The ICU provides sophisticated, indefinite multi-system life support for patients following surgery, major trauma, complex respiratory management, sepsis, oncology, renal failure, infectious diseases and multiple organ dysfunction.

As part of the $28-million ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language at ANU, the project is looking to explain individual variability among children: why some two-year-olds have more than 200 words in their vocabulary while some have none.

For my elective placement, I chose to stay closer to home, and undertook two 2 week placements within the Canberra region and surrounds.