Trauma Team Simulation Training (TTST)

Do you work as a member of a Trauma Team?  Would you like to put your knowledge into practice in a safe, controlled environment? Then come and immerse yourself in high fidelity, interprofessional trauma team simulation training.

Trauma Team Simulation Training (TTST) focusses on the principles of Crisis Resource Management and the technical and non-technical skills required to coordinate, utilise and apply all available resources to optimise patient safety and outcomes.

Prerequisites

• Minimum 6 month trauma/emergency experience
• Recommended that participants have attended formal trauma training within the last 4 years (EMST/ATLS (external site), APLS, or TNCC etc.).

Learning outcomes

• To utilise the principles of Crisis Resource Management in trauma to reduce the risk of critical incidents
• To demonstrate the correct technical and non-technical skills required to asses and manage a simulated trauma patient
• To demonstrate the key principles of effective team work within a interprofessional team whilst managing a simulated trauma patient.

Time

8.00am to 5.00pm

Venue

Simulation Centres – various metropolitan sites

Cost

Medical $795.00
Medical Non-WA Health employee $1,195.00

Nursing $555.00

Nursing non-WA Health employee $835.00

Paramedical $250.00

Applications

If you are interested in applying for TTST please complete the registration form (external site). If you require a hard copy of the application form please email on WATTEU@health.wa.gov.au.

Once offers have been accepted,cancellation policy applies. 

2024 course calendar 

View the 2024 TTST course calendar (PDF 128KB).

2025 course calendar 

Course accreditation

Medical

Australian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) PDP program (external site): The Trauma Team Simulation Training (TTST) course is approved for 8 ACEM CPD hours.

Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (external site): The Trauma Team Simulation Training (TTST) course is accredited for a total of 10 PDP hours - 5 educational activity, 4 performance review and 1 additional CPD requirements.

The Trauma Team Simulation Training (TTST) course is a CPD approved activity under the RACGP CPD Program (external site) for 8.5 hours – 4.0 educational activities and 4.5 reviewing performance.

   

 

More information

Western Australian Trauma Training and Education Unit (WATTEU)

Send an email Address: 
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
3rd floor, A Block
Verdun Street
Nedlands WA 6009