Principles

Resus Drills are for situations which happen quickly, are not common, and need a time-critical response.

They need practice – so when the time comes, you’ve already had the dress rehearsal.

This is not a ‘simulation’.

Drills are traditionally for practising teamwork and speed.

Each scenario will run for 5 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of feedback and reflection. The same scenario is then run again for another 5 minutes.

Each Resus Drill is designed to run no longer that 15 minutes in total.

Assurances

Learning, NOT assessment: the drill is for practice and for learning. We’re concentrating on how fast you can think, and how well you work as a team.

Safe zone: learning and mistakes are shared here, not any further.

5-min reflection rules: please be constructive in the debrief. We’re all here to learn. These are deliberately tough scenarios. That’s the whole point of a drill.

Pretend it is real: we’ll try to make the drill realistic, but this is not meant to be a high-fidelity simulation. Even though it’s not real, we need you to help us by acting as you would in real life in your normal role. We will try to run it in real time.

Take-away pack: there is some information that you can take away for further learning. We recommend “spaced repetition” for the best learning, i.e…