Training Opportunities
Clinical Skills Training For Austwide Locums Affiliated Doctors
In a first for locum agencies Austwide Locums has ongoing arrangements with the course Directors at the Simulation Units at Royal North Shore and St Vincents hospitals that opens up attractive new opportunities for clinical skills training.
Doctors affiliated with Austwide Locums are encouraged and supported to attend one or more of these courses where they see it as appropriate. We are happy to cover the full cost of the St Vincents programme and will heavily subsidise the more extensive 2 day course at Royal North Shore.
Courses currently available:
St Vincent's Hospital - Don Harrison Patient Safety Simulation Centre
Advanced Life Support Course
Clinical Skills Workshops
Advanced Life Support (ALS)
ALS Algorithm
Drug Management
Reversible Causes
Defribillation and External Pacing
Airway Management
- Airway Adjuncts - Guedels, Nasopharyngeal Airway
- Bag and Mask Ventilation
Simulated Arrest Scenarios
Roles and Communication
Session Duration: 4 hours
Royal North Shore Hospital - Sydney Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre
Emergency Medicine Crisis Management (EMCM)
Participants receive intensive hands-on training using high fidelity immersive simulation, skills and drills training, problem-based learning, group discussion and other training methods.
Course Aims
- Prepares emergency medicine doctors to manage serious acute problems.
- Develops skills in crisis management, team leadership, communication and Human Factors.
Applied Knowledge
- A systematic approach to the sick patient in the Emergency Department.
- Management of common emergencies encountered in the ED environment: airway obstruction, acute respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, shock, arrhythmias, neurological, coma, seizures, poisoning, electrolyte and environmentally acquired disorders.
- Team-leadership, teamwork and commmunication, crisis management, human error.
Skills
- Airway: Intubation in suspected C-spine injury; difficult intubation strategies, surgical airway, Laryngeal Mask Airway.
- Breathing: O2 therapy, positive pressure ventilation via endotracheal tube; BiPhasic Positive Airway Pressure [BiPAP].
- Cardiovascular: Advanced Cardiac Life Support; Defribillation, synchronised DC Cardioversion, Trans-cutaneous cardiac pacing.
Attitudes and Practice
- Error Prevention
- Self knowledge and appropriate help seeking
Topics Not Covered
- Trauma
- Paediatrics
Royal North Shore Hospital - Sydney Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre
Paediatric Training Courses
Participants receive intensive hands-on training using high fidelity immersive simulation, skills and drills training, problem-based learning, group discussion and other training methods.
Course Aims
- Team-based care of acutely ill children.
- Develops skills in crisis management, team leadership, communication and Human Factors.
Specific Objectives
- A systematic approach to the sick child in the Emergency Department or Ward.
- Team-based rehearsal of realistic problems and emergency algorithms.
- Non–technical skills: teamwork, communication & safety culture.
- A child-focused approached to care of sick children.
Training Methods
- Clinical skills workshops
- Pause and discuss scenarios
- Immersive simulation and reflective debriefing
To enquire further about these courses and your attendance at them please contact Liz Swinnerton on 02 9736 3320.
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