Dr SAMS (Suicide Awareness in Medical Students) is the training programme delivered to thousands of future doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals at universities across England and Wales. The British Medical Association has supported our training since 2020. We are now opening up this suicide prevention and wellbeing training to all University teams, departments and faculties.
Olly’s Future is a recognised provider of suicide prevention and awareness training in the ‘Collective responsibility, collective action to prevent student suicide’ guide for the Higher Education sector.
Read the guide: https://tinyurl.com/2ut948dn
Up to 150 students can receive the two 90 minute, online sessions in a morning or afternoon to fit into busy academic timetables:
Part One: Talking About Suicide: 10 Tools (TAS10) provides participants with the essential tools to initiate a conversation around suicide. (CPD Certified). It includes a bespoke ‘Life Saving Conversation’, illustrating the ten tools in a co-produced audio recording.
2. CareSpace:10 Techniques for Wellbeing equips participants with techniques to develop and practise self-compassion, resilience and self-reflection and is based on the compassion circles model used widely in the NHS.
Every student and staff member deserves to feel equipped to support themselves, their peers, colleagues and patients.
The latest National Training Survey, released by the General Medical Council, shows that burnout risk among trainee doctors has doubled since 2019, with 1 in 5 now at risk as they enter the profession. The need for undergraduates to learn wellbeing and suicide prevention skills to carry them forward in their work is evidently clear.
Explore the latest GMC trainee data: https://tinyurl.com/5n82s2f8
Dr SAMS is expert-led suicide prevention and self-care training tailored to university communities – ideal for all university students, student services, wellbeing teams, academic staff, and student leaders.
Evidence-informed
Practical and compassionate
Designed to empower and give confidence
TAS10 was co-created by Ann Feloy, Olly’s Future and Rose Rowkins Start the Conversation: Suicide Prevention Education
Let’s work together to build safer, more supportive environments.
Contact Linda Foster ([email protected]). We’d love to discuss the options we have available to you.
If you would like to see Part One, our next open session is at 12.30 pm on 11th September. https://tinyurl.com/2wh7nftp during World Suicide Prevention Week.
We are offering this session to university department leads free of charge (maximum one person from each university). Please contact Linda for details on how to book.
The University of SheffieldUniversity of LiverpoolUniversity of GlasgowUniversity of StaffordshireGlasgow Caledonian UniversityUniversity of BrightonUniversity of the West of ScotlandKing’s College LondonEdinburghUniversity UniThe University of Manchester
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