STUDENT EVENT: Teddy Bear Hospital Training Evening

All UWA students are welcome to join us! This program is ideal for students wishing to pursue a career in the medical field.

Our goals: 1. Helping to alleviate the fear of doctors in young children through role play, 2. Promoting healthy lifestyle messages to young children, 3. Providing opportunities for medical students to develop communication skills and an understanding of children.

Teddy bear hospital is a world-wide program, that provides primary school students with the opportunity to interact with young doctors.

The day involves primary students bringing their own teddy bears (patients), and university students acting as their doctors. Multiple stations will be set up and through these stations, the children will experience the atmosphere of a hospital by going to the nurses station, having a doctors appointment and even trying an x-ray machine!

The program is a unique and interactive way to for children to experience the atmosphere at a hospital without being patients themselves.

This training evening will equip you to come on a TBH visit with us. This year, Dr. Fiona Wood will also be attending to give us a small talk! Please RSVP your attendance on the following website by clicking the event name and entering your details.

http://www.interhealth.org.au/index.php?option=com_seminar&Itemid=276