Medical students at LTC and in pre-hospital care: a structured programme in pre-hospital emergency medicine for medical undergraduates
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Introduction Pre-hospital emergency medicine is an emerging subspecialty in which medical undergraduates traditionally often receive little or no formal training. This article describes one academic programme at a London medical school, which comprises of a partnership between the school, the local ambulance and the air ambulance service. It is believed that this programme is unique in its structure and execution. Previously published material highlights only shorter courses or elective-based programmes. Students from the Pre-hospital Care Programme (PCP) assisted and participated in a pre-hospital student event which took place on the first student day of the London Trauma Conference in June 2011.
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