10/12/2025
🚨 SIMWARS HEAT A RECAP! 🚨
Last weekend, PHCEMS x SCRUBS hosted Heat One of the QUB SimWars selection process — a morning of high-fidelity simulation, teamwork, and emergency medicine challenges in the InterSim Centre 🩺⚡️
Over six advanced scenarios, participants worked through airway emergencies, acute deterioration, trauma, and more — all supported and judged by EM consultants, ANPs, and simulation fellows.
💬 Why do we run the heats?
SimWars heats are designed to:
• Select the highest-scoring teams across both heats to represent QUB at the all-Ireland SimWars competition 🇮🇪
• Provide students with safe, low-stakes practice in emergencies they rarely encounter in teaching
• Offer high-quality feedback from senior clinicians
• Give OSCE-relevant experience in a setting outside the pressure of curriculum assessments
• Support interprofessional learning between medical and nursing students
✨ Feedback from participants and judges was fantastic — students loved the opportunity to practise realistic emergency medicine scenarios in such a supportive, high-tech environment.
A huge thank you to everyone who took part, and to the clinicians who volunteered their time to judge, teach, and debrief ❤️
Heat B will run this Saturday 13th Dec— good luck to all teams!