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  • 3.00 Credits

    This is an intensive course covering the theoretical background and essential skills for responding to emergencies and rescues in a moving water environment. Explore swiftwater rescue professional avenues and the evidence basis for modern rescue techniques. Technical rescue skills and wilderness medical consideration are integrated in scenarios where students are challenged to work on individual skills while simultaneously demanding coordinated teamwork. Classroom theory is balanced with field practice.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides intensive training in rope rescue fundamentals. Applies wilderness medicine to technical rescue. Covers skills used in mountain, industrial and confined space rescue. Reviewing current research and the evidence basis for techniques is an underlying principle throughout the course. Skills are practiced in realistic scenarios. Students must have a current Wilderness First Responder of higher wilderness medicine certification; experience with rock climbing or other exposed rope work is recommended.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course picks up with advanced topics where the High-Angle Rescue Techniques and Theory (H EDU 4520) class ended. Students will be challenged to not only perform advanced techniques but also to problem solve high-end technical challenges. There will be (8) two-hour classroom sessions (Wednesdays 2-4, Annex 2102) and (7) six-hour field sessions (Fridays 11 AM-5PM, locations TBA) during the second session of the semester. Students must complete of High-Angle Rescue Techniques. Students must also At least 18 years old, or a matriculated student at the University of Utah Prerequisites: "C-" or better in H EDU 4520.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Health Practicum serves as the first in a year-long capstone experience designed to give students practice with program planning and implementation of a health promotion and education intervention in the community for a target population. Prerequisites: "C-" or better in (H EDU 4200 AND H EDU 4210 AND H EDU 4300 AND H EDU 4360) AND Full Major status in Health and Kinesiology.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Health Practicum serves as the first in a year-long capstone experience designed to give students practice with program planning and implementation of a health promotion and education intervention in the community for a target population. HEDU 4600 received a service-learning designation from University of Utah and therefore, follows specific guidelines related to service-learning courses. Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in H EDU 4600 AND Full Major status in Health and Kinesiology.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Anatomy and physiology focusing on the needs of health educators and EMS professionals. This course can serve as a prerequisite for paramedic programs.
  • 4.00 Credits

    H EDU 4660 is an interactive case study approach to the understanding, retention and application of basic anatomy and physiology principles as they relate to the pre-hospital provider. The class will be more than memorization of facts. This course will allow the student to compare the structure and form of the human body and how it normally functions to how it performs when under disease or traumatic conditions. Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in ((H EDU 4650 OR BIOL 2420) AND H EDU 5950) OR Instructor Consent
  • 2.00 Credits

    Content provides detailed coverage of sectional anatomy and procedures for CT imaging. Procedures include, but are not limited to, indications, patient education, preparation, orientation and positioning, patient history and assessment, contrast media usage, scout image, selectable scan parameters, filming and archiving of the images. CT anatomy will be identified and studies in axial, sagittal, coronal and 3D planes. CT procedures will be taught for differentiation of specific structures and pathology. CT images studied will be reviewed for quality, anatomy and pathology. Prerequisites: Instructor Consent.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Clinical experience in health care integrates didactic learning into practical settings at approved clinical sites. Students complete 315 contact hours attending 24-32 hours a week progressing through a competency based clinical experience program in computerized tomography. The student is required to demonstrate the ability to perform a minimum of 25 out of the 50 ARRT required CT procedures. Experiences in trauma, biopsies, post-processing and heart imaging will be available. Prerequisites: Instructor Consent.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Content is designed to impart an understanding of the physical principles and instrumentation involved in computerized tomography. Physics concepts covered include characteristics of x-rays, CT beam attenuation, linear attenuation coefficients, tissue characteristics and Hounsfield numbers. CT image processing and display will be examined from data acquisition through postprocessing and archiving and patient factors related to other elements affecting image quality will be discussed. Prerequisites: Instructor Consent.