What is the Endoscopy Simulator Induction
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) has funded 6 endoscopy simulators situated across training regions.
These provide endoscopy trainees, students, trainee nurse endoscopists and established endoscopists the opportunity to accelerate their early learning of endoscopy skills to allow an early transition to full patient procedures.
Learners can practice insertion and withdrawal as well as tip control and other basic skills and pathology recognition in a simulation environment.
Training time should be scheduled to allow supervised sessions during the working day until technical competence is reached to maximise the experience within clinical endoscopy sessions.
A number of simulators have software for bronchoscopy Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) as well as GI endoscopy, please check this at your local site.
Each simulator had a QR code attached that will take you directly to the TURAS learn page when it is scanned.
How to book a simulator
Before booking time on a simulator, you must review the induction video on how to use the Symbionix GI Mentor and GI Mentor Express. Click here to access the video
You must also complete the short quiz on using the GI Mentor and contact the relevant location. All this information is available by clicking this link
For more information contact nhsscotlandacademy@nhs.scot