Education centres — Waikato

The Waikato Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre (CSSC) is a centre of excellence for all clinical and surgical skills-based learning.

The CSSC is a purpose-built facility which supports the resuscitation, skills and simulation training needs of our teams within Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato and the Te Manawa Taki region. The CSSC also offers undergraduate and postgraduate training, from basic level to sophisticated advanced specialist training.

The centre is available for all groups including:

• nursing
• medical
• surgical
• allied health
• general practice
• paramedical
• other community health groups.

It has comprehensive audiovisual links to surgical theatres and adjacent teaching rooms, plus a wide range of skills and simulation training equipment.

Multidisciplinary and inter-departmental skills-based workshops are encouraged by use of simulated scenarios to improve teamwork, leadership and decision making.

The centre can be used by any health professional or allied group for any skills-based workshops, seminars or conferences.

For any room or equipment hire requests:

• email: skillscentre@waikatodhb.health.nz

Contact

Courtney Petersen
Manager Waikato Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre
Courtney.Petersen@WaikatoDHB.Health.NZ

Resuscitation training inquiries
SkillsCentre@WaikatoDHB.Health.NZ

Waikato Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre
Bryant Education Centre
Waikato Hospital Campus
Private Bag 3200
Hamilton 3240
New Zealand
Phone: 07 839 8750 (extension 95109)

Facilities

View a 360-degree virtual tour of our training facility:

Waikato Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre 360-degree virtual tour — Articulate (external link)

Simulation training, including:

• emergency resuscitation
• anaesthetics simulation
• cath lab emergency simulation course (REACT)
• stabilisation
• advanced cardiac life support
• trauma management
• newborn and paediatric life support
• post-cardiotomy resuscitation (CALS)
• teamwork/leadership/communication
• scenario and debriefing sessions.

Surgical skills workshops, including:

• vascular surgery
• minor plastic surgery
• laparoscopy
• suturing
• ophthalmology
• ENT
• endovascular
• cardiothoracic surgery
• obstetrics and gynaecology
• intravenous cannulation
• wide range of procedural skills
• specialist niche courses.

Sponsors

The Waikato Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre acknowledges the generous support of our sponsors.

Established with the help of:

• Cancer Society Waikato-BOP
• Donny Trust
• Souter Trust
• Waikato Heart Trust
• Anglesea Braemar Hospital Ltd
• Department of Anaesthetics, Waikato Hospital
• Respiratory Research Trust, Waikato Hospital
• Medical Investments
• D V Bryant Trust
• Cardiology Charitable Trust
• Norah Howell Trust
• E B Firth Trust
• Rotary District 9930
• Johnson & Johnson Medical (NZ)
• MedXus
• Medipak Surgical NZ Ltd-Storz
• Obex Medical Ltd
• Laerdal NZ Ltd
• Olympus NZ Ltd
• Mitsubishi Electrical
• Carl Zeiss NZ Ltd
• Cass Medical
• staff and friends of the Waikato Hospital and Waikato Clinical School.

The Institute of Healthy Ageing is a collaborative venture between Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato, the University of Auckland and the University of Waikato, and was launched in 2013. Its purpose is to facilitate the sharing of research and clinical expertise, and the development of research initiatives in the field of ageing, older people's health and rehabilitation.

Patron

Sir Peter Gluckman

Location

Institute of Healthy Ageing
Older Persons and Rehabilitation Building
Waikato Hospital
Pembroke Street
Hamilton 3204

Contact

Phone: 07 839 8899
Email: institute@waikatodhb.health.nz

Focus of work

The focus of the work of the Institute of Health Ageing is:

• translational and applied research
• assisting the Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, primary care and NGO sectors to develop and implement services that meet the needs of people at all ages, including older people and rehabilitation services
• engaging people with increasing needs as they age and their whānau in developing support programmes
• providing a conduit for academic and clinical leadership in relevant research and scholarship, teaching and learning and innovation
• using research to grow competent service professionals
• providing educational resources for people ageing with increasing comorbidities and possibly disabilities, and those involved in their care
• taking a collaborative approach toward research and consultancy
• encouraging coordination between primary and secondary care, community and residential services
• providing a mechanism by which productive links can be fostered between clinicians and academics in regard to clinical care, research, policy and education
• supporting the development of research skills for Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato staff and the University of Auckland
• providing leadership in the critical examination of current trends and evidence-based practice in rehabilitation and older person care, and the implications for research, education and practice for both Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato and the universities.

