1. Affect in ATLS Lesson 17: Committee on Trauma Presents Educator 17-1
Title Slide
Educator

2. Affect and Course Conclusion
Teaching the ATLS course is not something you do to students; it is something you do with them.
As a role model demonstrating commitment to ATLS, you are teaching knowledge, skills and affect.

3. Instructor Attributes
Education
Expertise
Enthusiasm
Evangelism
Engagement
Experience
Entertainment
Enhancement
Energy
R-9 Instructor Attributes: The 9 Es of ATLS Education
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4. Affect! Philosophies Principles Support for ATLS Teamwork Passion for
and belief in the program
Enthusiasm
R-10 Importance of Affect
The graphics appear in the following order: (1) Teamwork strips down from the top of the screen; (2) support for the ATLS Program and its principles and philosophies dissolves in the center of the screen; (3) enthusiasm flies up from the bottom left-hand corner; (4) passion for and belief in the program stretches from left to right; and (5) commitment and dedication crawls up from the bottom center of the screen. Each illustration disappears with the next mouse click.
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Commitment
and dedication
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5. Learning Retention 10%  30%  20%  © ACS R-5 Learning Retention
This slide and the next slide illustrate and support the educational design of the ATLS Program. If one only reads, approximately 10% of what is read is retained. If one only listens, approximately 20% of what is heard is retained. If one only observes, watches, or sees, approximately 30% of what is seen is retained.
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6. Learning Retention     50% 90% Do Say  70% © ACS
R-6 Learning Retention
However, if one listens and sees, approximately 50% of what is heard and seen is retained. If one says or talks through, say a skills station, 70% of what is said is retained. If one says and does, for example a skills session, then approximately 90% of what one says and does is retained. This is, in part, the reason for the level of interactivity in the ATLS Program. Additionally, the adage of “see one, do one, teach one” is an educational premise in the Instructor Course.
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Say  70%
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7. Closure, Affect and Summary
If the instructor wants students to show commitment to ATLS, the instructor must demonstrate it.
If the instructor values ATLS, there is a greater possibility that the student will value and learn ATLS.

8. ATLS Connections
When teaching takes place, a special human connections evolves, a connection of many dimensions that simultaneously effects the learner and the teacher.
This connection invites both the teacher and the learner to participate in a unique social context, with its special hierarchies, roles and responsibilities.
ATLS works, because it is greater than the sum of its parts.

9. ATLS has its origins in the United States in 1976, when James K
ATLS has its origins in the United States in 1976, when James K. Styner, an orthopedic surgeon piloting a light aircraft, crashed his plane into a field in Nebraska. His wife Charlene was killed instantly and three of his four children, Richard, Randy, and Kim sustained critical injuries. His son Chris suffered a broken arm. He carried out the initial triage of his children at the crash site. Dr. Styner had to flag down a car to transport him to the nearest hospital; upon arrival, he found it closed. Even once the hospital was opened and a doctor called in, he found that the emergency care provided at the small regional hospital where they were treated was inadequate and inappropriate. "When I can provide better care in the field with limited resources than my children and I received at the primary facility, there is something wrong with the system and the system has to be changed."

10. Dr. James K Styner and his colleague Paul 'Skip' Collicott, with assistance from advanced cardiac life support personnel and the Lincoln Medical Education Foundation, produced the initial ATLS course which was held in 1978 in Auburn, Nebraska.
Styner himself recently recertified as an ATLS instructor, taking his Instructor Candidate course in the UK and then in the Netherlands.

11. The Result of ATLS Connections and Commitments
Over 500,000 doctors have been trained in 46 countries and more than 25,000 courses have been taught.
You are now part of those commitments and connections.

12. 17-23
Solicit questions.

13. Summary
ATLS teaching involves not only knowledge and skills, but also attitudes and emotions.
The instructor must be a role model in demonstrating commitment to ATLS.
17-25
Continuation of previous slide. The educator should emphasize the last bullet in particular.