Student group’s challenge

“Students worked on the problem of major bleedings, like helping victims of bleeding on the street. [..] The students had no idea yet about how they (students) wanted to do that. The students started by wanting to develop a new type of bandage that would then locally influence blood coagulation. However, the students concluded at some point, that you cannot develop such new type of bandage without the full knowledge of blood coagulation and its research, without any money or cooperation with a company or a research group that is further along with developing such a new type of bandage. So, students got stuck. […] Students ultimately came up with the idea of using existing things that are not available yet on the street, because an ambulance has it, but they are not directly at the place where it happened, like in the street. […] Later, students came up with creating a first aid kit specially focused on large bleedings in the street, from existing kits. The students had made an extremely simple manual with pictures and tested it on non-medicine students whether they understood the pictures and could apply them in case of a large bleeding in the street. Then students worked on making that kit available, and the students thought of just hanging their newly developed kit in a different color box next to the general AID first aid box. I personally thought that was a fantastic idea, it is practical. […] What I often notice in groups when it goes well, is that there are different people in the group. You need someone who oversees everything and makes sure that all tasks are done at the right times. You also need someone who can think creatively and who is not afraid to change direction and who can convince the others that it is fine if you must change halfway the project. You also need people that can search in the literature and can write a good report” [T2 major bleedings in the street].

Teaching activities

“What about your role as a teacher in this group? Yes, I do not have to do much here” [T2 bleeding].