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Emergency Medicine Residents in the Prehospital Setting: Does This Augment Training?
Prehospital Emergency Care · Added 12 May 2026
Five-year retrospective of a physician response vehicle staffed by EM residents found residents gained valuable exposure to adult and paediatric cardiac arrests, refusals, death pronouncements, and critical trauma, with an average of 28-79 encounters per resident.
- Study type
- Cohort
- Design
- Retrospective observational study of administrative records
- Participants
- 90 EM residents over 5 years
- Main finding
- Mean encounters per resident ranged from 28.7 (2018) to 79.2 (2022); residents managed 1,313 OHCA (34 paediatric), 1,048 refusals, 596 death pronouncements, 172 critical trauma patients and 2,053 on-line medical control consults.
- Caveat
- Single program, descriptive only; no educational outcome measures
- Bottom line
- Context only
Learning goal
Understand how prehospital clinical exposure during specialist training shapes readiness for complex out-of-hospital care.
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- Topic: Education & training
- Daily scan: 12 May 2026
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