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Inside Healthcare

From diagnosis to design: health that is engineered.
9:30am–2:30pm | Up to 80 students

Inside Healthcare takes students to the frontier of medical innovation, where engineering and biology meet to solve real health challenges. Every workshop shows a different way technology is transforming patient care.

Workshops
Students rotate through workshops in small groups.

  • Drone Delivery: A donor heart is ready and the clock is ticking. Students code a drone to fly a critical delivery mission and discover how autonomous flight is changing emergency medicine.
  • Health Check: Working with a high-fidelity robotic patient, students take vitals, perform CPR, test blood types and run real diagnostics.
  • Prosthetic Design: Students learn the CAD skills prosthetics engineers use every day and design a prosthetic limb.
  • VR Body Systems: Students journey through organs and body systems at full scale in virtual reality, then use what they've learned on a virtual patient.

Details

Duration: 75 minutes

Capacity: 20 students

  • Practise first aid, CPR and diagnostic skills on a high-fidelity simulated patient
  • Explore how the body's organ systems work together
  • Code an autonomous flight mission
  • Design for a real person's needs using CAD
  • Discover careers across biomedical engineering, allied health and medical technology

  • Science:
    • VC2S8U03 (structure and function of cells, tissues and organ systems)
    • VC2S8I03 (select and use equipment to generate and record data)
  • Health and Physical Education:
    • VC2HP8P08 (protective behaviours and help-seeking, including basic first aid and CPR)
  • Digital Technologies:
    • VC2TDI8C01 (define and decompose real-world problems)
    • VC2TDI8C02 (design and test algorithms)
  • Design and Technologies:
    • VC2TDE8S01 (how design occupations consider ethical factors) 
    • VC2TDE8D02 (generate, test, iterate and communicate design ideas

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