Why Choose a Sports ER Training Course?

  • high-quality education and training devised to address the specific training needs of medical practitioners, allied health and care professionals and non-medical individuals working in sports environments from elite to community level 

  • robust, coherent, fit-for-purpose programmes that embrace evidence-based guidelines and the relevant competencies and standards to ensure participants are equipped with the fundamental knowledge, core skills, understanding and behaviours to recognise, assess and effectively manage acute, sports-related, life-threatening medical conditions and serious musculoskeletal injuries sustained by athletes of all age groups

  • practical interactive courses that promote competency, confidence-building and inter-disciplinary teamwork

  • supportive, learner-centred, knowledge-building and skill-building environments 

  • training with a strong focus on a multi-disciplinary team approach and on developing the non-technical skills teamwork and communication of team leaders and a team members with the aim of improving outcomes for athletes 

  • prepares individuals to be autonomous practitioners

  • delivery by specialised credible instructors who understand/work/have worked in sport

  • courses that are founded upon the application of evidence-based medicine, and in accordance with contemporaneous protocols and guidelines from professional bodies, e.g. Resuscitation Council (UK), and pragmatic best-practice based on the knowledge and experience of those working within elite sport

  • bespoke course for delivery at a client’s site

  • content adaptable to reflect differing (i) sports, e.g. football and ice hockey, (ii) prevailing international practice, e.g. use of a long board or scoop stretcher for spinal injury management, and (iii) regionally differing presentations, e.g. hypothermia or heat-related illness

  • direct, one-point-of-contact (email / phone) course booking and participant registration 

  • certification

Course Endorsement 

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The ‘Advanced Plus’, ‘Advanced’ and ‘Intermediate’ courses are endorsed by the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care (FPHC) of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) - a marque of educational quality which verifies the courses comply with the teaching and educational standards and quality assurance systems of the ‘Faculty’. Course participants can have confidence that endorsement by such an eminent body is only granted after thorough scrutiny.