Research deliverables

The research deliverables of the Institute of Healthy Ageing are:

• identification of service delivery and quality issues that would benefit from research
• identification of health professionals that would increase their research, management and service delivery expertise through involvement in research projects
• a conduit for ensuring that research projects deliver an ever increasing evidence base for improved care
• development of a culture of research and innovation within Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato
• the provision of a supportive environment for those who undertake research, including those undertaking Masters and PhD theses.
• collaboration with local universities, technical institutes and other regional centres.

Governance group

Graham Guy
Operations Director, Medicine and OPR
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato

Sue Hayward 
Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato

Matthew Parsons (Secretary) 
Clinical Chair in Geronotology
University of Waikato

Emeritus Professor Dame Peggy Koopman-Boyden
Community

Pippa Mahood
Community

Professor Ross Lawrenson (Chair)
Professor of Population Health (and Population Health Advisor to Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato)
University of Waikato

Jan Adams
Director of Nursing
Midlands Primary Care Network

Michael Cameron
Associate Professor, Economics
University of Waikato 

The Nursing and Midwifery Professional Development Unit (PDU) provides education and development activity that:

• values our staff
• improves patient experience
• applies best practise
• builds effective clinical decision making
• sustains quality care.

The PDU team coordinate and initiate professional development, education and learning opportunities for midwives, nurses and healthcare assistants (HCAs), psychiatric assistants and supports the certification programme for hospital attendants.

Information about programmes and courses for nurses

Information about programmes and courses for midwives

Key personnel

Cheryl Atherfold
Associate Director of Nursing: Professional Development

The Te Manawa Taki | Midland Trauma System puts the needs of the patient first. It is a network of specialised, clinical personnel committed to ensuring application of best practice in trauma care across the Te Manawa Taki | Midland region.

Clinical staff members perform clinical risk assessment and mitigation, collect trauma data, and facilitate local trauma committees to enable quality improvement initiatives. The hub group based at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato manages the regional database, develops and manages clinical guidelines and transfer protocols, identifies and actions system change, and supports the activities of Te Manawa Taki | Midland Trauma System clinicians and the Te Manawa Taki | Midland Trauma Research Centre.

Te Manawa Taki | Midland Trauma System members contribute to national and international bodies engaged in trauma quality improvement and resource planning.

Te Manawa Taki Trauma System (external link)

The Waikato Clinical Campus is an academic division of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at University of Auckland and provides clinical teaching and research for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and allied health science students.

The main purpose of the campus is to provide an outstanding environment in which medical students can undergo their clinical training.

Medical and Health Sciences — University of Auckland (external link)

Undergraduate study

For most of the academic year there are 160 undergraduate medical students on campus. Teaching is provided by clinical academics in all the main specialties.

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato also hosts a number of overseas elective students. Placements are arranged through the Waikato Clinical Campus.

For more information:

• email Raewyn Wooderson, Campus Manager: raewyn.wooderson@waikatodhb.health.nz

Postgraduate study

University of Auckland offers postgraduate programmes for doctors, nurses and other health professionals including opportunities to pursue Post Graduate Certificates and Diplomas, Masters, MD or PhD qualifications.

Postgraduate opportunities for nurses with University of Auckland are also available. These include Health Sciences in Advanced Nursing.

Undergraduate study — University of Auckland (external link)

Postgraduate Certificate in Health Sciences in Advanced Nursing — University of Auckland (external link)

Research

The Waikato Clinical Campus is involved in clinical research and there are professorial appointments in:

• medicine
• anaesthetics
• psychiatry.

Many departments have active research programmes.

