{"id":3416,"date":"2014-09-29T11:27:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T00:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T00:27:35","slug":"simhealthsimtech-t-a-showcase-of-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2014\/09\/29\/simhealthsimtech-t-a-showcase-of-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"SimHealth\/SimTech T a showcase of simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laurea Atkinson from School of Rural Health East Gippsland had access to the best of simulation in Australia when she attended the <a title=\"Opens the SimHealth conference website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.simhealth.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">SimHealth\/SimTec T Conference<\/a> in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>Simulation on show came from sectors including healthcare, aviation, defences and games industries.<\/p>\n<p>Laurea was one of five successful recipients of the SimHeatlh\/SimTec T Conference travel awards. She presented a poster \u201cSimulation Education in the Rural Sector: Can we make a difference?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The conference was attended by 650 delegates from Australia, America, United Kingdom, Korea, Israel and New Zealand.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Following the opening welcome and a discussion on differences in the use of simulation within industries, there was a spectacular change of pace. The centre stage was transformed into a motor vehicle accident rescue, complete with emergency workers sliding down ropes from the rafters to a transformer designed vehicle utilised in training exercises for emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>The poster hub showcased projects such as the development of a portable and sustainable simulation-based program for health professionals in rural and remote areas.<\/p>\n<p>Laurea attended many and varied sessions over the three days of the conference including an oral presentation on \u201cCamp Simulation \u2013 a Rural Initiative\u201d. This session, which drew on involvement by the Ambulance Community Officers (ACOs) in rural and remote Victoria, was presented by Terry Houge.<\/p>\n<p>Coordination of the training sessions for the ACOs is a joint effort in which Laurea is involved as the Simulated Learning Environment Project Officer for East Gippsland. It was a proud moment for Laurea to hear Terry present this report around such important training and learning initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurea Atkinson from School of Rural Health East Gippsland had access to the best of simulation in Australia when she attended the SimHealth\/SimTec T Conference in Adelaide. Simulation on show came from sectors including healthcare, aviation, defences and games industries. Laurea was one of five successful recipients of the SimHeatlh\/SimTec T Conference travel awards. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2014\/09\/29\/simhealthsimtech-t-a-showcase-of-simulation\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[773,3335],"tags":[1377,3560,3556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}