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“We’re all about reducing that
UPILS at Araluen Primary White Coat Anxiety a lot of kids can
School recently got to be have about going to the doctor.
doctors and nurses as they “We’re encouraging healthy
Pcreated their own Teddy Bear eating and behaviour, but also the
Hospital. importance of having fun and relying
The event coincided with a visit on each other as a community to stay
from second-year medical students safe and to stay healthy.
from Monash University as part of a “Overall, our main goal is just to
one-week placement in Gippsland show the kids that there’s nothing
during May. to be afraid of when you go to the
According to teacher Emily Stone,
it was the Monash students who doctor, and there’s nothing to be
intimidated by when it comes to
contacted the school asking to make
a visit. healthy living.”
“We’ve had them here in the past Joining Ms D’Sa and her fellow
… pre-Covid, but they contacted us students was the Teddy Bear
and they asked if they could come Big Ted with Monash Health Rural Events Coordinator, Natania D’Sa at Hospital’s mascot, Big Ted, who was
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back, which was very nice,” Mrs Stone Araluen Primary School. Photo: Tom Parry y y warmly received by the children and
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said. received many hugs on the day.
“It gives (pupils) an opportunity to Such stations included Surgery student at Monash, and the Rural Monash University’s Year 2 Rural
learn about the things outside of the Station, where pupils learned about Events Coordinator for the Gippsland Placement Program aims to increase
school, especially things like hospitals region. students’ understanding and
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and doctors, which can be really scary different organs inside the body; knowledge of rural and regional
for little kids.” Asthma Station, which taught how to Ms D’Sa said the Monash students health systems, and the patients
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As part of the event, pupils in the help others with breathing difficulties; “love working with the kids”. embedded within these systems and
school’s junior unit rotated between and Plastering Station, where children “Teddy Bear Hospital is all about communities.
eight “stations” that explored healthy were invited to make a cast of their engaging the kids within our For some participants, it was their
eating habits and the work associated fingers. community, and we’re especially first exposure to life and health service
with health professionals. Natania D’Sa is a third-year medical excited to be able to do that within a delivery within a regional setting.
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