Incredible simulation footage from Dara Byrne & team. Simulation plays such a vital role in clinical skills development, teamwork, building communication skills & working with other professions. Providing a safe space to try, sometimes fail but always learn from & try again.

**TONIGHT 7.30pm** The UCDVH Webinar Series, Wednesday 30 August at 7:30pm - Marijke Beltman will present on controlling reproduction in dogs, cats and ferrets. Register here: tinyurl.com/45e3sah2

**FREE Irish Veterinary Behaviour Association webinar 8pm tonight** The IVBA experts will provide a wonderful introduction to this under-served topic enhancing our understanding of human-animal interactions & pet care for children. Email [email protected] to secure your spot.

Delighted to welcome our 1st year students into the UCD Clinical Skills Centre for a taster session. 1st year veterinary nurses yesterday & some 1st year veterinary medicine students this afternoon. Big thanks to our volunteer final years for helping out & demonstrating their amazing skills. 👏👏

Happy Veterinary Nurse Day 👏👏

The next FREE webinar from the Irish Veterinary Behaviour Association is next Monday 4th Dec at 8pm. Register at [email protected] #humanbehaviour #postcovid #animalwelfare

On the moooooove as Nora gets ready for VetEd2024 starting tomorrow UCD School of Veterinary Medicine 🐮🐮

This is what happens when you leave the UCD Clinical Skills Centre door open!! Baaabara the sheep & Nora the cow are very excited for VetEd2024 starting today. Keep an eye out for Baaabara & Nora & be sure to get your UCD School of Veterinary Medicine selfie!! 🐮🐑

Our Interprofessional Education Workshop is ready to go VetEd2024. Looking forward to welcoming delegates from all over the world.

And that's a wrap for VetEd2024 - all the UCD Clinical Skills Centre gang returned home!! 🐑🐮🐶 What a wonderful few days of learning and meeting lots of amazing educators from all over the world. Really looking forward to VetEd 2025 in Bristol.

Very excited for this year's InVeST 2024 in University of Surrey.

Wishing our final year veterinary nursing students all the very best with their OSCEs this week. Here's a little festive video the team made to wish them well. 🎄🎄 youtu.be/jVfGpiapCbc

Good morning from the UCD Clinical Skills Centre. Great to see all our students back yesterday. Busy day ahead with final year ICU nurse assessment, then our MVB3/GE2 vets are in starting their clinical skills with some patient & surgeon prep. Plus some suture pads to finish making!! ❤️

Well done to our stage 3 veterinary nurses working through the RECOVER Initiative Advanced Life Support algorithm yesterday following on from their Basic Life Support last week. They showed strong teamwork, leadership & communication. Very impressive 👏👏

Last Clinical Skills 1 Practical 2 sessions today with MVB3/GE2 - 2 handed tie, instrument tie, Modified Millers ligature, surgical instrumentation identification, dexterity box, scalpel blade loading & unloading. Suture pads are ready - we begin suturing next week!! 😀

Suture class this morning & after lunch for our MVB3/GE2 vet students as we wrap up practical 3 & get ready for practical 4 starting next week. #veterinary #clinicalskills #veterinarymedicine #simulationteaching

All set for this morning's session. Stage 2 Veterinary nurses run through circulating & scrubbed nursing roles this morning.

The last practical for our MVB3/GE2 module on introduction to surgical & medical clinical skills - small & large animal injection techniques, i/v catheter placement & paw bandage. 🐶🐱🐮🐴 #clinicalskills #veterinarymedicine #simulationteaching

Our vet OSCEs start tomorrow - best of luck from all the skills team!! Well done on all your hard work so far, we're all very proud of you. 🐶🐱🐮🐴🩺

Busy getting ready for our Model Making Workshop tomorrow at the Irish Association for Simulation (IAS) Symposium hosted in UCD. This is the first time veterinary have been involved, very exciting..... 😀🐶🐷🐑🐱🐮 #simulationteaching #iassymposium #healthcare