Budding scientists visit Bairnsdale
Learning: primary school students recently met Sim Man who is used to train nursing and medical students based in East Gippsland.
The School of Rural Health East & South Gippsland hosted some budding young scientists recently.
The students visited the Bairnsdale site as part of a Scientists in Schools program being run by the CSIRO.
MUDRIH lecturers Eleanor Mitchell and Angelo D’Amore are delivering the program this year in partnership with Paynesville Primary School. They team with a teacher who then rolls out the program as part of extra curricula activities.
Eleanor and Angelo visited the school twice recently, initially spending time with the grades three and four students and the following week, with grade five students. The focus was on forensic science.
As a reward for undertaking the extra curricula activities, the students visited the skills laboratory at the SRH Bairnsdale. The visit included a session with Sim Man and mannequins with students treated to hands-on simulation in both cardio vascular and asthma scenarios.
Eleanor said the visit was a great success. “Not only did the teacher and students come but a number of parents too.”