FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas –
The Critical Care Flight Paramedic Program at the U.S. Army
Medical Department Center and School, U.S. Army Health Readiness Center of Excellence
at Fort Sam Houston recently hosted their second pilot course for Soldiers
wanting to become a national registered paramedic.
The course ran from Sept. 14-25 and was held in Willis Hall,
AMEDDC&S, HRCoE.
The course consisted of 100 hours over a two-week period,
during which students participated in lectures on various critical care topics
from subject matter experts and practiced critical care scenarios in the
Training Mobile Transport Lab, which is a UH-60 Blackhawk platform designed to
replicate combat conditions.
Hands-on training included performing focused assessment
with sonography for trauma exams, military
working dog assessments and treatment at veterinary sciences, advanced airway
lab and an anatomy lab with synthetic cadavers.
The course provided flight medics with continuing education
units needed to recertify as a national registered paramedic and half the
amount needed to recertify the Flight Paramedic-Certification through the Board
of Critical Care of Transport Paramedics.