Paramedic students will contend with dramatised mass trauma on the library lawn at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Wednesday 21 and Friday 23 September as part of their studies. Mr Brian Haskins, lecturer at the School of Biomedical Sciences at CSU in Bathurst, said, “The simulation will run for one hour, five times on Wednesday and four times on Friday, in a cordoned off area in front of the library to give students enrolled in the Bachelor of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) a taste of what they might later encounter on-the-job. The staged scenario is that a tractor and trailer from Charles Sturt University’s Division of Facilities Management has gone out of control and hit a number of students. There will be 10 patients to treat and 10 treating paramedics from the Clinical Skills 2 subject. The two main objectives of the scenario are to expose the students to a mass casualty incident, and to put them under some real pressure by having onlookers, including media, observing their assessment and treatment skills.” The School will also video each simulation session in full for later review by the students.