Teddy bears take over Traralgon
The teddies benefited from some high tech help, even if this primary student found it a bit confusing.
Another group of disgruntled and off-colour teddy bears, along with their owners, popped into the Gippsland Regional Clinical School to see if they could get some help to fix their ailments.
Luckily for the teddies and their carers from St Paul’s Traralgon primary school, a group of Monash University Year 3B medical students who are undertaking their studies locally this year, were on hand to provide medical aid.
The visit by the 36 grade preps was part of the Teddy Bear Hospital visits that have proved so successful. The program has been running at Monash for the past four years and aims to alleviate ‘white coat anxiety’ in children which they can associate with going to the doctor or hospital.
As usual, the students –primary and medical – learned a lot from the session and many a teddy went home feeling much better too!