assessment
performing an ECG and recognition
arterial blood gas sampling and analysis

Scenarios covered include:

chest pain
anaphylaxis
status epilepticus
DKA
hypoglycemia
GI bleed
pneumonia
post-surgical complications (breakdown of anastomosis, GI bleed, cholecystitis)
UTI sepsis
head injury
overdose
asthma
PPH
transfusion reaction
transfusion overload
breaking bad news
assessment and diagnosis of falls patient
communication and history taking with patients and relatives/carers
PE
neonatal and paediactric

All undergraduates are encouraged to participate in postgraduate simulation multidisciplinary team training days within their block placement.

Postgraduate courses

Foundation Year Trainees (FY1 and FY2)

Course lead: Dr N Hames

To book, go through intrepid course manager

Core medical trainee (CMT) advanced simulation course

This training programme aims to provide a safe learning environment in which to experience a series of simulated clinical challenges designed around acute care and emergency scenarios:

To consider individual, team, and organisational factors that might enhance or impede optimal, safe patient care in the ED setting
To raise your awareness of roles and responsibilities, skills and contributions of other members of the multi-professional team
To consider how relevant national or local policies and procedures contribute to risk management and patient safety where you work.
CT 2 to lead the team in management of 2 simulated acutely unwell patients whilst being distracted with bleeps from junior doctors requiring support on the ward and GP referrals.

Doctor’s role:

Assess, diagnose and treat a variety of acute clinical conditions
Communicate with/refer to senior staff as appropriate

Faculty’s role:

Observe best practice
Facilitate debrief with video play back focusing on clinical management and humans factors

Nurse’s role:

Assist the doctors in history taking

Observations (HCA)

Medications

Treatment

Life support

Reassure the patient and relatives

Course lead Dr F Poyner

To book, contact Denise Swift

Core medical trainee (CMT) CT1 and CT2 clinical skills course

USS chest drain - LP
USS CVC - Abdominal paracentesis
Cardioversion and pacing - NG

To book, email Gemma Denny

Higher Specialist Trainee (HST) course

Course lead Dr F Poyner link to

To book, email Gemma Denny

MDT paediatric regional teaching course

This training programme aims to provide a safe learning environment in which to experience a series of simulated clinical challenges designed around acute care of paediactric scenarios:

To consider individual, team, and organisational factors that might enhance or impede optimal, safe patient care in the ED and paediatric ward setting
To raise your awareness of roles and responsibilities, skills and contributions of other members of the multi-professional team
To consider how relevant national or local policies and procedures contribute to risk management and patient safety where you work.
Team leader and team member roles within the paediactric team.

Doctor’s role

Assess, diagnose and treat a variety of acute clinical conditions
Communicate with/refer to senior staff as appropriate

Faculty’s role

Observe best practice
Facilitate debrief with video play back focusing on clinical management and humans factors, using headlines and PACE tools

Nurse’s role

Assist the doctors in history taking
Observations (HCA)
Medications
Treatment
Life support
Reassure the patient and relatives

Lead Dr C Chadwick

To book, email Gemma Denny

Quality Improvement project

Information to follow

Simulation faculty programme

This training programme aims to provide faculty with updates on new concepts in simulation training. It provides material for faculty to use for their own development, material to use in simulation training sessions and an opportunity for dialogue and exchange within the faculty.

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The training topics are: