Prehospital care

[melon]

I was chatting to a BASICS doctor yesterday as a matter of fact. I was driving into hospital and a woman was hit by a car running a red light. I helped out until the ambulance and this doctor arrived. It sounds like a great thing to do to mix up your working week a bit. Plus it's pretty badass giving morphine by the side of the road and then reducing a broken femur with ketamine.

[samoan]

Hey, yeah I'm in a very similiar position with wanting to base a potential career on emergency/critical/pre-hospital care. Also recently attended a BASICs seminar and was told a similiar story to what has already been mentioned here, i.e. that a formalised training scheme is potentially in the pipeline. In terms of directions to work towards, I've been told training with dual accredition in both emergency and critical care via the ACCS route is probably the best way to go presently (or alternatively in anaesthetics). This would ensure you are in a good position to take advantage of any potential development in a new training scheme as well as maintain a solid 'proper job' structure to fall back on! Not to mention being able to work as a BASIC's doc obviously!

Getting some experience with the local ambo crews is always useful and well worth while (as long as you find a good crew). I'm lucky to have worked for a ambo trust for several years before starting med school and throughly recommend it!

But yeah I agree, a inter-university society or something like that for this kind of area would be a good idea. Someone more organised and computer literate would probably have to start it up though!

Cheers....

[Martigan]

Yes, where ever I end up, if there isn't alreay a student BASICS Group, it's something I would be considering to try help set up...