Acute care
BASIC Instructor & Provider Course,
October 2008, Sydney. Registration deadline 27th September.
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Acute care BASIC Instructor & Provider Course,
October 2008, Sydney. Registration deadline 27th September. |
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Welcome to the Acute Care component of your undergraduate training. The aim of this component is not to teach you about Intensive Care but to teach you to recognise, assess, support and treat acutely ill patients. More specifically we aim to help you achieve certain competencies relevant to acute medicine for undergraduates. It is important that you are aware of the what competencies are expected as these will form the basis of testing both during this module and at the end of the year. Click here to view competencies. The Acute Care module is designed as an active learning process in which you are expected to take a proactive part. It consists of:
The lectures and skill stations will be delivered as a 4-5 day course during your year 5 medicine 2 block with your A& E attachment in the same block. Students should pick up their manual and CD-ROM at least 1 week prior to the course or prior to their ICU attachment, whichever comes sooner. Both manual and CD-ROM are available from the Dept of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, 5th floor, PWH. Not all of the material will be covered in the lectures and skill stations and students are expected to have read the course manual, completed the interactive tutorial on arterial blood gases (on the CD-ROM) and read the web-based material prior to attending the course. Note that the lectures are designed to complement the material in the course manual and are not simply repetition of the same material. In addition all students must complete the on-line (open book) pre-course MCQs prior to attending the course. Time will be allocated during the course to go through the material on the CD-ROM (except for the Basic life support tutorial which should be completed beforehand). Please make sure that you bring a pair of electronic headphones with you so that you can listen to the narration on the CD-ROM. Successful completion of the course is dependent on attendance at all teaching sessions and satisfactory performance in all skill stations and the post-course (closed book) MCQ test. Although the extent of knowledge expected in this module is considerable, much of the material should be revision. |
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