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Emergency Medicine in the United Kingdom—How It Is Taught

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Andrew K. Marsden
Affiliation:
From thePinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Extract

The staff of accident and emergency departments in the United Kingdom are realizing their increasing role in teaching the elements of emergency care. This paper highlights some recent developments which have influenced the way in which emergency medicine is taught.

First Aid instruction aims to impart the universally agreed and accepted principles to a wide ranging audience. Traditionally these principles have been embodied in the combined manual of the St. John Ambulance Service, St.

Type
Part I: Research-Education-Organization
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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