What happens on a typical training day?

Please arrive between 8:30 – 8:45am. This means that the worst of the traffic will be missed and the day can finish at 4.30pm, again to miss the traffic!! Those who travelled by car will be pleasantly surprised with the ease of parking.

Welcome
After introductions and refreshments there will usually be an initial “lecture” and orientation of the Centre. Those undertaking theatre scenarios will also change to theatre greens. You will rapidly find that our style of education is very interactive. Everyone brings his or her own experience and expertise and we want this to be part of the day. Lunch is not provided so please bring your own or money to buy from the WRVS or canteen. The centre provides free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, soup and chilled water but canned drinks are 50p each.

Scenarios and Debriefing

Most of the training within the Centre will involve scenarios. These will be realistic “simulated” clinical events relevant to the course. Each scenario is designed to highlight particular educational objectives. They are not designed to catch people out! The faculty from the Centre will facilitate these scenarios and help where necessary. These scenarios are videoed to facilitate debriefing. Once the scenario has been completed, all participants and observers will gather in the seminar room and debrief the scenario. This process is designed to highlight good practice and highlight areas for improvement. The faculty will highlight certain points with the use of the video.

Confidentiality

We aim to provide an enjoyable stimulating training day. To help this we have a confidentiality agreement that anything that happens within the Centre is not discussed outside the Centre unless agreed to by the whole group. A simulated clinical event is not a real event for many reasons so individual actions may be different to that which would happen in a real situation.

Only in the event of someone displaying behaviour that is deemed unacceptably dangerous would the faculty consider it their responsibility to speak to that person's ‘line manager’ and then only after trying to resolve the issue with the person concerned.

The videos will be used for debriefing and retained for use by the Co-Directors for training faculty within the Centre and anonymised audit / research of pooled data. If we intend to use the videos for anything else we will ask for specific consent from the person(s) involved.