Overview:
This course is a practical in-depth study of medical emergencies, where the curriculum is designed to allow for a minimal amount of lecture and an ample amount of scenarios simulating actual hands-on physical assessment of patients. The course is designed to apply critical thinking skills to integrate patho-physiology with the assessment findings of a medical patient, determine and differentiate between actual and potential patient problems, advance the student's ability to conduct a competent medical examination that utilises proper diagnostic skills with critical thinking and interventions, advance the student's ability to utilise problem-solving strategies in interventions and management alternatives and advance the student's ability to communicate the pertinent findings and interventions to the teaching faculty.

Entry requirements:
All applicants should be able to show, as a minimum, evidence of training undertaken at EMT or equivalent standard.

Course includes:
Interactive lectures, teaching and evaluation stations covering: patient assessment, airway management, assessment of shock, dyspnea/respiratory failure, chest pain, altered mental status, abdominal pain.