Advanced Trauma and Sustainment Medical Specialist
For practitioners caring for everything from athletes’ foot to amputated arms…in a small team…with delayed evacuation…in the middle of nowhere…working out of 3 rolling hard cases…
When a a combat deployment or a paralytic disaster removes access to definitive care, the deployed clinician carries two jobs at once: sustain the health of a population for extended periods, and manage severe traumatic injuries, burns and medical under delayed evacuation conditions. The Advanced Trauma and Sustainment Medical Specialist program prepares physicians, physician associates, nurse practitioners, and their clinical care teams to do both.
The program combines the complete Community Sustainment Medical Specialist curriculum with additional advanced medical care training built specifically for licensed clinicians — extending sick-call and sustainment skills into advanced trauma and burn management, critical care on a shoe-string, prolonged casualty care decision-making, and clinical leadership of a deployed sustainment team.
WHAT YOU’LL MASTER
The complete Community Sustainment Medical Specialist curriculum
Advanced management of severe traumatic injury under delayed evacuation conditions
Burn assessment and management when transfer to a burn center is not available
Prolonged casualty care: clinical decision-making over hours and days, not minutes
Clinical leadership of a deployed sustainment team, including delegation and supervision of CSMS-trained personnel
WHO IT’S FOR
Physicians, physician associates, and nurse practitioners preparing to lead or staff sustainment medical operations as well as medics, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who will work with the licensed practitioners on small care teams.
THE COURSE AT A GLANCE
100 hours · hybrid: online asynchronous didactic + in-person laboratory
Includes the full CSMS curriculum plus clinician-level advanced medical care modules
In-person labs at your location or at sites in and around Bangor, Maine
SUGGESTED PAIRINGS
Maximize a single training trip by combining courses:
ATSMS + RESONATE: While ATSMS contains an introduction to POCUS, the addition of the RESONATE course vastly expands the student’s critical care skills for prolonged casualty management.
ASTMS + Ventilator Management for Critical Patients: In the setting of severe trauma and medical illness, 2-3 days of BVM ventilation is a set-up for poor outcomes. Master the ventilator, manage the whole patient.
ASTMS + RESONATE + Ventilator Management for Critical Patients: A week of hands on training that will take your clinical care to a whole new level.
CME & CEH ACCREDITATION
ACCME and Maine EMS CEH Accreditation pending.
PRICING
Our instructional philosophy is simple: you’re not buying a course, you’re buying a training program. When you take an F2L training, you get your initial training to achieve mastery and a comprehensive training program designed to maintain your skills once you leave the classroom.
Being able to practice your learning means that you need to have both a longitudinal training program and the equipment in hand to execute that program. Without that equipment, your skills will decay.
Given that, then only real question for any student in deciding what tier of each class to take is what equipment you need to execute the training plan after the class. The class tiers are set up as follows:
Tier 1 - The individual student who needs it all. Each student will leave the classroom with all of the training equipment necessary to perform all the longitudinal training exercises on their own in additional to the longitudinal training program content.
Tier 2 - The team who needs it all. If you work with a team that only needs a single set of training gear for a specific number of students, this is the tier for you. The courses are priced for a specific number of students sharing one set of training gear. If you would like a different ratio of students to sets of training gear, contact us for pricing.
Tier 3 - For those who already have it all. If you have the training gear already, this tier gives you the initial class and the longitudinal training program content; you bring your own training gear to the exercises.
ATCMS Pricing
Tier 1 - Contact us for current pricing
Tier 2 - Team of 3 students - Contact us for current pricing
Tier 3 - Contact us for current pricing
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Bring This Course to Your Team
Courses are scheduled on demand and delivered at your location or in Bangor, Maine.