PARA3100 Emergency Medicine B Course description

This course is a continuation of and specialisation in relation to the course Emergency Medicine A (PARA2000). The focus is on certain challenging treatment issues and patient groups with special needs.

Passed the first and second years of the programme, with the exception of the course PARAPRA1 Clinical Studies 1.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• has broad knowledge of tentative diagnosis and intervention linked to emergency medical conditions
• has knowledge of drug treatment for children and pregnant and breastfeeding women
• has knowledge of gynaecological conditions and obstetrics
• has knowledge of diseases and injuries that affect patient groups with special needs, such as newborn babies, children, the elderly, people with chronic illnesses and people with disabilities
• has knowledge of and can recognise neglect and abuse in vulnerable patient groups
• has knowledge of children's development
• has knowledge of normal physiological parameters in children
• has knowledge of how aging affects the development and treatment of emergency medical conditions
• has knowledge of how to practise the duty of confidentiality in relation to minors/persons without legal capacity
• has knowledge of the duty to report to other agencies (the police, child welfare service) in the event of e.g. suspicion of abuse or neglect
• has knowledge of Section 29 c of the Health Personnel Act Information to be used in learning work and quality assurance

Skills

The student

• is capable of assessing the connections between signs and symptoms in emergency medical conditions in one or more organ systems
• is capable of recognising and assisting in normal and complicated births outside a hospital setting
• is capable of examining, assessing and treating ill and injured children
• is capable of examining, assessing and treating very old patients and patients suffering from dementia
• is capable of explaining the differences between hospital levels, the municipal health service's care levels and the health trusts' division/centralisation of special functions in order to choose the correct destination in different clinical situations

General competence

The student

• is capable of planning and carrying out relevant emergency medicine tasks linked to ambulance call-outs
• has an efficient and expedient prehospital approach to a broad range of patients

The work and teaching methods vary between lectures, seminars, study groups, simulation and skills training and self-study.

Practical training

Simulation and skills training in simulator-based birth assistance, systematic patient examination and documentation, decision-making in emergency medicine, choosing treatment and transport strategies and the use of monitoring equipment.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• minimum attendance of 80% at seminars and study groups
• minimum attendance of 90% at simulation and skills training
• individual written assignment, up to 1,000 words

Exam content: The learning outcomes

Exam form: Supervised individual written exam, 4 hours

None.

Grade scale A-F

All papers are assessed by two examiners. A minimum of twenty per cent of the exam papers will be assessed by an external examiner. The external examiner's assessment shall benefit all the students.