Basics online prehospital care course

This article discusses the new online prehospital emergency care (PhEC) course, as created by BASICS Education (www.basics.org.uk) in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The sixteen module course, designed to prepare the immediate care practitioner to work safely and effectively in the prehospital environment, has been created in an e-learning format in order to enable people across the world to study all aspects of emergency care at their own pace, on their own time.

The British Association For Immediate Care (BASICS), founded in 1977, have held three day training courses for years in order to provide the PhEC (prehospital emergency care) qualification, both domestically and abroad; but the nature of in person training can place restrictions on many potential students, who may not have the time or availability to attend the in-depth schooling. Therefore, the decision was made that, as of April 2011, all lectures, along with a myriad of texts, web resources, video clips, as well as the module exams, would be placed on the BASICS Education website (BASICS, 2011).