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Charles Darwin University has officially opened its new $30.8 million health teaching and training facility, which houses the newly established School of Medicine. With 2,000 students expected to flow through this year alone, the facility is expected to strengthen the Northern Territory's local workforce pipeline and help address ongoing health workforce shortages.

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00:01It looks like a real hospital, but this is actually a training ground.
00:07Equipped with a simulated emergency department, consult rooms and a 10-bed hospital ward
00:12for the Territory's future health professionals to practice in.
00:16We're going to have pretend patients either falling off a high building or giving birth around a campfire.
00:23They'll then be transported over by the paramedic students in the ambulance.
00:27Ready to welcome more than 2,000 students this year,
00:31the new centre offers a range of health degrees from paramedics to social work
00:36and CDU's new School of Medicine.
00:39Their course will be very specialised to the NT.
00:42So there's lots of unique medical challenges here in the Northern Territory.
00:46There's the remoteness of the Northern Territory and they will be prepared for that.
00:51From lifelike mannequins that simulate real health issues like heart attacks
00:57or trauma from a car accident to CPR, students will get to practice real-world,
01:03life-saving techniques in an emergency room situation.
01:07Students will also work with real clients throughout their studies,
01:11as well as medical actors for further practice.
01:15It gives them a little bit more of an insight of what it's like when they go out in the
01:19big world,
01:20when they graduate.
01:21Don't want students out there not knowing what they're doing.
01:24And this makes sure that they actually have some experience, have some skills,
01:27so they can go out and actually practice safely.
01:30The new facility hoped to address the Territory's critical workforce shortages.
01:35So we make this an exciting place, give them the right skills and people want to stay here.
01:40A new facility that could help change the future of the Territory's health.
01:45And this is where you review that, the Territory's health was no longer or not,
01:47but it would help you as a country 비er to keep moving on from a way.
01:48If you have a way, it would be something that you have to pay for.
01:48And you have to be a big, big window for the creation of the Territory's health industry.
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