A time efficient EMT-A course for first year medical students

✍ Scribed by Keith Bradley; Rebecca A.H. Anwar; Steven J. Davidson; John Mariano

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 352 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(82)80066-8

✦ Synopsis

education, medical school, EMT training; EMT, training, for medical students; training, EMT, for medical students

A Time Efficient EMT-A Course for First Year Medical Students

The purpose of the study was to design an EMT-A course for freshman medical students that maximized practical work and minimized lecture hours. A 48-hour required course was given to 101 members of the first-year class at The Medical College of Pennsylvania. Ten hours of lecturedemonstration time were included. Test scores were comparable to scores of regular EMT-A candidates and medical students who had a full lecture series included in their course. Means of further decreasing the number of hours of the course are discussed. By decreasing the number of curricular hours, it is hoped that medical schools not having EMT-A certification programs in their preclinical years will be encouraged to do so.