The Coast Hospital has a new scenario based learning suite that Med Students, Docs and the rest of the clinical staff have been having some training sessions. The aim of the sessions is to more accurately replicate the real world; a challenge that anyone who's given Rescue breaths and chest compressions to a plastic shell will fully appreciate.

One of the real beauties of this kind of learning is the chance at a 'do-over' or as golfers say, a mulligan. Moreover, the ability to analyse and critique our reactions in a stressful 'real-time' environment is extremely helpful in future decision making.

For Med Students, the analysis unfailingly emphasises two key points; that a) we can recognise an unwell patient and b) that a systematic approach will yield positive results.

In many aspects of life, we are not afforded the chance to analyse an instantaneous decision; the situation progresses, and all hindsight is, of course, 6:6. We rarely, if ever, get a 'do-over'. To combat this, cricketers have net-sessions, rugby union players have tackling practices, and soccer squads practice penalty kicks. All those hours for one shot. To take the extreme, the intense, the unimaginable and have the brain convey normality.

I'm yet to be involved in an arrest situation; I'm hopeful it runs like in the scenarios. For those ones, there are no mulligans.