In groups of around eight, the students got to participate at four different skill stations. These included: airway, breathing, circulation and disability. 

At each station the students were guided by a local doctor who could help them when needed. The students also underwent scenarios, having to work out what was wrong and how to treat each patient. 

Students Elodie Honore and Harry Jude both had high praise for the academic program they were going through. 

“These are skills that we will have wherever our career takes us,” Mr Jude said. 

Miss Honore spoke of the importance of learning these trauma skills early in their degree. 

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“Better to learn these skills now then when we start our internship and don’t know what to do,” she said. 

The students spoke about how getting immersed in the scenarios has helped them to grow as medical practitioners. 

“It’s really good to spend a week doing this, because we are able to put the lectures into practise,” she said. 

With students coming interstate to participate in the trauma workshops, Mr Jude said Lithgow has been reaping the benefits. 

“It is also great tourism for Lithgow, because we can show off our town to students who have never been to a rural area before,” he said.