Committee on Trauma Presents

Affectin ATLS

Educator

Lesson 17:

Affect and Course Conclusion

• Teaching the ATLS course is not something you do to students; it is something you do with them.

• As a role model demonstrating commitment to ATLS, you are teaching knowledge, skills and affect.

Instructor Attributes

Education

Expertise

Enthusiasm

Evangelism

Engagement

Experience

Entertainment

Enhancement

Energy

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Enthusiasm

Teamwork

Passion forand belief in the program

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Commitmentand dedication

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Closure, Affect and Summary

• If the instructor wants students to show commitment to ATLS, the instructor must demonstrate it.

• If the instructor values ATLS, there is a greater possibility that the student will value and learn ATLS.

ATLS Connections

• When teaching takes place, a special human connections evolves, a connection of many dimensions that simultaneously effects the learner and the teacher.

• This connection invites both the teacher and the learner to participate in a unique social context, with its special hierarchies, roles and responsibilities.

• ATLS works, because it is greater than the sum of its parts.

ATLS has its origins in the United States in 1976, when James K. Styner, an orthopedic surgeon piloting a light aircraft, crashed his plane into a field in Nebraska. His wife Charlene was killed instantly and three of his four

children, Richard, Randy, and Kim sustained critical injuries. His son Chris suffered a broken arm. He carried out the initial triage of his children at the crash site. Dr. Styner had to flag down a car to transport him to the

nearest hospital; upon arrival, he found it closed. Even once the hospital was opened and a doctor called in, he found that the emergency care provided at the small regional hospital where they were treated was

inadequate and inappropriate."When I can provide better care in the field with limited resources than my children and I received at the

primary facility, there is something wrong with the system and the system has to be changed."

Dr. James K Styner and his colleague Paul 'Skip' Collicott, with assistance from advanced cardiac life support personnel and the Lincoln Medical Education

Foundation, produced the initial ATLS course which was held in 1978 in Auburn, Nebraska.

Styner himself recently recertified as an ATLS instructor, taking his Instructor Candidate course in the UK and then in the Netherlands.

The Result of ATLS Connections and Commitments

• Over 500,000 doctors have been trained in 46 countries and more than 25,000 courses have been taught.• You are now part of those

commitments and connections.

Summary

● ATLS teaching involves not only knowledge and skills, but also attitudes and emotions.

● The instructor must be a role model in demonstrating commitment to ATLS.