Our research — University of Auckland (external link)

The Waikato Medical Research Foundation is a charitable foundation established in 1986 to promote, encourage and sustain medical research in the Waikato region. It welcomes donations and applications for research funding.

The foundation has supported research projects including studies of:

• leukaemia
• stroke
• diabetes
• head injury therapy
• medically useful natural products
• antibacterial properties of human breast milk and honey
• asthma
• breast cancer
• coping with disability.

Waikato Medical Research Foundation (external link)

Waikato Postgraduate Medicine Inc (WPGMI) is an incorporated society run by medical practitioners for medical practitioners. It is a registered provider of continuing medical education and programmes are endorsed with CME accreditation, when appropriate.

Any medical graduate may become a member of the society. There are approximately 500 members including general practitioners and Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato medical staff. 

WPGMI administration organises, manages and runs programmes, seminars and workshops. Most of these events are held at the Bryant Education Centre at Waikato Hospital. 

The programme includes:

• weekly Waikato Hospital Grand Round forum for presentations by and of interest to clinicians
• twice-monthly evening CME seminars for GPs and hospital medical staff
• Acute Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) courses for GPs and registered nurses.

A record of session attendances is kept and WPGMI administration keeps track of CME / MOPs (maintenance of professional standards) for members. Certificates are issued on request detailing the credits earned and list of seminars(s) attended. For GP members, CME/MOPs credits are also recorded directly on-line to the Royal NZ College of GPs (for those who are members of RNZCGP).

Contact

Waikato Postgraduate Medicine Inc.
Bryant Education Centre, Wilson Building
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato 
Pembroke Street
Private Bag 3200
Hamilton 3240

Phone: 07 839 8891
Fax: 07 839 8825
Email: sally.costello@waikatodhb.health.nz

Waikato Hospital Grand Round

Grand Rounds are held every Thursday from 12:30pm to 1:30pm. A light lunch is available from 12pm for those attending. 

This programme has traditionally been a continuing medical education forum for local and visiting speakers from a range of disciplines, and an opportunity for junior and senior hospital medical staff to present on behalf of their departments. 

The Grand Round programme is always subject to change in order to accommodate speaker requirements, and to utilise opportunities of visiting guest speakers.

Grand Round is transmitted direct to Thame Hospitals, Tokoroa Hospital, Te Kuiti Hospital and Taumarunui Hospital, and is recorded for Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato staff.

Thursday evening CME seminars

CME seminars are held approximately twice a month, from 6pm to 9pm. Light food and refreshments are provided.

Each session programme is advertised in advance to confirm details, and pre-registration is required.

The session content is suitable for:

• junior doctors
• trainee interns
• consultants
• general practitioners.

Practice nurses and other allied health professionals may also attend if the content is appropriate and invite is extended to them.  

To be kept up to date with all programme details:

• email: sally.costello@waikatodhb.health.nz

Request to become a member of Waikato Postgraduate Medicine and be on the database to receive updated information.

ACLS core skills courses

These courses are delivered by:

• qualified and experienced NZRC instructors who are practicing medical
• paramedical and nursing staff from Waikato Hospital
• the Waikato Skills and Simulation Centre.

For GPs requiring CME accreditation for AVE and MOPS, these courses are endorsed for 8 CME credits. They are non-assessed and meet the RNZCGP 3-yearly refresher requirements for GPs.

Courses start at 5pm and finish at 10pm. Pre-registration is required, as course numbers are limited.

To request course details and dates:

• email: sally.costello@waikatodhb.health.nz

To request details of the ACLS core advanced courses, which are fully assessed:

• email: rob.sinclair@waikatodhb.health.nz

These courses are not available for non-medical personnel.

Saturday CMS workshop sessions for GPs

Saturday workshop sessions are held as and when required at:

Waikato Clinical Skills Centre
Peter Rothwell Building (lower ground of the Bryant Education Centre)
Waikato Hospital

These will be advertised through the Waikato Postgraduate Medicine membership database as and when available, outlining the skills or features to be covered within the workshop.