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This robotic birthing 'mother' is being used to teach Irish medical students

The new RCSI building has installed robotic mannequins that can simulate the birthing process.

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THIS BRAND NEW robotic birthing simulator is being used to teach students at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) facility in Dublin.

The country’s largest medical school recently opened a state-of-the-art new building in the city centre, which the RCSI says is the largest and most-modern facility of its kind in Europe.

Clinical simulation and virtual reality tools like this are part of a drive to move medical training away from traditional classroom set-ups.

The centre’s director said the birthing simulator would help build up students’ interpersonal skills as well as their technical abilities.

Read: ‘A chronic haemorrhage’: Just one in five trainee doctors plan to definitely stay in Ireland to work

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    Mute Paul Doyle
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    Aug 12th 2013, 8:19 PM

    Fair play to him, nice gesture

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    Aug 12th 2013, 8:28 PM

    Such a nice touch fair play to him. Even if his country’s justice system let everyone down.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 8:50 PM

    Such a nice thing for him to do. Nice to show she hasn’t been forgotten by the country she made her second home.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 8:39 PM

    I can’t believe this happened almost a year ago, poor Tom her husband…but what a wonderful wonderful gesture on behalf of the people of Melbourne!

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    Aug 12th 2013, 9:16 PM

    Still very sad to think about a year later.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 8:45 PM

    Very thoughtful gesture.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 9:46 PM

    Please don’t call the girl by her surname! Her name is Jill.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:07 PM

    Agree Michelle..’Meagher ‘had been living in Moreland’ is inapropriate, her name was Jill.

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    Aug 13th 2013, 5:59 AM

    A murder that should of never happened if the idiots on the board had done their job properly

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