Virginia CommonWealth University (VCU) Center for Trauma and Critical Care Education (CTCCE)

The Paramedic Program began in 1980 on the Medical College of Virginia campus (MCV) of VCU under the Medical Direction of Dr. Kimball Maull, then the director of emergency medical services and trauma for MCV Hospitals. The program initially began as an outreach program in the Department of Surgery/Trauma Program to provide Paramedic education to the largely volunteer EMS community in the central Virginia region. The program was the first paramedic program in the central Virginia region and the first program in the Commonwealth affiliated with an academic medical center and Level I trauma center. The program began as a two-phase program with the first phase culminating in Virginia EMT-Cardiac and the second phase resulted in the student’s eligibility to sit for the National Registry EMT-Paramedic examination. Over the past thirty years, more than 1000 students have completed the VCU program.

Goals:
Theitr primary GOALS are to prepare competent entry-level Paramedics in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains with or without exit points at the Advanced Emergency Medical Technician and/or Emergency Medical Technician, and/or Emergency Medical Responder levels.

Upon completion of the Program the student will be able to:
• Recognize, assess and safely manage the scene of a medical emergency incident (be the team leader).
• Document and communicate the relevant patient information to the receiving facility.
• Assess and initiate appropriate medical care for an adult, pediatric or geriatric patient of a medical or traumatic emergency under regional protocols or online medical control.
• Demonstrate the ability to reassess and modify the patient’s treatment as needed by changes in the patient’s condition.
• Select the appropriate receiving facility.
• Document in writing the assessment and treatment of patients.