Emergency Medicine Specialist - Fun Activities - Community and Health

Community and Health - EMERGENCY MEDICINE SPECIALIST

Inside a Hospital's Trauma Unit: Decision Time!

Middle

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding

Philosophy

Cooperative Learning Activity

Teacher

Students are to read and analyse an article from The Conversation. You will need to print out the table to be filled in the Word doc here.

Students

Process:

1. In groups of 3 - 4 students, you are to set up a Hospital Trauma Unit by taking on different roles for each scenario presented: Emergency Medicine Specialist is to be the lead in each scenario. There is to be a different EMS for each scenario.

As a group, you are to evaluate the following scenarios and put them in order of priority. As a group, you are to record your reasons for this order - however, the EMS has overall authority in each scenario and they are to suggest that their scenario is the most important.

Fill out this table. Word doc here.

Scenario	Priority Order	Reasons	Time Taken to assess

2. Start your clock. Read the following scenarios quickly. Assess what order they should be put in and Read provide reasons.

3. Stop the clock and record the time taken in the table. .

4. Compare your priority listing with another group. Did you have the same priorities and reasons?

5. Look at the statistics stated in the article from The Conversation 24 December 2018

What did you learn about Christmas holiday statistics? Give reasons. Analyse

Tiger Woods' injuries: Think, Pair, Share

Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Cooperative Learning Activity

1. You are to read the following article from The Conversation 25 February 2021 Read

2. Go back to the injuries and list them.

3. The statement says he had “comminuted open fractures affecting both the upper and lower portions of the tibia and fibula. The “upper and lower portions” suggests he has what is called a “segmental” fracture, where the bone is broken in two separate locations.”

You are to draw these injuries in one half of a blank page. Remember to label the bones and the injuries.

4. On the other side of the blank page, draw what the trauma doctors did to Tiger: "His tibia and fibula were “stabilized by inserting a rod into the tibia”.

5. What else did the trauma doctors do? Describe.

6. With a partner, talk through what you have done. Share your drawings.

Are they similar?

Bones
(Source: OrthoInfo)

7. List down 5 new words that you learnt in this article. Create a Crossword using these words and 10 others from the article. Use either of these two crossword puzzle creators below:

Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker

Crossword Puzzle

8. Exchange puzzles with your partner.

Create a Role Play to be converted into a modern Australian TV series

Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding

Philosophy

Cooperative Learning Activity

1. In groups of 3 - 4 students, you are to analyse the following TV show to decide which story your group will convert into a role play with the aim of extending it into a modern Australian TV series.

The Royal Melbourne Hospital shows their Emergency Department: this is a factual show.