Visit Royal Preston Hospital

This visit took place on 04/03/2009 arranged by Rotarian Howard Jackson, we had a tour around the hospital. The first place that we visited was the Rosemere Cancer Foundation. The foundation in midst of raising fund to upgrade the existing radiotherapy medical equipment. President Peter representing the Rotary Club Of Preston Amounderness took this oppurtunity to donate to the cancer foundation. It was a eye opener for the team.

The next visit was to the Education Center of Lancashire teaching hospital. We were invited into the simulation room where there are manikins. There manikins are from Medical Education Technologies incorporated (METI) and the Laerdal SimMan and Sim Baby cover an age range from a 3 month old infant, and 7 year old child to a 80kg adult. These manikins can be programmed to respond just like a human for medical related scenarios. The training helps the undergraduate students in experiencing real medical situation except that they are able to make mistake on this manikins.