Remote & Restorative Course for Doctors in Training

Category: Training - Other

Date: September 18th 2023 9:00am until September 19th 2023 5:00pm

Location: Bracken Tor YHA, Okehampton

 

This 2-day remote and restorative course aims to enhance existing clinical and professional skills, restore enthusiasm for our profession and deliver practical tools in resilience and mental health that can be used daily in personal and professional lives.

The course is delivered through a highly experienced faculty using simulation, workshops, lectures and open discussions, all taking place in a beautiful outdoor setting. The course provides clinical remote medicine simulation training with a focus on crew resource management (CRM), teamwork and leadership as well as structured mental health and resilience workshops.

Wellbeing is woven in throughout the course: open  discussions are encouraged during every session; the course is held off site with evening meal and campfire chats enabling reconnection with our colleagues. Wellbeing activities such as yoga, nature walks and kayaking form part of our extra curricular content.

Why this matters

Our team is passionate about looking after our NHS workforce. We reduce any stigma associated with wellbeing and resilience, and create a culture of openness, support and strength. We deliver a course that is engaging, fosters connection and ensures all participants feel valued and heard.

What you will learn

Leadership and Human Factors

  • Explore our own and others leadership styles.
  • Appreciate how human factors impact on daily practice in normal and stressful conditions.
  • Understand the importance of leading to enable followership.
  • Recognise the leadership and human factor elements when managing remote casualties with unfamiliar equipment.

Moving and packaging casualties

  • Understand the practical application of Nexus rules and C-spine immobilisation.
  • Explore methods of safely moving and packaging patients with spinal injuries.
  • Enable quality team-working when evacuating casualties over difficult terrain.

Resilience discussion

  • Awareness of common situational themes that will affect personal resilience.
  • Understanding of task vs personal resources and factors that lead to either challenge or threat mindset.
  • Situational risk factors for PTSD.
  • Importance of developing our own personal resources including support network to meet career challenges.
  • Applying methods of debriefing and processing high demand situations.
  • Course content and intended learning outcomes

Global Health and Sustainability

  • Understand the core concepts and constructs of Global health
  • Appreciate how interconnected the world is and that global health affects all of us
  • Review opportunities in Global health within the NHS
  • Explore how the sustainable development goals affect health and healthcare.
  • What can be done on a personal and systems level to achieve the SDGs.

Hypothermia practical

  • Understand the 1:10:1 rule of hypothermia.
  • Review signs, symptoms and pathophysiology of cold injury.
  • Explore the human factors involved in managing and treating hypothermia.
  • Experience how quickly a team member can get cold.
  • Appreciate how to optimise team dynamics and CRM when working in a stressful environment.

Mental health workshop

  • Gain practical tools in how to normalise mental health concepts.
  • Understanding your own needs, and that mental health preparedness is a skill for everyone.
  • Designing your own ‘Emotional Kit List’.
  • How to adapt these tools in our NHS practice and explore strategies to support each other.

Hyperthermia practical

  • Identify non-technical and CRM skills needed to successfully complete a team task.
  • Explore methods of communication and lateral thinking.
  • Understand the risk factors relating to heat illness.
  • Evaluate mechanisms of heat loss.
  • Discuss the different methods of management of heat illness.

Wellbeing

  • Reconnecting with our colleagues.
  • Laughing together over an evening meal.
  • Sharing experiences of our professional practice.
  • Supported discussions of how to move forwards.
  • Outdoor yoga, kayaking, wild swimming and hiking.

 

For more information & to book a place, please see brochure  SW-PGDIT-18-19th-September-Bracken-Tor-1.pdf