A trio of young doctors from Dunedin will be plunged into a life-or-death situation in Frankton on February 22.
Medical students Estee Parsons, Ashton Ellison and Meagan Mcleod, all aged in their mid-20s and in their fifth year of study at the University of Otago, will be tested in a road accident scenario.
They will receive a simulated emergency call at 7pm and rush to a vacant area past the Remarkables Park Town Centre in a St John Wakatipu ambulance.
The students, ambulance officers, Frankton firefighters and representatives from the Wakatipu Medical Centre will find four Wakatipu actors wearing make-up inside a car, which, in the scenario, has crashed into a tree.
The injuries of the "patients" would range from moderate to serious.
They would have different priorities in requirements of care which the students would need to identify under pressure.
Similar accident scenarios will be run in Balclutha, Greymouth, Blenheim, Masterton and Dannevirke.
