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Trauma RiSC

The Trauma Rural Interprofessional Simulation Course (RiSC) is a course run by the Rural Postgraduate Programme designed specifically for rural hospital teams in New Zealand. It is an immersive three-day course which will focus on emergency and trauma care using highly realistic skills and simulations.

We believe that it takes a team to deliver high-quality trauma care. We are inviting rural hospital teams of doctors and nurses to join the course and learn the clinical skills and practice the teamwork that it takes to make the right things happen.

A team will consist of five members: Two or three doctors and two or three nurses who normally work together in clinical practice. A total of four teams from around New Zealand will meet and collaborate to learn new skills and procedures. Smaller centres unable to generate a full team are invited to send individuals to join one New Zealand-wide combined team.

Course content

  • Pre-course online content for study
  • Core trauma skills such as IV and IO access and splinting techniques
  • Updates in head and spine injury management
  • Highly realistic simulation stations with professional debrief
  • Rural airway management including team RSI practice
  • Rural human factors, teamwork, and communication
  • Procedural sedation workshop
  • NZ rural hospital networking and collaboration

Dates

2027: Trauma RiSC will be held from 10–12 May.

Nurses performing intubation on medical manikin.

Participants performing intubation on medical manikin during simulation course.

Medical RiSC

Medical RiSC is a course run by the University of Otago Rural Postgraduate Programme designed specifically for interprofessional rural hospital teams in New Zealand. It is an immersive 3 day course that focuses on emergency medical care using highly realistic skills simulations and workshops.

We are inviting Rural Hospital Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics and Rural GPs to attend and extend their clinical knowledge and skills for medical emergency management.

Course content

  • Rural airway management
  • Managing the rural deteriorating patient
  • Respiratory failure and ventilation
  • Unwell cardiac patient
  • Cardioversion and electrical pacing workshops
  • Medical emergencies
  • Management of shock including inotropes/vasopressors
  • Thrombolysis
  • Interpreting ECGs and ABGs
  • Rural human factors, teamwork and communication
  • NZ rural hospital networking and collaboration

Dates

2026: Medical RiSC will be held from 19–21 October. 
2027: Medical RiSC will be held from 11–13 October.

Cost

  • Medical Professionals with CME allowance: TBC
  • General Practitioner or Nurse Practicitioner: TBC
  • Registered Nurse: TBC

We encourage you to come as an inter-professional team from your workplace if possible, however we also warmly welcome individual applicants.

Accreditation

RNZCGP has approved RiSC for CME MOPD points.

DRHMNZ has approved RiSC to be recognized as a Tier 1 resuscitation course for Fellows of Rural Hospital Medicine.

Location

Rural Health Academic Centre, Ashburton Hospital

Registration

To register, please complete the RiSc Application Form (one for each team) and return them to the organiser via email at the contact email address below.

RiSC Application Form (DOCX)

Cancellation, postponement and transfer policy

If you are unable to attend the course for which you have registered, the following cancellation terms apply:

  • Cancellation more than two months before the course: A full refund will be provided.
  • Cancellation within two months of the course: No refund will be provided.

Transfers and postponements

At the University's discretion, a participant who is unable to attend their booked course may be permitted to transfer their registration to a later course. Any transfer or postponement is at the University's discretion and is subject to availability. The University may limit the number of times a registration can be transferred.

A transfer or postponement does not constitute cancellation of the original registration or the creation of a new registration for the purposes of this cancellation policy.

If a registration is transferred or postponed after the applicable cancellation deadline has passed, the registration remains subject to the cancellation terms that applied to the original course date. The transfer or postponement does not create a new cancellation period or reinstate any entitlement to a refund.

For example, if a participant becomes ineligible for a refund because they are within two months of their booked course, but the University agrees to transfer them to a course six months later, the registration remains non-refundable if they subsequently decide not to attend the later course.

Contact

For general enquiries, please contact:

Tracey Reid
Email tracey.reid@otago.ac.nz

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