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EMS Fellowship Reading List and Didactic Curriculum
July 2020-October 2020

EMS Fellows will complete reading assignments from the following textbook collection: Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight. This two-volume set is provided to the EMS fellow and is the official textbook from the National Association of EMS Physicians. Supplemental, targeted reading assignments will be distributed to the EMS fellow in addition to the required chapters. Supplemental reading assignments will consist of relevant journal articles, presentations, or publications in the area of interest.

*These links are intended for use by the AHN EMS Fellowship Program and are not for public download or distribution.*


July 7, 2020
Location: 30 Isabella Street (PCS Offices)
Time:1300-1600
  • History of EMS, Volume 1 Chapter 1
  • EMS System design and system models, Volume 2 Chapter 1
  • Principles of finance
  • Supplemental reading: "Accidental death and disability: the neglected disease of modern society" 

July 14, 2020 
Location: 30 Isabella Street
Time: 1300-1600 
  • EMS Provider Education
  • EMS Provider Wellness
  • EMS Scope of Practice/ Legislation
  • Supplemental reading: Evidence based guidelines for fatigue management
  • Supplemental reading: Stat Pearls: EMS Provider wellness
  • Supplemental reading: Dehydration and Thrombotic events in Firefighters

July 21, 2020: Mass Gathering and Disaster EMS 
Location: 
30 Isabella Street
Time: 1300-1600
  • ​​​State EMS Offices 
  • Volume 2, Chapter 28: Disaster preparedness and management
  • Volume 2, Chapter 29: The federal medical response to disasters
  • Volume 2, Chapter 30: Special considerations in disaster zones
  • Supplemental Reading:  NASEMSO ACEP Statement on Medical Direction

July 28, 2020: Mass Gathering and Disaster EMS (continued) 
Location: 
30 Isabella Street
Time: 1300-1600
  • Volume 2, Chapter 27: Mass gathering medical management
  • Volume 2, Chapter 26: Incident command
  • Volume 2, Chapter 31: Prehospital triage for mass casualties
  • 2011 Baltimore Grand Prix IndyCar Requirements (SUPPLEMENTAL) 
  • 2012 Baltimore Grand Prix Map (SUPPLEMENTAL)​
  • 2013 Baltimore Grand Prix AAR (SUPPLEMENTAL) 
  • Moonrise festival map (SUPPLEMENTAL)

August 4, 2020: Medical Oversight of EMS and Legal Issues 
Location: 30 Isabella Street
  • Volume 2, Chapter 8: Medical oversight of EMS systems
  • Volume 2, Chapter 16: Legal issues in EMS
  • Volume 2, Chapter 14: Political realities for the EMS medical director

August 11, 2020: Weapons of Mass Destruction / Radiation 
Location: 30 Isabella Steet
  • Volume 2, Chapter 32: Blast injuries
  • Volume 2, Chapter 38: Weapons of mass destruction
  • Volume 2, Chapter 37: Radiation injury
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: ACEP/CDC project on bombings and patterns of injury care
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: 2010 PDM Article on blast injuries and prehospital care
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: CDC resource page on PPE, triage, medical management

August 18, 2020: Chemical weapons, HAZMAT, and Communicable Disease
Location: 30 Isabella Street
  • Volume 2, Chapter 35: Medical support of HAZMAT
  • Volume 2, Chapter 36: Chemical properties of HAZMAT
  • Volume 1, Chapter 25: Infectious and communicable disease
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August 25, 2020: Toxicological considerations in EMS
Location:  
30 Isabella Street
  • Management of specific toxins
  • Toxicological principles
  • Crush injury


September 1, 2020: Occupational and behavioral health of EMS providers
Location: Zoom Meeting 
Time: 1300-1600
  • ​Body substance exposure and CDC guidelines / post exposure prophylaxis
  • Occupational health screening / medical surveillance
  • Prevention / intervention for stressful events
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Death by suicide, PEC 2018 
  • Board review pearls (summary) of Chapters 23-25
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING:  EBM Guidelines for Sleep in EMS

​September 8, 2020: EMS and Public Health, Introduction to Tactical EMS Medicine
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 1300-1600
  • EMS and Public Health Interface
  • EMS and Telehealth 
  • Tactical EMS Overview 

September 15, 2020: Legal Issues
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 1300-1600
  • Legal Issues
  • Due Process
  • Risk Management

September 22, 2020: Introduction to Mobile Integrated Health
Location: 30 Isabella


September 29, 2020: Regionalization of Care
  • Hospital diversion, regionalization of care 
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: EMS hospital bypass / diversion 
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Community CPR
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: STEMI regionalization
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Cardiac arrest regionalization 
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING:  ACEP Statement on Regionalization
  • ​SUPPLEMENTAL READING:  Stroke Systems of Care
October 6, 2020: Cardiac Arrest Care and Clinical Management
Location: Zoom Meeting 
  • Cardiac arrest systems of care
  • Cardiac arrest medical management, clinical issues
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Rebel EM Topics in Post Arrest Care 
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Post cardiac arrest care  

October 13, 2020: Cardiac Arrest Care, Continued
Location: Journal Club
  • Intra-Transport Cardiac Arrest

October 20, 2020
NO LECTURE


​October 27, 2020: Cardiac Arrest Care
Location:  Zoom Meeting
  • Cardiac arrest research
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Epinephrine in cardiac arrest, the Paramedic2 trial 
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Podcast with the author of Paramedic2 trial 
  • SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Double sequential defibrillation, a case series
  • SUPPLEMENTAL PODCAST:  REBEL EM
  • Termination of resuscitation 


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