Rural Critical Care combined with a rural locum service
The SRPC will be offering a combined CME and locum service. Here's how it works:
CME -- Rural doctors will give 1 or 2 of the following field-tested, hands-on workshops (approx. 2 hours) to a maximum of 10 doctors/nurses per session in your community. Several sessions can be given for any 1 trip. All hand-outs, manuals, and equipment (except respirators) will be provided by the SRPC. Outside funding will cover travel expenses and any honorarium. You provide accommodations.
Workshops: chest tubes, paracentesis, peritoneal lavage; pediatric crises (seizures, trauma, airway obstruction); central lines, pacemakers, arterial lines; rapid sequence induction and when intubation fails; ventilators (using ventilators in place); radiology (radiology locum available); ECG (cardiology consults available); transport issues.
Locum -- At the same time, these rural doctor-teachers are prepared to do short-term locums in your office, clinic or emergency room, weekends and nights included. Licensing fees will be covered by the SRPC.
Cost: $50.00/SRPC member, $100.00/non-SRPC member
We plan to do 3 or 4 pilot runs in the fall and expand as needed. For more information contact:
Keith MacLellan, MD
PO Box 609
Shawville QC
J0X 2Y0
tel and fax 819 647-2845.
