We performed this study to evaluate the efficacy of emergency Medical Technicaian Education in a designated Facility. This article is the statistical analysis of which the results were obtained from the first trial of Emergency Medical Technician
Training program by EMS instructor at Emergency Department, Wallace Memorial Baptist hospital in Pusan from Jun 28 to July 10, 1993.
@ES The results were as follw :
@EN 1) On sexual distribution of students, male was 57.6% and female was 42.4%. On age distribution, between 30-39 year-old age was 64.7% average age was 33.5 year-old.
2) The geographic distribution of their address was 57.6% in Pusan, the remainders in Kyung-nam. Kyung-buk, and Che-ju in order.
3) The average bed size of the hospital in which they served was 375 beds.
4) The students wonking in Emergency Room was 42.4%, the other was 57.6%.
5) There were 53.3% students who have the license for nurse-aid and 46.7% registered nurses.
6) The period of students clinincal experience was for 101.8 months (about 8 years) in average, and their career in emergency room was for 38.1 months (about 3 years).
7) In the lecture, 91.1% of the students answered that they were content with the lecture qualities or that it was sufficient to learn.
In learning the skills, 73.5% of the students replied they were content with the quality ot teach the skills or it was sufficient one. Especially male students as a nurse-aid had the better results for the acquistition of the skills than the
female
registred nurses.
8) 57.6% answered their lecture time was short, 42.1% was proper. Most students were satisfied with the time length of their curriculum, but 26.5% of the students wanted to have more than 12 weeks of education couse. Most of them replied the
proper
size of the class must be below 20 students per class.
9) They answered the lectural time per a learning ltem was plenty in 72.0% of the students, not in 28.0%, and skill acquisition time per a learing item was appropriate for 41.4% of the participants, not for 58.6%. They answered the education
materials
were plenty in 85.3% and not in 11.8%.
10) The written tests showed normal distribution curve through the 4th written test and the results of the final written examination was 98.5 points in average.
The result of the skill testing showed a little bit lower distribution than the written tests.
11) There was very high correlation (co-efficient : 0.6234) between the 3rd and 4th written test test and relatively high correlation between the 3rd and final test and between 4th written test and the skill tests.
12) The female students got the higher points than the male in the written test, but no significant differences of the points in the skill testing according to the participants sex.
13) The registered nurses made the better points in the written test compared to the nurseaids, but statistically there was no significant difference in the skill testing.
To develop better education program for EMT the counterplans on the basis of above results can be established as belows.
1) It will be necessary to ensure professional people who aquired the sufficient training and experience for emergency treatment and to look for legal basis.
2) The sufficient training for EMT is wanted and both starting education and continuing education needs to be focused.
3) The education program for EMT has to be varied according to its charateristics of qualitifcation.
4) the special education progam for lecturer for EMT is needed.
5) Each Medical and Education organization should work on the entire education course achieve its standardization of time length, content, methods and level.
6) The positive attitude of goverment is needed to solve the problems which happen with the current system of Emergency Medicine.
In will be necessary to stipulato the items relevant to Emergency Medicine in the law.
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