Paramedic students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Port Macquarie will join medical students from University of NSW (UNSW) on Thursday, 14 August to treat patients during four separate simulated emergency exercises. The students will be treating several patients at emergency scenes at Rotary House on Wrights Road in Port Macquarie from 9:30am to 3pm. The students will then transport the patients in the CSU ambulance to the simulated emergency department at the UNSW Rural Clinical School. Senior Lecturer of Paramedicine at CSU in Port Macquarie Mr Joe Acker said, "The exercises aim to provide a realistic situation to challenge the paramedic and medical students to make difficult decisions in high pressure, complex environments. We also want to give them an opportunity to hone their inter professional and communications skills to enhance the ability to work in multi-disciplinary environments when they graduate." The UNSW's Simulation Educator Ms Donna Hughes said, "This joint simulation exercise with Charles Sturt University gives the medical students an opportunity to participate in and to better understand the pre-hospital phase of the patient journey. The simulations also give the paramedic students an authentic opportunity to practice the clinical handover of a patient in the emergency department - an important skill to master."