Overview
This unit will allow you to synthesise your knowledge of common traumatic and environmental emergencies, incorporating contemporary evidence-based knowledge into new critical care trauma treatment paradigms. In addition, you will be able to apply critical care paramedic skills and interventions to the management of traumatic and environmental emergencies and to exercise leadership and engage in teamwork within trauma management systems.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Co-requisitesPMSC20002 Advanced Clinical Skills ApplicationPMSC20005 Advanced Assessment, Diagnostic Interpretation and Management
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Group and individual discussion at residential school.
The students expressed that they really enjoyed the leadership and communication challenge games.
Continue with the challenge games as part of the introduction period at the start of residential school. This helps bond the full time and part time students who haven't met until this point.
Feedback from Group and individual discussion at residential school.
The Multiple Casualty Scenario was a highlight.
Keep the last day of their residential school experience as a Multiple Casualty Day. This day enables students to apply all the content learnt throughout the course to high-fidelity complex cases.
Feedback from Group and individual discussion at residential school.
They expressed that the group debrief was excellent, as they got to hear about the learning points from all the cases involved in the multicausality scenario.
A detailed group debrief was essential, allowing each case to be explored thoroughly and giving students the opportunity to articulate their individual key learning points. This approach ensured that all students were able to maximise the experience by learning not only from their own scenario but from every case undertaken throughout the day. We will continue to implement this method in future iterations of the unit.