ECTS - PWSZ im. Witelona w Legnicy

The Witelon University of Applied Sciences in Legnica – Field: Medical emergency rescue
Field: Medical emeregency rescue
The graduate of three-year first-level course of the Emergency medicine for full-time students
receives the professional title of licencjat (the equivalent of Bachelor's degree). The graduate
possesses the general knowledge from the range of social sciences and the specialist knowledge and
skills from the range of medical sciences, in this particularly within the range of medical rescue-acts
in states of the sudden threat of the health and the life at adult and children. The graduate knows the
foreign language on level of the proficiency B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference
for Languages of the Council of Europe, can use specialist language from the range of social and
medical sciences. The graduate is prepared to undertake the second-level studies, and also to
continuing education in the system of the improvement of medical rescuers (paramedics) in
compliance with regulations obligatory in Poland.
As the result of the education the graduate can:
use the knowledge from the range of medical and social sciences during the performing of
professional acts
make an estimation of the state of health persons in case of the sudden hazard to health and
undertake the medical rescue procedures
protect persons being found in site of the event, and to take action preventing enlargement of
the death toll and the degradation of the environment
communicate with the person in the state of the sudden hazard to health and to give her
psychical support , and also to communicate with the family of the patient and with other
participants of the event
predict behaviors of persons embraced with the emergency situation in order to prevent the
occurrence of the panic,
arrange the order of performing rescue procedures to victims
participate in the evacuation of people from threatened region,
perform medical rescue-acts in case of disasters, damages and accidents,
diagnose states of the black-out, estimate its degrees, protect vital functions of unconscious
persons using direct methods and with the use of the specialist equipment,
perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation using direct methods and with the use of the
specialist equipment and medicines in the medical life-saving in compliance with authorized
in the medical rescue procedures, and also to give other health services to persons in sudden
states,
fulfill the life-saving medical supervision over victims and ill in site of the event and during
the transport
keep and archive records of performed medical services
co-work with members of the medical rescue team and with other workers of the health
protection, and also to cooperate and to coordinate medical activities with other emergency
services,
organize and to lead training courses of the first-aid, the qualified first-aid and medical
rescue-acts
characterize by the resistance on the stress, to be in good shape, to be able to make prompt
and proper decisions on the site of the event,
understand basic problems of the public health systems functioning and concerning the
health care policy in Poland and other countries of the European Union , and also the sort
and the degree of biological, environmental, demographic, social and psychological threats
of the health of the community of people,
ECTS Course Catalogue 2010/2011
793