Making It PEACHY: Creation of an Innovative Immersive Simulation Day Promoting Empathetic, Attentive Communication for Holistic Care for Year 4 Medical Students

Aims This team of simulation fellows and a final-year medical student at a London teaching hospital created an innovative simulation course for fourth-year medical students with the aim to supplement existing undergraduate psychiatry teaching by providing additional opportunity to practice clinical skills. The course allowed students to practice and improve advanced communication skills across a range of inpatient and community settings across GP, A feedback showed heightened confidence and competence in core skills including psychiatric history taking, mental state examination and risk assessment, as well as core communication skills such as explaining a new diagnosis and managing heightened emotion. Conclusion Feedback shows the pilot successfully met its aims and enhanced undergraduate training, filling an educational need. Next steps would include formally approaching the university to discuss implementation of the course into the core curriculum. Additional refinements would include further consultation with service users and people with lived experience and consideration around use of actors to ensure complex subjects such as immigration and neurodivergence are portrayed ethically and accurately.