PMED1400 Assessment and Treatment of Acute Sick and Injured Patients, Part 1 Course description

The course deals with medical and trauma patients. A paramedic must have knowledge of clinical examination, patient history-taking and documentation related to emergency medical conditions and must be able to make sound assessments and decisions related to ill and injured patients’ priority, treatment and transport needs. The course provides an introduction to tentative diagnostics and emergency medical intervention and is based on recommendations on trauma made by the surgical and anaesthetic field.

The student must have been admitted to the study programme.

MT2 is dedicated to the project work, for example, development, data collection and analysis, depending on the specific projects. In addition to a written report, project status and the results achieved will be presented orally at an internal mini-conference affiliated with the programme.

MAUU5910 / MAUUD5910 Master's Thesis - MT1 (Phase 1) must have been passed before the student can start working with MT2.

A student who has completed this course should have the following learning outcomes, defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

On successful completion of this course the student

• has specialized knowledge on the specific areas of their Master thesis

Skills

On successful completion of this course the student

• can plan and carry out limited research or development projects
• can identify types and scopes of results which are required to ensure the claims and conclusions are scientifically valid
• can reflect on the decisions made and their consequences for the project

General competence

On successful completion of this course the student

• can carry out projects according to a defined project plan
• can carry out projects on the basis of a problem statement and defined research questions
• can carry out comprehensive independent study

The project plan, literature study, problem statement and research questions from MT1 (Phase 1) forms the basis for MT2. The work is carried out under the guidance of the supervisor appointed at the start of MT1. Full-time students are expected to complete MT2 in the 3rd semester. Part-time students are expected to complete MT2 in the 6th semester.

There are no coursework requirements in this course.

• A suitable and qualified document with a recommended 5000 words or more, with systematically documented research, including research methodology, project results and ethical considerations, according to the project plan from Phase I.
• Individual oral presentation of results at the mini-conference.

Both exams must be passed in order to pass the course.

The oral presentation cannot be appealed.

All exams are assessed by two examiners. At least 20% of the exam papers will be assessed by an external examiner. The external examiner’s assessment should benefit all students.

15 credits overlap with the course PARA2000 Emergency Medicine A

5 credits overlap with the course PARA2200 Prehospital Trauma Care