Charles Sturt University's Bathurst campus is hosting paramedicine students from all over the state this week, for a special, intensive residential school that will help alleviate the coronavirus pandemic's impact.
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About 40 third-year paramedicine students will be on hand to practice the hands-on skills and patient assessment exercises they weren't able to complete due to the COVID-19 restrictions put in place last year, ensuring they still learn those skills in-person.
Students from regional NSW, including the Central West, along with Sydney and the Blue Mountains will on be hand.
This 'intensive' is a supplementary catch-up week that has been developed to replace the practical lessons ... the students were unable to attend due to COVID-19 restrictions last year.
- Lecturer in paramedicine Georgina Pickering
"This 'intensive' is a supplementary catch-up week that has been developed to replace the practical lessons that are normally a part of this subject which the students were unable to attend due to COVID-19 restrictions last year," Lecturer in paramedicine Georgina Pickering explained.
"It's actually a second-year subject for students who will be in their third year when they come back in session one of 2021.
"The intensive provides students with the opportunity to practice the skills and patient assessment that they will need for the clinical assessment they are required to pass as part of the overall subject."
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All the commencing paramedicine courses at CSU are full, with 130 enrolments on-campus at Bathurst, 90 at Port Macquarie and 80 studying online.
"Paramedicine is a vital health profession that serves the whole community and the COVID-19 pandemic has made people more aware of this than ever," Paramedicine course director Lyle Brewster said.
"Charles Sturt University is a leading provider of paramedicine education and training, and our students in the Bachelor of Paramedicine recognise this as they seek a practical and fulfilling professional career."
The residential school is one of several that are held at Charles Sturt campuses every year for as many as 360 subjects in a range of disciplines including law, environmental sciences, nursing, paramedicine, and exercise science.
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