Student Interest Group Workshop/Skills Lab ideas?

[thirteen78]

Hey everyone,

I'm just wondering what sort of workshops/skills lab your student interest groups/EM clubs have done in the past.

The common workshops seem to be Suturing, Intubation, Splinting, Lumbar Puncture, and IV workshops.

Any other ones? the AAEM Student Section is trying to compile a set of "starter kits" for workshops and would love any input.

Thanks in advance.....

Warren Wiechmann
President, AAEM Student Section
www.aaemres.org

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[mikecwru]

Hey everyone,

I'm just wondering what sort of workshops/skills lab your student interest groups/EM clubs have done in the past.

The common workshops seem to be Suturing, Intubation, Splinting, Lumbar Puncture, and IV workshops.

Any other ones? the AAEM Student Section is trying to compile a set of "starter kits" for workshops and would love any input.

Thanks in advance.....

Warren Wiechmann
President, AAEM Student Section
www.aaemres.org

I was involved in a skill workshop with the medical students that involved a toxicology station, intubation station, rhythm and IV start station, and suturing station. They also usually do a "disaster talk," and do a "residency match" forum. I can provide you with the emails of the students running it if you PM me.

mike

 

[Doczilla]

Not that they've all been done here, but here are some other ideas:
Chest tubes
Central lines
Advanced airway techniques: surgical and needle cric (using pig tracheas, which you can usually order from a slaughterhouse), gum bougie, iLMA, lighted stylet, retrograde wireguided intubation, etc.
Code skills
Rhythm recognition
Triage for mass casualty incident
Vehicle extrication
Hazmat
How to don an SCBA
Nuclear, Chem, Bio weapons
Case scenarios
Managing combative patients, physical restraint and sedation

A study was done here that some of the ER club got to participate in involving performing procedures under fire. A simulator was set up with projection screens, speakers with explosions, and a small "foxhole" with sandbags. The study was to see if physicians with minimal training in things like chest tubes and central lines could effectively perform the procedures under duress. The ER students seemed to enjoy it. This may be popular among your military students, since all kinds of specialists are being deployed to Iraq. ("Hell of a place for a pediatrician" - Eric Shobitz)


'zilla

 

[hakksar]

In addition to the above mentioned we also do an ultrasound skills night (other skills nights here are suturing, intubation/chest tubes/thoracotomy, and phlebotomy/IM/SQ injections). For the intubation/chest tubes/ thoracotomy night we use Dental School Cadavers for Chest Tubes and have an ED Resident Demonstrate Thoracotomies on the same Cadavers, we also intubate an airway mannequin and a fresh cadaver (not fixed). It works pretty well.

 

[DrQuinn]

I was VEEP of my school's EM interest club back in the day... we did:

Intubation stations, along with trach labs with pig tracheas
Suture Labs
Splinting Labs
Central Line Access

By far the most popular and USEFUL were the intubation stations and suture labs. At my school it was only the M1s and M2s that really went to our EMIG's stuff... and I think splinting and central venous access are a little above an M2's head...

We took ACLS at the end of 2nd year and I think the intubation statino really helps relieve some of the anxiety of ACLS (albeit when I took ACLS in 2001, you actually could get failed... this was before they made it "student-friendly").

Q

 

[j-snake]

This year we have done workshops in splinting, ECG interpretation, Ultrasound, C-spine, and we have an upcoming workshop in Airway management. I think we are going to have a suture workshop as well. We also facilitate ED shadowing, ambulance ride-alongs, and helicopter ride-alongs for anyone interested.

 

[thirteen78]

Thanks everyone....a lot of great ideas posted. I've heard of some schools covering some disaster medicine/EMS workshops. Any good hands-on workshops for that?
Decontamination, collaborations with fire authority for extrications, etc?

thanks again!

W

 

[Jambi]

This may be a bit late but I thought i'd chime in anyways.

Also not sure if some of this stuff gets covered or not but what about familiarization (when they are indicated and how they are applied) with typically used EMS devices such as Backboarding with straps, KED, Traction splints (sager and hare) or review of typical pre-hospital protocols?