Outdoor resilience training for students

MAGDALEN Green in Dundee has been turned into a major incident zone as part of annual resilience training for students.

Dundee University students are being asked to react to the scenario that there has been an earthquake and they must act fast to help those in need.

More than 180 students are providing first aid and specialist care to a team of volunteers with the help of the 225 Medical Regiment Scotland during exercises at Magdalen Green and Beveridge Park in Kirkcaldy.

The students are being given a series of tasks designed to further develop their team working, leadership and technical skills.

Organiser Tom McConnachie, a lecturer at the university’s school of nursing and health sciences, said: “Teamwork, communication, decision-making and leadership are core attributes necessary in newly qualified nurses. Students also have to develop both physical and emotional resilience to face the challenge of working within busy clinical environments.

“We are grateful to the 225 Medical Regiment and our volunteers for allowing us to take part in an exercise of this scale.”

The Dundee students have taken over Magdalen Green until tomorrow and then again next Monday. Kirkcaldy students will be in Beveridge Park on August 29 and August 30.