Palmetto health emergency medicine program

Residents interface with Richland County EMS by riding with ground units and giving lectures to paramedics on emergency medicine topics. Educational activities include exercises in care-under-fire, medical threat assessment, command responsibility, and care of the team. The Children's Emergency Center occupies more than 8, square feet of space within the emergency department and cares for the more than 30, patients each year.

Within the emergency department are two spacious, state-of-the-art trauma resuscitation bays where more than major trauma admissions are seen each year. The EM residents actively participate in all trauma resuscitations by providing airway management and by rotating on the trauma service during two months of their training. Approximately twenty percent of trauma admissions are for penetrating injuries.

The Emergency Department at Palmetto Health Richland has been a national leader in emergency ultrasound education since There currently are seven ultrasound systems in the department exclusively for EM resident and attending use. Residents are provided with a state-of-the-art, web-based education system on common and novel uses of ultrasound in emergency medicine settings. All residents complete hundreds of exams in an expanding number of uses.

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Skip to main content. Contact us Call or drop us a line. A Collaboration with the Palmetto Health Emergency Medicine Residency Program Introduction Sea Mercy is a not-for-profit organization founded in with the goal of bringing free health care to the remote islands of the South Pacific. Description Volunteering with Sea Mercy is a challenging educational experience. Objectives 1. Requirements 1. Cost All of your expenses are tax-deductible. What to Expect Expect the unexpected at every stop.

Application Information Links to download the Application and program brochures are available at the bottom of this page. Tropical Medicine Flyer. Sea Mercy Brochure Volunteer Registration Volunteering has never been this much fun or rewarding! PGY 2 residents also one elective rotation.

Residents in their third program year have eleven emergency medicine rotations and six weeks of elective time. Popular elective rotations include global health, HBO, and wilderness medicine. Sea Mercy reaches the smallest islands, some of which have as few as 40 people living on them.

During our 2 weeks, we lived on Rebelle , a foot catamaran sailboat captained by Xavier and his wife Amanda. We flew into Tongatapu, the capital island of Tonga, where we met up with Xavier and Amanda in the Harbor.

We spent the next 3 days doing clinics on 3 different islands with populations ranging from about 40 up to After these 3 clinic days, a tropical depression came through with winds up to 40mph. We found the best anchorage possible to ride out the storm and spent the next 3 days rocking in the wind and waves and trying not to get too seasick. The weather cleared in time for us to resume our regular clinic schedule the following week, and we visited 4 different islands with similar small populations.

On each island, we were greeted with a welcoming committee to help us ashore and walk us to the clinic. After each clinic was over, the villagers treated us to a gourmet meal of fresh caught fish, yams, coconut, pork, and lobster. We found the polynesian culture to be incredibly generous and cheerful; the people had very little sense of material possession and would give you anything they had.

They could also find humor in any situation and have a contagious laugh.