This is a highly interactive two and a half days scenario-based course and Instructors facilitate interactive lecture discussion. Participants then proceed to ‘hands-on’ scenario-based skill stations and apply the principles of ATLS®. Course material includes a text book, ATLS Apps and a pretest questions for self-assessment.

Course Overview, Initial Assessment and Management, Airway and Ventilatory Management, Shock, Thoracic Trauma, Abdominal Trauma, Surgical Skills Practicum Discussion, Head Trauma, Spine and Spinal Cord Trauma, Musculoskeletal Trauma, Injury Due To Burn and Cold, Pediatric Trauma, Trauma in Elderly, Trauma in Women, Transfer to Definitive Care

Course Overview, Initial Assessment and Management, Airway and Ventilatory Management, Shock, Thoracic Trauma, Abdominal Trauma, Surgical Skills Practicum Discussion, Head Trauma, Spine and Spinal Cord Trauma, Musculoskeletal Trauma, Injury Due To Burn and Cold, Pediatric Trauma, Trauma in Elderly, Trauma in Women, Transfer to Definitive Care

This course is designed for Doctors only. Nurses, Paramedics, EMT’s and Coordinators can attend this course as auditors only.

It is important that participants come well prepared and studied the entire ATLS^® student manual to be familiar with all subjects of the course.

Successful completion of the course involves attending the entire course, passing a-40 MCQ Examinations (with minimum score of 70%) and passing all the skill stations.

Remember:  The ATLS^® Program is designed as a continuing medical education program and is not conducted on a pass/fail basis.

A successful candidate will receive a provider card and a certificate that remain valid for four years. Candidate will also receive Continuing Medical Education (CME) hours by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties and ACCME hours by the ACS.

Individuals who perform well and are observed by the ATLS^® faculty to possess a teaching capability will be invited to participate in the instructor course. Eligibility to participate is limited to physicians in countries where the ATLS^® program has been introduced and promulgated by the ACS.

The Instructor Course is divided into several sessions:

Introduction to the Instructor Course, Course Design, Principles of Learning, Introduction to Microteaching as a concept and tool in the ATLS^® Program, ATLS^® Interactive Lecture and related Microteaching Sessions, ATLS^® Group Discussion and Triage Scenario Orientation, How to Teach Skills and Related Practice Skills Teaching, Teaching Initial Assessment Skills Station and related practice Sessions, Role and Responsibilities of Instructors, and Closure, Affect and Summary.

Participants must be identified as potential candidates to attend an Instructor Course based on their performance and attitude during their participation in a Student Course.

Candidates applying to participate in an Instructor Course must successfully complete an approved ACS ATLS^® Student Course within 3 years of applying for the Instructor Course.

Instructor Course participants need to adequately prepare for the course.  In addition to their assignments (interactive lecture, skills-teaching and critiquing episodes), they must be assigned to carefully review related section and chapters of the manual.

Successful completion of the course involves attending the entire course, passing the Microteaching lecture, Teaching Skills Stations and Initial Assessment Skills Teaching Sessions.

A successful candidate will receive a letter of successful completion from the ATLS^® Chair/Regional Course Director that remains valid for one year. Candidate will also receive Continuing Medical Education (CME) hours by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialization and ACCME hours by the ACS.

Note: Official ATLS^® Instructor Card will not be received by the candidate until the Teaching Requirement Completion has been accomplished within one year after successful completion of the Instructor Course.