Evaluation of Emergency First Response’s Competency in Undergraduate College Students: Enhancing Sustainable Medical Education in the Community for Work Occupational Safety

Abstract

Worldwide, people’s quality of health has been decreasing due to bad eating habits that have generated an increase in diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, overweight, as well as an increase in hours of the daily workday and stress. This situation can generate sudden illness and work accidents where the need to have knowledge in emergency first response (EFR) is necessary for all. Unfortunately, workshops and courses to certify EFR individuals are usually taught only to healthcare professionals. Therefore, to address this need a EFR project has been developed at the Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEC) which consists of a multidisciplinary challenge to train, certify, and evaluate students’ competency as “emergency first responders” in medical emergencies and healthcare awareness. This EFR project has been performed for one week, every year since 2015, and constitutes a joint venture among academic departments, faculty, and industrial/government institutions, which work together in multidisciplinary projects, providing a source of innovative proposals. The EFR project at TEC has provided instruction and certification for 966 students between 2015 to 2019 and this study has analyzed results considering a sample size of 197 participants. The combination of exam evaluation, medical emergency skills verification, and project proposal results indicate that most students reach skill levels between 2 and 3 in EFR competency after successfully completing the program, regardless of their year of study or the undergraduate program they are enrolled on. This evaluation emphasizes the compromise of the institution and its students in preparation for new living under sanitary conditions for pandemic conditions such as COVID-19.

Conduction of Academic Examination in the University Campus by the Medicine College during Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Elaboration of Precautionary Methods

“…To accomplish this goal, the Qassim University administration after extensive meetings has decided to conduct examinations within the campus. This was a challenging task as the mode of transmission of COVID-19 which is through droplet spread can abruptly be transferred from an infected person to other people in the vincity [14], [15]. To tackle this challenge, guidelines and protocols were formulated after consultation with expertise and workshops were conducted to train the staff who would be responsible for conducting the examinations.…”

Excel Methods to Design and Validate in Microelectronics (Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor, CMOS) for Biomedical Instrumentation Application

“…The full-blown methodology includes the Excel method, schematic development, layout implementation, and simulation test, and it is used for conceptual design development in microelectronics courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. The undergraduate courses include industrial partner participation to develop instrumentation systems specified by industrial needs [43]; as a result, these educational collaborations with other entities have been applied in our academic educational practices and/or by applying our new educational model TEC21 at the undergraduate level [44][45][46][47]. As mentioned earlier, the main contributions of this research are in teaching CMOS microelectronics in which the method helps the instruction of the following points:…”

Advanced CMOS Integrated Circuit Design and Application

“…The two presented models were useful for understanding the physical mechanism of the flicker noise, but their limitation is that they can only be applied to the long-channel devices. The flicker noise in short-channel devices is mainly considered to be due to the random telegraph signal (RTS) noise generated by the Si−SiO 2 interface because as the size of the devices is scaled down, the device operation is predominantly represented by the movement of each charge carrier [39,41,44].…”