Transition Year students experience life as a junior
doctor at the Saolta Simulation Centre
After the success of the inaugural SIMMed School in 2014,
over 30 transition year (TY) students from across the West of Ireland attended
the Saolta Simulation Centre at University Hospital Galway on Monday 23th March
2015 to experience what it is like to be a junior doctor.
SIMMed School is a programme developed at Saolta
University Health Care Group for transition year students with an interest in
pursuing a career in medicine. It is designed to immerse the student into the
world of a junior doctor, managing acute medical emergency scenarios,
performing procedures, communicating with relatives and staff, while working as
part of a multidisciplinary team in a simulated environment.
The students perform technical skills using high tech
simulators that lookS and feels like any human being. The skills demonstrated
and taughtinclude taking blood, connecting drips, passing a urinary catheter,
applying a plaster cast and learning to suture wounds.
SiMMed School is the brainchild of Dr. Dara Byrne, the
Director of Simulation and Intern Co-ordinator for the Saolta Hospital Group.
Speaking at the event, she said
"This is a first of its kind programme for transition year students
in the West of Ireland. It is a fully
immersive experience for students with an interest in a career in medicine.
They experience first-hand what it is like to work as a junior doctor. They
embrace the challenge and learn the importance of being both technically
skilled and a good communicator.”
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