Clinical Skills & Simulation Centre Bendigo
The Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre (CSSC) in Bendigo is a unit of laboratory classrooms for teaching clinical skills readying students to take these new skills into the clinical setting. As students develop, classroom activities also focus on honing more subtle skills encompassing teamwork, clinical reasoning and decision making using high fidelity simulation exercises for patient based clinical scenarios.
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Teaching staff
CSSC lecturing staff are well experienced clinicians from both medicine and nursing offering education befitting a clinically applied profession.
 | Dr Cameron Knott MBBS (Hons); GDipClinUS; MClinEd; FCICM; FRACP Academic Lead: Senior Lecturer, 0.2 EFT Email: cameron.knott@monash.edu Cameron is a senior lecturer and the academic lead of the CSSC, supporting the clinical medical student program at Bendigo. Cameron works as an intensive care physician in intensive care units in Bendigo Health and the Austin Hospital, Heidelberg. He holds an honorary appointment with the University of Melbourne. Cameron holds a Master of Clinical Education with a thesis in clinical simulation faculty development. Cameron’s research interests centre around person-centred healthcare system redesign aimed at improved workplace interprofessional team performance and safe consumer-centred healthcare and improved system performance. He is also interested in the integration of digital health and collaborative data science in these areas. |
 | Ms Gabrielle Jones BN: RN; GCCritCare; GradDipClinTchg Lecturer, 0.4 EFT Email: gabrielle.jones@monash.edu Gabby has 12 years’ experience in emergency care and intensive Care. She currently works in intensive care at Bendigo health, and leads our Year 5D clinical curriculum for medical students. Gabby is currently studying her Masters in Clinical Education |
 | Ms Lynne Wanefalea BN: RN; MN(CritCare) Lecturer, 0.4 EFT Email: lynee.wanefalea@monash.edu Lynne is a Clinical Nurse Specialist with the Emergency Department of Bendigo Health. She has over 10 years’ experience in critical care and emergency care, and leads our Year 4C clinical curriculum for medical students. Lynne is a strong advocate for health care education in developing nations. Recently Lynne travelled with a DFAT funding group to the Pacific Islands volunteering her time to offer innovative methods of triaging casualties in these small nations. |
CSSC staff are supported by a multi-disciplined team of clinical expert sessional lecturers working within both the CSSC and various clinical settings.