About the Collaboration
Since 2021 staff from the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science has been working with colleagues from SolidarMed, a Swiss charity based in Zambia, to explore how Swansea expertise can support SolidarMed's work to strengthen health systems in the country and train local healthcare personnel.
In July 2023 a delegation from Swansea visited Zambia to meet with colleagues from SolidarMed, NGOs, universities and colleges and deliver training to nurses, doctors and midiwives from across Zambia.
Clinical Simulation Workshop
The team from Swansea delivered a three-day workshop on clinical simulation for nurses, doctors and midwives who teach students throughout Zambia.
Clinical simulation is an extremely valuable tool for educating students as it gives them experience in practicing crucial procedures without putting patients at risk, and the workshop drew on Swansea's expertise in both clinical simulation and Medical Education.
The workshop was in Kafue, an hour from the capital Lusaka, in a new centre for teaching clinical skills which is one of a series being built in Zambian hospitals by SolidarMed. These new teaching and learning facilities will improve the training that can be offered to health staff and expose students early to the realities of delivering health care in hospital spaces.
The clinical simulation training that the Swansea team provided will help attendees to design and implement simulation training and make the best possible use of these new facilities.
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