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Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Course

Details:
The Advanced Trauma Life Support® (ATLS) Provider course is an American College of Surgeons programme developed by clinicians and educators to teach the principles of early trauma management.
The course was developed nearly 30 years ago and has been adopted in over 40 countries worldwide. It is an intensive course intended to teach a simple, systematic approach to the management of trauma patients through interactive tutorials, skills teaching and simulated patient management scenarios.

The course is taught by clinicians who are experienced in trauma care and who have themselves undergone both the ATLS® Provider Course but also a special educational course to optimise their teaching skills. Each student will have the benefit of a mentor and the faculty will be present throughout the course to help with any queries.

Candidates receive an ATLS® manual which is essential pre-course reading and complete a pre-course MCQ. The course itself is a highly interactive course combining lectures, discussions, interactive tutorials, skills teaching and simulated patient management scenarios (moulage). There are continual assessments throughout the course.

Level:

The Course is intended for doctors who will be involved in trauma care. Doctors in the specialties of Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesia, General Surgery, Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery are particularly suitable for this training. Doctors in other specialties or General Practice may be considered for the course provided they have a significant current or future exposure to victims of polytrauma.

Duration: 2 ½ days Course

Fee: €875.00

Venues: From 1st January 2010, ATLS® Provider courses are held in Regional Course Centres which are:

Drogheda (North East)
Sligo (North West)
Limerick (Mid West)
Cork (South)
Kilkenny (South East)
Beaumont (East)

A list of Regional Course Centres, their course dates and contact details is here.

Applications should be made centrally to the National ATLS® Co-ordinator on the Application Form .

For all general ATLS® enquiries, please contact the National ATLS® course administrator:

ATLS® National Co-ordinator
Surgical Training Office
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
123 St Stephen's Green
Dublin 2

Tel. No. 353 1 402 2166
Fax No 353 1 402 2459
Email: nationalatlscoordinator@rcsi.ie

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