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We have a vacancy for a Senior Technician in our brand new state-of-the-art Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre at QMC in Nottingham. Following a £2.5m investment, this is a unique opportunity to work in the first centre of its kind in the UK to combine advanced patient simulation and clinical skills training.

You will be responsible for leading the technical aspects of supporting training activity within the centre. Based primarily in the simulator area, you will also line manage a Technician who will work in the clinical skills area.

Please see our web page (under Scientific & Technical listing) for full details of this post, including a job description, person specification, organisation chart and information about the centre and its facilities.

For an informal discussion please contact (excluding 22 August – 1 September 2003) Giulia Miles, Project Development Manager on 0115 9249924 ext 35808 or Penny Huggard, Manager of Postgraduate Education on 0115 9709729.

The closing date for applications is midday on Friday 12 September 2003.

Application forms are available from the Department of Human Resource Management on tel 0115 9709284, quoting job reference 421/03

Hi Mark

Just read this with interest, you claim that this is the first centre of it's kind in the country. I would disagree with you there.

Bristol have had a Medical Simulation Centre since 2000 in which they do training that your centre proposes. They also conduct extensive research to improve the simulations even further using the a METI simulator I believe. The Physicist there Dr Mark Tooley is well published in this area, in deed his group had a presentation at this years IPEM conference.

St George's also has an established Skills centre with simulation room, they also use a METI simulator. In fact a lot of teaching Trusts have such facilities.

I think the first may have been at the University of Hertfordshire, again they provide training and research to make simulations more realistic. This centre has been running since 1995 I believe, this group is also well published on this area. I'm not sure what simulator they use, I think it may be built in house to suit there research interests.