Future doctors at UCL Medical School are learning ten suicide prevention tools and ten self-care and resilience techniques by attending our Dr SAMS (Suicide Awareness in Medical Students) programme, thanks to funding from the Fishmongers Livery Company.
The three-year initiative includes delivery of the two-part programme by Olly’s Future trainers, as well as in-house UCL staff learning how to teach the sessions to their students themselves.
Ann Feloy, Founder and CEO, said:
“I wanted to ensure sustainability and a way to scale the Dr SAMS programme to reach as many medical schools and universities as possible. This funding has enabled us to develop a Training for Trainers ‘T4T’ model so that the sessions can be delivered going forward by in-house staff, face to face. The work has involved developing training manuals and videos to help staff learn how to deliver Dr SAMS themselves.”
We trialled the suicide prevention ‘Talking about Suicide:10 Tools’ T4T with in-house training staff at Sanctuary Housing Association where they will roll out the training to up to 11,000 of their staff right across the UK.
