Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine for Healthcare Professionals 1: Systems and Resources Level 7 (Health CPD)

Key Details

Module Cost: £1,110
Further Information: fmh.cpd@uea.ac.uk

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Module Overview / Introduction

The Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) for Healthcare Professional modules are delivered in partnership with the East Anglian Air Ambulance, ensuring a high quality, contemporary, clinically-focused learning experience for practitioners working in the pre-hospital setting.

Both Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) modules will equip you with foundational knowledge, skills and behaviours necessary for a career in advanced PHEM.

PHEM 1 focuses on enabling students to navigate the complexity in emergency medical systems and associated equipment and medicines management. The module covers three main topics, Working in Emergency Medical Service systems; Pre-Hospital Medicines management, Equipment and their governance; and Practical Application of Equipment and Medication in Practice.

Both modules will help to prepare students wishing to undertake the Diploma of Immediate Medical Care (DipIMC) and/or considering the Fellowship of immediate Care exam with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

The modules are closely aligned with the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine curriculum and may be be completed as a Post graduate Certificate in Specialist Practice (Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine), when combined with the module Using Evidence to Lead and Advance Practice, or form part of a MSc in Advanced Professional Practice.

Whether you are a paramedic, nurse, ODP or other registered healthcare professional this course will advance your understanding and capacity to deliver critical care in the pre-hospital environment.

Module Introduction Day Online: 06/01/25 (9-5pm)

Online Block Release Dates:
06/01/25,20/01/25, 03/02/25, 17/02/25, 03/03/25, 17/03/25

Live Online Tutorial:
21/01/25, 04/02/25, 18/02/25, 04/03/25, 18/03/25 all 1-2pm

Live Online Webinar:
16/01/25, 30/01/25, 13/02/25, 27/02/25, 13/03/25, all 3-5pm
27/03/25 9-5pm

06/01/25 and 27/03/25 both available as optional In person days

Learning Outcomes

(Mapped against the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (IBTPHEM) Subspeciality Training in Prehospital Emergency Medicine).

By the end of this module you will be able to:

Contrast and critique the components of differing regional, national and international models of EMS systems (1.1, 1.2, 1.9)
Apply enhanced knowledge and understanding of the diverse and complex systems, policies, governance, and financing through which pre-hospital emergency medical patients present and are managed (1.7)
Critically considers and apply effective communication and clinical reasoning skills in the medicines management and administration of pre-hospital medicines to individuals across the age ranges using a patient-centred approach (2.6, 2.9, 2.11)
Critically appraise current legal, regulatory, and professional frameworks to medicines management demonstrating an awareness of ethical issues and influences on medicines management decisions (3.1, 3.5)
Critically apply knowledge of pharmacology and epidemiology to design an appropriate evidence-based treatment plan utilising pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches (3.5)
Critically reflect that individuals in societies make sense of death in different ways demonstrating cultural competence, the application of legal processes relating to death, and sensitivity around death and dying (2.13)
Critically apply the principles underlying the function and design of pre-hospital devices (3.3, 3.4)

Teaching & Assessment

6 Online Blocks of learning over 12 weeks
Live online webinars and tutorials
Independent Study

20 credits = 200 effort hours
At least one study day per 2-week block of learning
Attendance expected at live (synchronous) tutorials and webinars

Assessment:
Oral OSCE

How to Apply / Disclaimer

To apply for this as a single module as part of your Continuing Professional Development please enter the application system via our Professional Development section.

Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules and regular (five-yearly) review of course programmes. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, there will normally be prior consultation of students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff or sabbatical leave. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will endeavour to inform students.

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