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Oct. 15—Staff report Ohio University Southern, in partnership with Scioto County Aspire, is introducing two new free training programs designed to enhance professional development in the fields ...
The NREMT offers a national certification based on the NHTSA National Standard curriculum for the levels of EMR, EMT, Advanced EMT and Paramedic. [2] Individual states are allowed to use NREMT certification as part of their certification process, but are not required to.
Over a dozen medical technologist professional associations opposed the certification including the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) and American Medical Technologists (AMT). [ 4 ] [ 3 ] Opposition was in part due to the lack of educational requirements, another competing certification in a crowded field, and a lack of follow-up ...
Basic life support (BLS) is a level of medical care which is used for patients with life-threatening condition of cardiac arrest until they can be given full medical care by advanced life support providers (paramedics, nurses, physicians or any trained general personnel).
The health center was founded as St. Joseph's Hospital in 1903 by the Nazareth Convent and Academy in Concordia (run by the Sisters of St. Joseph). [1] In 1995, ownership was transferred from the Sisters of St. Joseph to Salina Regional Health Center (Salina, Kansas), and the name was then changed to the Cloud County Health Center. [2]
All three forces remain in rigorous, tri-service training for 10 months prior to returning to their individual services. The training is held at Fort Sam Houston and is a part of the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC).The first METC BMET class started on August 4, 2010, and the last Sheppard class graduated on January 14, 2011. [16]
Since many certification boards have begun requiring periodic re-examination, critics in newspapers such as The New York Times have decried board certification exams as being "its own industry", costing doctors thousands of dollars each time and serving to enrich testing and prep companies rather than improving the quality of the profession. [14]
Rehabilitation is a relatively new medical specialty, becoming certified as such in 1947. [6] Immediately following World War II, which had a significant impact on the specialty of rehabilitation, General Omar Bradley, the head the Veterans Administration, recruited Dr. Paul Magnuson, [7] a U.S. Army orthopaedic surgeon, who created the infrastructure for the VA to provide rehabilitation for ...