External Professional Development

Rural Health West provides clinical workshops and emergency training for medical and health professionals in Western Australia. View our Events Calendar to find out what professional development opportunities are coming to your region.

Below are a list of emergency training courses provided by external agencies.

Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS)

The APLS covers the following areas:

• Life support - basic and advanced 
• Serious illness  
• Serious injury 
• Practical procedures, including radiology and pain management 

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ARC Advanced Life Support 1

An Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) accredited one day course, providing practical skills and knowledge to manage patients in the immediate period of crisis.  The program includes recognition, assessment and immediate management of the deteriorating patient.

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ARC Advanced Life Support 2

An Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) accredited course, this two day program aims to teach the theory and practical skills to effectively manage cardio/respiratory arrest, peri-arrest situations and special circumstances, and to prepare senior members of a multidisciplinary team to treat the patient until transfer to a critical care area if possible.  The course focuses on achieving advanced resuscitation competencies and is also designed to develop leadership and team skills in managing such emergencies.

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Clinical Emergency Management Program (CEMP) - Advanced workshop

The Clinical Emergency Management Program Advanced workshops have been designed to further build participants' knowledge, skills and confidence when responding to medical emergencies. These workshops are facilitated by a national team of highly trained intensive care paramedics.

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Emergency Life Support (ELS)

A two day course teaching a systematic approach to the emergency management of any seriously ill patient. The course consists of an intensive program of lectures, skill stations and interactive group discussions.

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Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) - Provider course

A two and half day intensive course in the management of injury victims in the first one to two hours following injury. Adapted from the Advanced Trauma Life Support  course of the American College of Surgeons in 1988. Emphasis on life saving skills and systematic clinical approach.

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Rural Emergency Obstetrics Training (REOT)

This one-day emergency medicine course has been designed to increase obstetric skill levels of participants with minimal prior practical knowledge. It is taught by a team of experienced rural GP obstetricians and midwives, who demonstrate the practical skills of a normal delivery and obstetric emergency scenarios that could occur in rural or remote practice. This is achieved using inter-professional clinical simulations during a practical hands-on workshop.

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Rural Emergency Skills Training (REST)

This comprehensive two-day emergency medicine course covers many of the common emergencies in rural practice and is relevant to the pre-hospital, small rural hospital and private rural practice environment. The course is designed to involve multi-disciplinary groups of medical, nursing and ambulance personnel.

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WA Country Health Service - Medical Education Unit

In each country region, the central Medical Education Unit (MEU) supports junior doctors and the regional medical education teams to provide professional development.  The regional Director of Clinical Training and Medical Education Officer will also facilitate the deliver of customised education and training programs that reflect the local context and specialty areas.

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Western Trauma Course (WTC)

The Western Trauma Course (WTC) provides rural and remote health care practitioners with the education, re-training and re-skilling to successfully assess, triage and manage acute trauma patients. The program is a 1 day multidisciplinary course which covers the essential components of early trauma management including; MOI and initial assessment, head injury, pain management, paediatric trauma, chest injury, abdominal injury, rural trauma scenario, inter-hospital transfer, and incorporates hands on skill stations covering; the management of adult and paediatric airways, chest trauma, paediatric trauma, shock and burns.  Held in rural areas of WA, it is specifically aimed at meeting the needs of rural and remote health care professionals considering issues such as sparse population, limited medical facilities and staffing, and longer transport times.

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