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TBH: surgery
Teddy bear hospital is a project run by medical students within the Standing Committee on Public Health of the IFMSA and within the European Medical Students Association - EMSA.
It addresses to children in the pre-school age, 3-6 years, with the goal to reduce in a playful way the fear of children to visit a doctor or the hospitalisation and at the same time provides an opportunity for medical students to learn more about paediatrics and gives them a chance to work with children.
The main focus of the Teddy Bear Hospital Project is to create an athmosphere of trust where children can deal with the topic “Hospital and disease”.
This aim is reached through the way Teddy Bear Hospitals works.
A place (a tent, gym, hall,..)is colourfully decorated and set up as a hospital. The kindergartens of the city will be invited to visit the hospital. Usually about 400 children could be examined with their toys. Before their visit in our Teddy Bear Hospital the nanny or nurse should discuss and talk with the children about “being ill”, physicians and hospitals. The children should think about diseases for their dolls which will be treated later in the Teddy Bear Hospital. First the children explain the history of the present illness of their teddy bear to a teddy doctor. Together they make an anamnesis and after this the teddy doctor does an “physical examination” and further diagnostics ( e.g. “X-Ray”). After this the patient gets a medical treatment: medicine, operation, bandage, tapes etc.
Besides they have also the opportunity to explore an ambulance car.
please click here to see all photos:
TBH: surgery
Teddy bear hospital is a project run by medical students within the Standing Committee on Public Health of the IFMSA and within the European Medical Students Association - EMSA.
It addresses to children in the pre-school age, 3-6 years, with the goal to reduce in a playful way the fear of children to visit a doctor or the hospitalisation and at the same time provides an opportunity for medical students to learn more about paediatrics and gives them a chance to work with children.
The main focus of the Teddy Bear Hospital Project is to create an athmosphere of trust where children can deal with the topic “Hospital and disease”.
This aim is reached through the way Teddy Bear Hospitals works.
A place (a tent, gym, hall,..)is colourfully decorated and set up as a hospital. The kindergartens of the city will be invited to visit the hospital. Usually about 400 children could be examined with their toys. Before their visit in our Teddy Bear Hospital the nanny or nurse should discuss and talk with the children about “being ill”, physicians and hospitals. The children should think about diseases for their dolls which will be treated later in the Teddy Bear Hospital. First the children explain the history of the present illness of their teddy bear to a teddy doctor. Together they make an anamnesis and after this the teddy doctor does an “physical examination” and further diagnostics ( e.g. “X-Ray”). After this the patient gets a medical treatment: medicine, operation, bandage, tapes etc.
Besides they have also the opportunity to explore an ambulance car.
please click here to see all photos: