Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Define the goals, applicability, and limitations to wilderness emergency care.
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Students will list the common goals of wilderness emergency care and detail its limitations and benefits.
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In-class assignment and exams
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Demonstrate the proper wilderness emergency care patient assessment, including the head-to-toe examination.
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Working in groups, students will demonstrate the standardized procedure for conducting a head-to-toe assessment in the austere environment.
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Faculty will witness the skill performance and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist. In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.
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Perform the complete SAMPLE history-taking process for patients in the wilderness setting in conjunction with the physical examination.
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Working in groups, students will demonstrate the standardized procedure for obtaining a full history from a patient in the austere environment.
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Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient interview and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist. In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.
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Translate the subjective findings from the history-taking process and the objective findings from the patient assessment into appropriate SOAP notes.
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Students will collect all subjective data from the history-taking process and the objective data from the physical assessment process and document those findings into a standardized SOAP format in the verbal and written forms.
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In class assignments as well as written exams.
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Explain the essential aspects of each of the commonly encountered wilderness medical and trauma emergencies.
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Students will detail the basic pathophysiologies, basic clinical presentations, and the general complications associated with common medical and traumatic emergencies.
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In class assignments and written examinations.
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Explain how to prevent common wilderness emergencies and safety risks.
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Students will describe how most wilderness emergencies occur, what risk factors are often present, what safety and medical sequelae often result, and how best to mitigate those factors.
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In class assignments and written examinations.
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List the criteria inherent to the evacuation of a patient from a wilderness environment.
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Students will detail each of the criteria necessary to determine the urgency of a wilderness emergency, classify the nature of the emergency, and identify the criteria necessary for the evacuation process.
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Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient scenario and notate details in accordance to a standardized evacuation procedure checklist. In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.
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Demonstrate how to effectively treat, package, and evacuate a patient from the remote wilderness environment.
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Students, working in groups, will evaluate, treat, and package a simulated patient in preparation for evacuation and transport from the wilderness environment.
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Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient scenario and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist. In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.
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Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from central nervous system, spinal column, extremity, musculoskeletal, and soft tissue injuries.
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Students, working in groups, will evaluate and treat a simulated patient suffering from trauma injuries and prepare them for evacuation and transport from the wilderness environment.
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Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient scenario and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist. In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.
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Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from heat, cold, closed blunt force trauma, drowning, envenomation, fracture, laceration, and puncture injuries as well as other, related environmental emergencies.
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Students, working in groups, will evaluate and treat a simulated patient suffering from environmental emergencies and prepare them for evacuation and transport from the wilderness environment.
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Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient scenario and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist. In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.
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Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from a variety of medical emergencies in the wilderness environment.
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Students, working in groups, will evaluate and treat a simulated patient suffering from a medical emergency and prepare them for evacuation and transport from the wilderness environment.
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Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient scenario and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist. In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.
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