Adaptive Clinical Practice

If you’re new to humanitarian emergencies, you’ll learn how to adapt your current experience to a new and challenging environment. You’ll develop the skills you need to manage change with minimal impact to yourself or others. If you do have some humanitarian experience, this course will introduce you to working within an Emergency Medical Team (EMT). You need to understand standard operating procedures and management structures, and become familiar with EMT equipment.

By undertaking this course:

• You’ll gain a deeper awareness of the different contexts and environments you could face on a deployment
• You’ll develop skills to help you adapt your mind-set
• You’ll learn about working with more limited resources
• You’ll have practice in working through some challenging situations.

This course is online and you undertake it at your own pace. You’ll be given a scenario which follows the story of a healthcare professional. By answering questions and moving through a set of situations, you’ll follow their journey and encounter various points where you’ll have to make a decision based on the information available. You’ll be able to work through the scenario as many times as you like. It should take around one hour depending on your prior experience and current training needs.

You’ll already have been accepted onto UK-Med’s Register and will have completed the induction and mandatory courses. You’ll be interested in deploying with UK-Med to a humanitarian emergency. The course is for practitioners from a wide range of clinical backgrounds. The majority of the participants will have little to no humanitarian experience. Some participants will have humanitarian experience but will be new to working within an Emergency Medical Team.

The key themes and skills you’ll learn about in the Adaptive Clinical Practice Course are:

• Identifying and understanding the differences between your usual working environment and a humanitarian response with EMT involvement
• Gaining knowledge through the scenario and practising applying that knowledge in a response situation
• Improving adaptability specifically in a response situation
• How to approach cultural and social differences with understanding and how to compromise where necessary.