First-year paramedic students will come to grips with simulated injured passengers trapped in a mangled vehicle when they join with the State Emergency Service (SES) Bathurst Unit in a joint extrication exercise at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Thursday 6 October. Mr Brian Haskins, lecturer at the School of Biomedical Sciences at CSU in Bathurst, said, “As part of the Clinical Studies 2 course for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) we will work with the local SES to free three simulated patients from the staged wreckage using the ‘jaws of life’ cutting equipment. There will be eight treating paramedics from first-year and possibly some intensive care paramedics from second and third-years for this exercise, with all the other students observing. Exercises like this one are vital to provide our students with ‘real working life’ experiences.” Unlike the recent trauma simulation exercises on campus, this scenario will only run once.