{"id":541,"date":"2014-09-09T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mase\/?p=541"},"modified":"2014-09-09T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:16:49","slug":"lifelab-summer-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/lifelab-summer-school\/","title":{"rendered":"LifeLab Summer School"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Life<\/a><\/p>\n

Recently forty students, in Years 8-10, from across the South of England, attended the LifeLab Summer School for \u200eprospective Medics.\u200e<\/p>\n

The programmes included a range of exciting, informative and hands-on workshops delivered by Medical Students, \u200eIntensive Care Consultants, Emergency Department Nurses and other Healthcare Professionals.\u200e
\nThe young people were able to try suturing and basic life support, and also use some of the equipment developed \u200eby the British Armed Forces for managing catastrophic haemorrhage. They had to put some of those skills to the \u200etest when they met SIM Man and learned how to assess and manage a patient who is acutely unwell.\u200e<\/p>\n

A practical anatomy workshop based around case histories gave students a real insight into how they might learn at \u200emedical school. They were taught how to use stethoscopes to listen for heart and lung sounds and worked out \u200ehow these related to the anatomy they were looking at on models.\u200e
\nThe event was supported by the Critical Care Programme at University Hospital Southampton who ran a thrilling \u200etrauma simulation, based around a child actor who had severe burns. Students were then able to explore some of \u200ethe equipment they had seen in the simulation when they tried intubation on models. Students were also \u200eextremely privileged to be taken on a tour of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department.\u200e<\/p>\n

The Keynote Speaker was Surgeon, Mr Tim Underwood. Tim captivated students with the description of his day-\u200eto-day work, and inspired them with videos and pictures of the pioneering work he does in cancer treatment and \u200eresearch.\u200e<\/p>\n

The Students finished the programme by presenting some of their learning and experience to their parents who \u200estayed to attend a talk from the Medical Admissions team on applying for Medical School.\u200e
\nDr. Hannah Davey, LifeLab Teaching Fellow commented \u201cIt was clear that the students found the whole \u200eexperience to be exciting and engaging. We hope that we have inspired some fantastic future Doctors!\u201d\u200e<\/p>\n

LifeLab is a science education intervention designed to change young people\u2019s attitudes and behaviour towards \u200etheir own health, and the health of their future children, through a hands-on, science-oriented teaching package.\u200e LifeLab is a collaboration of researchers from the University’s Education School<\/a>, Faculty of Medicine<\/a>, and the Mathematics and Science Learning Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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