POSTER PRESENTATION 1: Emergency Medical Services/Disaster Medicine/Public Health : PS1-67 ; Assessment after The Emergency Medical Education in PCU in Avissawella, Sri - Lanka = POSTER PRESENTATION 1: Emergency Medical Services/Disaster Medicine/Public Health : PS1-67 ; Assessment after The Emergency Medical Education in PCU in Avissawella, Sri - Lanka

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The improvement of emergency medical services by providing the educational programs that will improve the emergency medical knowledge and technique as it is needed. In September 25th, 2013, the Korean emergency medicine physicians were dispatched to the Preliminary Care Unit in Avssawella, Sri-Lanka for three days to provide three courses of education programs consist of airway management, wound management, and an ultrasound education for medical personnel. After six months, we have revisit the Preliminary Care Unit to examine through questionnaire and in-depth interview for the educational effectiveness, actual application of these knowledge in the clinical care situation and change in providing the medical service. Although there was limitation of participant loss due to moving to different sector of hospitals. But, from the information gathered from surveys and interviews have shown that maintenance of the educational contents and applying the knowledge to clinical application was successful to meet the final goal of these educational training programs. 6 out of 19 participants from the ultrasonography education, 9 out of 24 participants from the airway management and 12 out of 48 participants from the wound management program have responded to follow up progress result and have shown overall satisfactory scores range from 4.82 to 4.86 points out of 5 points from the education programs. The overall data have shown that education program was successful to applying it to real clinical bases and it will improve the quality of emergency services by improving their emergency medical knowledge and technique.