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Emergency Medicine (A part of Community Health Initiative) The combined departments of Emergency Medicine at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) affiliated with the Weil Cornell Medical School and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons have a special focus on International Emergency Medicine. The programme welcomes the participation of all levels of health-care providers, and is aimed at facilitating a rich exchange of emergency medicine practice, training and infrastructure among high and low income countries. First Aid and Basic Emergency Medicine has been conceived to train the primary health worker in the skills to recognise emergencies, stabilise them and triage them to an appropriate level of higher care. Training will be provided for:
As distances to trained Health Care pose challenge, training is being modified to include different levels of the community:
As a first step, two young Doctors from New York have been sent, each for three weeks in March and April, to prepare a region-specific Training module. After successful integration into the community, of the Community Health Initiative in Thane District, Maharashtra, the First Aid training programme will be incorporated as a component of the Lifeline Express Hospital train, and also the Lifeline Bus, and will provide basic life saving education to rural communities all over India. Download Emergency Medicine Manual - PDF (261 kb) :: ZIP (217 kb) |
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