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06-450 EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN TRAINING
Department EMERGENCY MED Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Co-enrolled Elective Facility
Course Director WILLIAM C. FERGUSON, MD Enrollment Limit 40
Contact AUBREY LUALLEN Enrollment Minimum 5
Email aluallen@uabmc.edu Address GSB 207A
Phone (205) 975-8599 Fax
Weeks
Normally Offered
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Prerequisites Only MS1 students. 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites:
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description This course is designed to meet the requirements to apply for initial certification as an Emergency Medical Technician with a goal of exposing interested medical students to emergency medicine and EMS medicine. The course provides students with insights into the theory and application of concepts related to the profession of emergency medical services. Specific topics include: EMS preparatory, airway maintenance, patient assessment, management of trauma patients, management of medical patients, treating infants and children, and various EMS operations. This course is based on the NHTSA National Emergency Medical Services Education. Learning Objectives: 1) Cognitive: Learn and understand principles and concepts related to providing prehospital emergency medical care to patients of all ages. 2) Psychomotor: Apply principles of prehospital emergency medical care to patients of all ages in a variety of situations including medical emergencies, trauma emergencies, and technical rescues. 3) Affective: Value the importance of adhering to policy and procedures as well as standard of care medical practice related to providing prehospital emergency.
Where To Report CONTACT DEPARTMENT.
Requirements Required Text: Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, 11th Edition, ISBN: 978-1-284-08017-9
Evaluation Pass/Fail. Students must successfully complete all skills evaluations in order to pass each section of the course. Because time and lab space is limited, students are expected to attend every scheduled lab and use the lab time effectively. Students will be given time to practice each skill. Students must document two successful completions of each skill with a peer evaluating and one successful completion of each skill with an instructor evaluating. Each student will be given two opportunities to pass the skill with an instructor evaluator. If the student fails one or more skills after two attempts, the student will be assigned a remediation session. After remediation, the student will be given one final attempt to pass each skill. Failure of one or more required skills will result in failure of this course regardless of the academic standing of the student. Unexcused abscesses from skill labs will not be made-up. (See skills required in Notes Section.)
Notes Class meets Tuesday.

Skills required will be:

• Oxygen administration: High Flow/Low flow
• Airway Management: Basic adjuncts up to BIAD use
• BVM Ventilation of an Apneic Adult and Pediatric Patient
• Cardiac Arrest Management/AED/ CPR/ LUCAS
• Medical Patient Assessment
• Spinal Immobilization (supine and sitting patient)
• Bleeding Control/Shock Management
• Immobilization/Splinting
• Patient Assessment Trauma


Co-enrolled elective courses offer 2 weeks elective credit each; a student may only receive a maximum of 4 weeks elective credit from co-enrolled courses. STUDENTS ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO BE ENROLLED IN ONE CO-ENROLLED COURSE AT A TIME.