Each term, EMC presents the following activities for the benefit of its members. Want to get updates of when activity times/locations are announced? Join the mailing list, and/or check the front page of this site.

Airway (Intubation) Workshop:
Experienced proctors lecture/demonstrate various emergency airway techniques and devices (including oral/nasal intubation, LMA’s, Combitubes, etc.), followed by members practicing intubation on an Airway Trainer.

IV Insertion Workshop:
Members are taught proper IV insertion technique by experienced proctors. Members first practice on a plasticized dummy arm, and then on human volunteers (each other).

Phlebotomy Workshop:
Same as the IV insertion workshop, except members learn the proper method of collecting a blood sample.



Trauma Interactive Workshop:
An interactive, scenario-based workshop where members get to apply knowledge they have acquired in their basic science years to real-life emergent clinical problems. Members play the part of physician in diagnosing and managing a variety of Emergency Department scenarios.

EMC/AMSA Health Fair:
Each term EMC partners with AMSA (the American Medical Student Association) to conduct screening clinics in varying areas of Grenada. At each Health Fair, Grenadians have their history, vital signs, and visual/auditory acuity taken by medical student volunteers, as well as screening for diabetes and sickle cell disease. Advanced students participate in physicals. The patients screened at the health fair are reviewed by a local physician, who can refer them to their office, or the General Hospital, for further care, if necessary.

Interactive Emergency Medicine – Joe Feldman, MD and Kevin Hewitt, MD:
Dr. Feldman is the Director of Emergency Medicine at a NJ hospital (and an SGU alumnus), and Dr. Hewitt is an attending in Emergency Medicine at the same hospital. They present Interactive Emergency Medicine each term, and it is a perennial favorite. Members are chosen from the audience to play the part of the physician and the patient in a realistic case scenario that includes arrival, interview, physical diagnosis, diagnostic investigations, diagnosis, and treatment just as it happens in the ED. Audience members are encouraged to participate and assist their “physician colleague.” Usually, a short talk on successfully obtaining a residency in Emergency Medicine follows.

Other lectures depending on availability/interest:
Varies with the Visting Professors that are in Grenada each term. This term, Dr. Clinton (Chief of EM at Hennepin County Medical Center/University of Minn. School of Medicine, as well as former EM residency Program Director) will be lecturing on “Interesting and Unusual Emergency Medicine Cases,” as well as discussing EM residencies/matching. We are also trying to arrange panel discussions covering hot topics in medicine. Have a suggestion for something that you’d like to hear about that is Emergency Medicine related, or better yet, something you want to lecture on? Please contact us.

EMC Fundraiser (Party):
The goal of these events is to raise money to improve emergency care in Grenada. Our aim this term is to donate AED’s (Automatic External Defibrillators) to the Grenada Fire Department to be used in medical first response.