Useful Resources & Information

The following apps, website and independent learning area are recommended to students to further enhance their learning:

The Clinical Skills E-book is an interactive website that contains a wealth of information covering many aspects of clinical skills and examinations. The content includes easy to follow step-by-step instruction guides on procedural skills as well as video guides. The website is well used by students and a particularly useful revision resource.

Click here to view the Clinical Skills eBook

PebblePad is used by some courses to enable students to document their progress in their clinical skills and activities.

Get the PebblePad app via the App store for iOS and via Google Play for Android.

RRAPID supports the skills and knowledge that are taught throughout the 5 years of the spiral RRAPID curriculum. RRAPID (which stands for Recognising and Responding to Acute Patient Illness and Deterioration) is delivered as a series of simulation sessions that covers the practical approach to assessing managing acutely unwell patients.

For more information please visit the RRAPID website

The Clinical Skills section of Minerva hosts a wealth of information and additional resources available to the students to access.  This includes teaching powerpoints and e-learning activities as well as the online teaching facility known as Blackboard Collaborate which is used to delivered online clinical skills sessions.

The ILA, based at the LGI Clinical Skills Education Centre, is a well-used teaching space designed to be a flexible resource and an additional educational provision.  The space is equipped with all the manikins and equipment that students require to revise and refresh on any skills they have learnt.  The space is bookable by the students nearly every day of the working week (except for exceptional circumstances such as when the centre is hosting OSCE exams) It can be booked either online or via the team directly and where capacity allows, students may also request additional facilitation and support by an educator during their session in the ILA.