GAPS: A safe place for clinical educators to prepare and train St George's staff. There are a number of training initiatives taking place both in clinical areas and our simulation centre to help to support the confidence and skills of staff during this challenging time
ST GEORGE’S ADVANCED PATIENT SIMULATION & SKILLS CENTRE (GAPS)
GAPS is an inter-professional training facility at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London. We use simulation and other educational tools and techniques to help healthcare teams achieve their full potential. Our centre includes two full-immersion high-fidelity simulation suits, a fully-equipped skills lab, part-task trainers and a post-graduate dental and micro-surgery unit. We... Continue Reading →
Clinical Skills Training @ GAPS
St George's Advanced Patient Simulation & Skills Centre, have two decades worth of skills training as contributors and developers of some of the first surgical skills training programmes in the world. Currently hosting the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) in the centre, the opportunities to recieve state of the art service at your place setting... Continue Reading →
Simulation Training @ GAPS
GAPS, Technology Enhanced Teaching & Learning Centre present a huge catalogue of Simulation based training opportunities for St George's staff, regional training and participants from all over the world. St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is the home of GAPS' state of the art facilities and a team with decades of Healthcare & education... Continue Reading →
Welcome!
Welcome to this app/website that has been set up to help you through the next few weeks of this COVID-19 situation. This section of the website is set up to enable to ask questions or send feedback as we are trying to improve the training and resources available to you. You can also share how... Continue Reading →
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CAMhELS
Pioneering Inter-professional simulation at the interface of In 2017 a series of commissioned courses (by Health Education England (South London)) was designed to meet the challenges and needs of staff across St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation trust in caring for cancer and end of life patients with mental health co-morbidity. Supporting staff working... Continue Reading →
Cardiac Advanced Life Support (CALS)
This is a two day inter-professional course for members of cardiac surgery and critical care teams. This course is delivered in our UK leading simulation centre, in London, using advanced technology to enhance learning. The course is appropriate for all levels of practitioners and physicians associated with Cardiac Surgery including Operating Department Practitioners (ODP), Anaesthetic... Continue Reading →
Advanced Trauma Life Support & ATNC
ATLS® is a multidisciplinary course enabling a standardised language of trauma care across the specialties. The aim of The ATLS® is to teach a simple systematic approach to the management of trauma patients through interactive tutorials, skills teaching and simulated patient management scenarios. Attendance at the course also exposes the candidate to a network of... Continue Reading →
Journal Club 21st September 2pm GAPS Centre
"A forum to discuss Safety, Systems change and Learning research" Journal Club 21st September 2pm GAPS Centre Pannick (2017) Translating concerns into actions BMJ-2
Bringing the theatre back to the operating theatre
“The technology is excellent; the GAPS team professionally film the procedures from different angles and are able to zoom in and focus to degrees I had thought were not possible. Arguably, they provide a better global view of the operation than would be possible while scrubbed in on a case!” Full Article HERE Published: 24... Continue Reading →