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Florida Emergency Medicine
Foundation/Emergency Medicine Learning & Resource Center awarded
$460,000 Grant to expand Emergency Medicine Education/Training
Orlando, FL -- April 14, 2004
-- The Florida Emergency Medicine
Foundation (FEMF) was selected to receive a $460,000 grant
from the State of Florida/Department of Health to
develop a mobile simulation lab for broad based education and
training of rural emergency medicine agency and hospital personnel.
The lab will be designed and
built to provide the most optimal platform for high tech simulation
training.....on wheels.
"We plan to travel across the
state and eventually beyond to bring quality simulation based
education and training to communities where access to this type of
platform is not available" states John
Todaro, Director of the FEMF / EMLRC. The simulation lab is just
one of the expanding programs provided by the Emergency Medicine
Learning and Resource Center.
The mobile lab will consist of
patient simulators, computer networks, and real-life patient care
areas. Through a cooperative agreement with rural health care
providers, the simulation lab will be mobilized with a primary
instructor and adjunct faculty consisting of paramedics, EMTs,
nurses and physicians. “The simulation lab will provide
opportunities to network with other educational institutions and to
identify additional education and training offered through the
EMLRC” stated Dr. David Seaberg, member of the EMLRC Board of
Directors.
The simulation vehicle will be
utilized in conjunction with other health care initiatives as well
as for support and response to a mass casualty event. Plans are to
have the simulation lab built and classes underway by Summer 2005.
The Emergency Medicine
Learning & Resource Center (EMLRC) is a not-for-profit
organization dedicated to promoting and advancing emergency
medicine, disaster management, prehospital emergency care and public
health through the provision of educational and research programs.
For further information contact:
Beth Brunner, Chief Executive Officer
John Todaro, Director/Chief Operating Officer
Emergency Medicine Learning & Resource Center
3717 South Conway Road
Orlando, FL 32812-7607
Phone: 800-766-6335
Email: bbrunner@emlrc.org
Email: jtodaro@emlrc.org
Internet: www.emlrc.org
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