Mobile skills unit
About the project
A key objective for the Scottish Clinical Skills Strategy is to address the inequity of access to high quality multi-professional education across both geographical and professional boundaries. There was a particular challenge to deliver state of the art, simulation-based education to remote and rural areas of Scotland. Depending upon the definition used, up to one in five people in Scotland live in remote and rural areas.
Following a scoping exercise, NHS Education for Scotland agreed to fund the build of the unit and a two year pilot period to allow full evaluation of the educational potential for such a unit in the longer term and to determine the optimal use of the unit.
The unit provides the space, part-task trainers and state of the art mid-fidelity simulation equipment (including Child Crisis Manikin, SimMan and SimBaby) to allow a broad range of clinical skills education to be delivered.
The Mobile Clinical Skills unit was launched on Friday 21 November 2008 by Ms Shona Robison MSP, Minister for Public Health, during the Scottish Clinical Skills Alliance conference, and has been on the road since January 2009.
Over 600 Healthcare workers took part in education on the unit in the first six months, and every venue has requested a return visit as the opportunities available through the unit have been well received. An evaluation of the first six months is available to download or from the CS MEN Office.
For more information contact Sarah Race, Project Officer for the Mobile Unit on 01382 740220 or s.l.race@dundee.ac.uk
