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Emergency Medicine for Everyone
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  • Accredited by: CPDiAP
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  • Course delivery: This course is delivered in video format

Course details

Experience everyday life in an emergency department

Practitioners of emergency medicine (doctors and nurses) must be able to undertake high-stress troubleshooting and rapid medical detective work, as well as make split-second decisions that can make the difference between a patient's life or death. This is usually carried out in the most intense department of a hospital - the emergency department.

As greatly skilled professionals, doctors and nurses must undergo demanding training as medical students; must be able to have the unparalleled skill of extracting important information from patients that they may have overlooked (or are unwilling to share); all whilst having extensive insight and readily-available knowledge into a plethora of injuries and illnesses.

With this course, provided by Global Edulink, a UK-leading online training provider, you get to experience the high drama of an emergency ward whilst gaining in-depth and comprehensive knowledge of the type of training only medical students would acquire. These comprehensive lectures are a thrilling introduction to emergency medicine and covers such topics as:
  • Triage in emergency medicine
  • Thinking fast in emergency medicine
  • Treating the patient and the family
  • Altered mental status
  • Treating insect and animal bites
  • An insight into fever
  • Preventative medicine
  • Exercise and its health benefits
  • How to stay safe in an emergency department
  • Emergency medicine for travellers
 
COURSE CURRICULUM
  1. Mode triage in emergency medicine
  2. Thinking again and emergency medicine
  3. Diagnosis is the story.
  4. Identify hidden clues in the emergency department
  5. How to treat the patient and the family
  6. What causes chest pain? And treat the cause.
  7. Need of the emergency department
  8. Overview of altered mental status
  9. Identify simple symptoms of serious illness
  10. Protect yourself first in an emergency
  11. How to treat insect and animal bites?
  12. Identifying the missing piece in an emergency diagnosis and healthy paranoia in emergency medicine
  13. Fever, friend or foe?
  14. Always, how to treat pain?
  15. An ounce of prevention
  16. Understanding the big picture in emergency medicine
  17. Are exercises good for your health?
  18. How to stay safe in the emergency department?
  19. Understanding emergency medicine for travelers
  20. Learn emergency medicine lessons from the past
Benefits you will gain:
  • High quality e-learning study materials and mock exams.
  • Tutorials/materials from the industry leading experts.
  • 24/7 Access to the Learning Portal.
  • Benefit of applying NUS extra Discount Card.
  • Recognised Accredited Qualification.
  • Excellent customer service and administrative support.
Certification:

Successful candidates will be awarded a certificate in Emergency Medicine for Everyone.
 
  Ultima actualização em  26 March, 2024

Eligibility / Requirements

  • This course is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds. However, a sound academic background would be an advantage.
  • Learners should be ages 18 or over to undertake the qualification.
  • Basic understanding of English language, literacy, numeracy and ICT are required to attend this course.

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