University News Last updated 18 June 2009
Health students from Birmingham City University, the University of Birmingham and the University of Worcester have been training together at our Faculty of Health as part of a pilot scheme.
Nursing, medicine and radiography students treated a ‘patient', played in turn by an actor and a life-like mannequin, who was having a heart attack. The scenario took the students from diagnosing the condition, to performing CPR on the mannequin. The Centre for Innovation & Training in Elective Care (CITEC) project, which is led by local Higher Education Institutes and NHS trusts helps students studying different disciplines to learn to work together, just as they will have to once they are qualified and on the wards.
The Birmingham Mail visited the Faculty of Health and filmed students as they were put through their paces, which can be viewed on the newspaper's website.