EIM and Sports Medicine: The EIM Emergency Response Course

EIM will be leading the way in evidence-based Sports Medicine and will launch this effort by offering the Emergency Response Course, taught by Dr. Teresa Schuemann. The course is a pre-requisite for our June 2010 Sports Medicine Residency Cohort (yes, you read correctly....Sports Medicine Residency,  more details will be coming soon from Dr. Schuemann, who is serving as Program Director,  but put it on your calendars: the EIM Sports Medicine Residency will roll-out its first cohort this June!) However, we are opening enrollment to the EIM Emergency Response Course to all interested therapists.

This course integrates the objectives set forth by the American Red Cross and the Department of Transportation for Emergency Response and is designed specifically for the physical therapist seeking to provide athletic venue coverage and respond appropriately to acute injury.  The class includes instruction and discussion of assessment, management and prevention of cardio-respiratory emergencies, musculoskeletal injury, environmental injuries and medical emergencies such as shock or diabetic reactions, brain injury and spinal injury.    An intensive laboratory weekend is included. This course fulfills the requirements for a physical therapist to be eligible for Sports Physical Therapy Residency Programs and submission of application for the ABPTS- SCS examination.   

Successful completion of both written and practical examinations will be required for this course.  The final practical examination will include successful completion of the following: bleeding control and shock management, trauma victim assessment and management, airway insertion and suction, management of injuries to soft tissue and skeletal structures and management of head, neck and back injuries.  Following successful completion of the course, the participant will be awarded a First Responder Certification (good for 3 years) and a CPR/AED usage for the Professional Rescuer Certification (good for 2 years).

 We look forward to taking sports medicine to the next level in 2010 -- and it all starts with this course!

Thanks!  Rob Wainner