Thank you to all the incredible organisations and volunteers operating these vital helplines over the festive season and throughout the year. @samaritans.bsky.social PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide, Shout UK, The Compassionate Friends UK, YoungMinds, Campaign Against Living Miserably

Ella used to work for Olly's Future and this is not her first gruelling fundraising challenge for our work in suicide awareness & prevention, including a night trek to the summit of Mt Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) and the Thames Kayak Challenge - we can't wait to see what her next adventure will be!

Huge thanks to everyone who has donated. And thank you and well done to everyone who took part - Ella Spurgeon, Luke Baldwin, Kaan Jordan (who came up with the idea!), Leanne White, Grace Brown, Noah Daniel, Luke Hanrahan and Harley Smith - you are all amazing and inspirational!

For more information, contact our Dr SAMS Programme Co-ordinator [email protected]
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Talking about Suicide:10 Tools (TAS:10) was created by Ann Feloy of Olly's Future in memory of her son and Rose Rowkins of Start the Conversation: Suicide Prevention Education.

CareSpace: 10 Techniques for Wellbeing - 90 mins. A guided, psychologically safe space grounded in the Compassion Circles model, widely used throughout the NHS, where participants learn self-care, self-resilience and self-reflective techniques to look after their own mental health needs.

Talking about Suicide:10 Tools (TAS:10) - 90 mins (CPD certified). Participants learn ten tools and the confidence and competence to have a potentially life-saving conversation with a peer or a future patient who may be thinking of suicide and keep them 'safe for now'.

Dr SAMS teaches medical and healthcare students across the UK how to look after themselves, their peers and their future patients. It is made up of two parts:
Talking about Suicide:10 Tools (TAS:10) and CareSpace: 10 Techniques for Wellbeing

Dr Julia Hynes, Associate Professor in Medical Education at KMMS says, "We are most grateful to the DR SAMS team for offering the sessions to our year 2 students and to Kent County Council for making this possible through funding."

Our work is being independently evaluated by UCL Medical School with backing from The Fishmongers Company.

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and a Royal Medical Benevolent Fund @RMBF study found that 68% of medical students surveyed have experienced mental health pressure during their medical degree, yet 50% say they would have concerns about seeking support for mental illness as a medical student. www.bmj.com/content/381/...

The British Medical Journal @BMJ (April 2023) reported that "Medical students face high levels of mental health problems but stigma stops them getting help”

We've been delivering our Dr SAMS (Suicide Awareness in Medical Students) two-part training to medical schools and universities across England and Wales for the past five years, with the support of the British Medical Association.

If you would like your healthcare organisation's students or health care providers to take part in suicide prevention training, and learn how to take care of themselves and colleagues, get in touch with [email protected]

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The two-part training course encompasses our suicide awareness & prevention training Talking About Suicide: 10 Tools (TAS10) and the self-care guidance session Carespace (10 Techniques for Wellbeing) and can be delivered online or face-to-face.

DrSAMS provides vital suicide prevention and wellbeing training for medical, nursing and health care students to look after themselves, their peers and their future patients.