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Sat Oct 14 19:17:56 BST 2006

In a message dated 10/14/2006 1:08:11 PM Central Standard Time,  
alasdairwaite at doctors.org.uk writes:

However,  with limited study leave budgets and restricted time to maintain
external  education, devoting a large percentage of it to only ATLS may leave
you  deficient in other areas. If making it mandatory ensures funding  is
allocated and ring fenced for trauma training, then it could be a very  good
idea. However, unless you have unlimited (or ring fenced  additional)
resources, you would have to ensure that the ATLS was the best  and value for
money. You would need to prove it was better than other  courses e.g ATACC (I
have not done ATACC so cannot comment on it apart from  holding it up as an
example of a well regarded  alternative).

Another question would be, if the skills learned in ATLS are retained for  
'at least 6 years' (per the information in Chapter 1 of the book, and there have 
 not been significant updates in the material for over 8 years, why are we  
required to recertify every 4 years?

ck
Charles S. Krin DO FAAFP

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