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EMSA Summer School Emergency Medicine

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in utilization of emergency medicine, which coincided with an expansion of medical technology to include numerous innovative diagnostic and treatment modalities. As a result, the task of the physician has multiplied exponentially in difficulty. The emergency physician still must excel in the traditional skills of obtaining a medical history and performing a physical examination under exacting time constraints. In the same time, he or she must be fluent with the latest permutations of biomedical technology and their application to the out of hospital care or emergency department setting. The topics of this school of emergency medicine were selected as representative of the depth and breadth of current emergency medicine practice. Our aim was to create an innovative emergency medicine teaching program that would meet the minimum essential requirements and standards in tune with global trends in medical education, to substitute a traditional knowledge-based concept of medical education with evidence-based medicine, and to introduce problem-solving skills through problem-based learning and case based teaching of medicine. We hope that we will stimulate student's critical thinking and acquisition of practical skills and attitudes specific for vocational needs of tomorrow's doctors, as well as creating of a new educational climate and culture in which all protagonist of the educational process, students and teachers alike should consider it as ethical obligation to constantly develop their knowledge.

emergency medicine

Introduction to EMSA Summer School Emergency medicine-Dubrovnik 2006 ; Basic life support ; Defibrillation ; Monitoring of the cardiac rhythm ; Drugs, poisons, and rock'n'roll ; Management of poisoned patient ; Antidots ; Intravenous line, injection and infusion ; 4D (door, data, decision, drug) ; Where does my blood go? ; Chest pain