Ten foundation year medicine students from the University of Galway trained with the volunteer crew at Galway RNLI Lifeboat Station last week.
The students got to experience how RNLI crews assess and manage casualty care in a very different environment from hospital-based care and follows a visit by Galway RNLI crew to the Clinical Simulation and Interprofessional Education Facility at the University's College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at the end of last year.
The visit was an opportunity for the students to see how their medical training will be used in the event of caring for casualties who are brought to shore by RNLI crew either as a result of an injury while on the water or having entered the water and was part of the Simulation and Medical Education module for the students which is designed to demonstrate learning in the community.
