The student will be able to:

1. Identify major anatomical structures of the body and their function in relation to the total body system.
2. Recognize the nature and seriousness of the patient's condition or extent of injuries to assess requirements for emergency medical care.
3. Administer appropriate emergency medical care based on assessment findings of the patient's condition.
4. Lift, move, position, and otherwise handle the patient to minimize discomfort and prevent further injury.
5. Describe techniques of victim access, disentanglement, and removal from the scene of a vehicular crash or other entanglement.
6. Debate and interpret the legal implications of emergency care.
7. List priorities of care with multiple trauma victims and/or multiple victims (triage).
8. Discuss transportation considerations for patients with various medical devices.
9. Perform safely and effectively the expectations of the job description. Discuss the role of the EMT in the delivery of emergency medical services, indicating common problems and providing suggestions for improvement of services to the community.
10. Identify and treat musculoskeletal, soft tissue injuries.
11. Discuss patients with behavioral problems.
12. Demonstrate an understanding of OB GYN emergencies.
13. Discuss and demonstrate how to properly lift and move patients.
14. Demonstrate the proper way of treating various types of wounds and to splint fractures.
15. Discuss various childhood illnesses injuries and how to treat them.
16. Exhibit an understanding of ambulance operations and California law.
17. Discuss various types of emergencies which involve multiple agency responses.

1. The human body
   1. Enhances the EMT's knowledge of the human body
   2. A brief overview of body systems
   3. Anatomy and physiology
   4. Topographic anatomy and terms
2. Trauma patient assessment
   1. Determine mechanism of injury and develop a treatment plan
3. Treatment
   1. Treatment plans will be in accordance with local and state guidelines
   2. Give appropriate treatment to improve patients condition
4. Lifting and techniques for moving patients in multiple positions
   1. Learn the proper method to lift patients
   2. Learn to use multiple devices to move the patient
5. Learn the proper techniques to extricate or disentangle a patient from their environment
   1. Learn the scene safety during rescue operations
   2. Learn about the tools used and their appropriate use during the rescue operation
6. Medical/legal and ethical issues
   1. Discuss the legal concerns and their implications during patient care
7. Multiple patient situations
   1. Learn the importance of triage
   2. Discuss how the EMS system deals with this type of event and how the EMT is to work within incident command system
8. Transportation of patients with medical devices
   1. Learn the scope of practice for the EMT for patients with medical devices
9. The EMS system
   1. Learn how to work within the EMS system
   2. Discuss the importance of CQI
10. Musculoskeletal system
    1. Learn how to treat various injuries to the skeletal system
    2. Learn how to treat soft tissue and burn injuries
11. Behavioral emergencies
    1. Awareness of behavioral emergencies
    2. Management of the disturbed patient
12. Obstetrics/gynecology
    1. Anatomical and physiological changes that occur during pregnancy
    2. Demonstrate normal and abnormal deliveries
    3. Common gynecological emergencies
    4. Neonatal resuscitation
13. Lifting and moving patients
    1. Knowledge of body mechanics
    2. Lifting and carrying techniques, principles of moving patients
    3. Overview of equipment
    4. Practical skills of lifting and moving will also be developed in this lesson
14. Soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries
    1. Anatomy of the skin and the management of soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries and the management of burns
    2. Techniques of dressing and bandaging wounds
    3. Splinting
    4. Emergency medical care, including the use of cervical immobilization devices and short and long back boards
    5. Helmet removal
15. Infants and children
    1. Developmental and anatomical differences in infants and children
    2. Common medical and trauma situations
16. Ambulance operations
    1. Responding to a call
    2. Emergency vehicle operations, equipment, gaining access, and removing the patient
17. Special incidents
    1. Hazardous materials
    2. Incident management systems
    3. Mass casualty situations
    4. Basic triage

Skills practice to become competent for NREMT (National Register EMT) testing. Skills include, but are not limited to:

1. Medical patient assessment
2. Trauma patient assessment
3. Airway management - CPAP
4. IV set-up
5. Childbirth deliveries
6. Traction splints
7. Spinal immobilization
   1. Seating
   2. Supine
8. Helmet removal
9. CPR/FBAO
10. Glucometer
11. Chest seal
12. Epi-auto-injector

Written quizzes
Final written exam (achieve an 80% or better on the final to successfully pass the course, successfully pass the skills evaluations)
Complete a minimum 24 hours clinical experience with 10 patient write-ups
Must achieve a 75% or better for a course completion certificate
Demonstrate a professional attitude to instructors and other students and maintain a professional appearance, including wearing the appropriate program uniform, name tag, a watch with a second hand throughout program and clinical

Lecture
Discussion
Cooperative learning exercises

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, 11th ed. (ISBN 9781284080179). 2017.

Weekly reading assignment from the text. Example: Session 1: read Chapters 40, 42, 43, during the first week of class.