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"El Centro Colaborativo de Emergencias Medicas" (CCME)
| VIPs innauguration Jan 18th 2005 |
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| Health Minister, Head of Red Cross, and other dignitaries |
The New Home for the PACEMD / MedSpanish Programs!
Our new Collaborative EM Dissemination Center was inaugurated January 18th, 2005 at Meson de San
Jose, across from the Plaza Civica, in San Miguel de Allende! The Center focuses on collaborative efforts between
the Health Ministry, the University of Guanajuato, the Red Cross, and a variety of other organizations interested in Emergency
and Culturally based care in Latin America and for Latinos in the US!
We were honored to have the following guests inaugurate the Center:
* San Miguel Mayor Luis Alberto Villareal
*Guanajuato Secretary of Health Ector Jaime Ramirez Barba *State of Guanajuato Red Cross Director Julia Gabriel
*State Director of Emergency Services Dr. Eduardo Romero Hicks
*Dr. Juan Munoz Barrett, from the Dean's Office at the University of Guanajuato Medical School.
There were Emergency Medicine faculty from NYU and Harvard, as well as residents from various EM programs who were enrolled
in the PACEMD/MedSpanish Program.
Nuestra casa es su casa!
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Goals of the Dissemination Center:
1) To develop the concept of Community Oriented Emergency Medicine in International and US national context and to support
the development of EM residency and training programs in Guanajuato, and throughout Mexico and Latin America.
2) Develop an interface between emergency medicine organizations in the United States / Canada and the Mexico and Latin
America. And to partner with US Based EM Residency programs develop a Border and International EM Residency electives and
fellowship programs.
3) To generally foster collaboration and development between the Red Cross, the Health Ministries, Universities and professional
emergency medical societies, the private sector and the communities that they serve throughout the Americas.
4) Develop/Sponsor Emergency Medicine training programs for nurses (PACE-1) Physicians (PACE-2) and EMTs (PACE-3), layperson
targeted emergency medicine related courses (PACE)
5) and Advanced EM Practice -Ultrasound and Advanced Airway- (PACE 5) in Spanish in cooperation with the University of
Guanajuato and other state and national organizations throughout Mexico and Latin America.
6) To develop an American Heart Association Center and the collaborative center as a training center for various providers
and instructor courses, both in English and in Spanish, including the following: CPR, Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP). We also wish to sponsor other courses such as
ATLS and FENIX III, the American Academy of Family Practice Advanced Life Support for Obstetrics (ALSO) , Emergency Nurses
Association Nursing Courses and other packaged professional courses.
7) To provide a community center in San Miguel that will provide a focus to improve "the chain of survival"
for both the Mexican and foreign community in San Miguel de Allende. To deploy a model Community Oriented Emergency Medicine
development project in San Miguel. (Link to GEMS Station and the Provisional San Miguel Plan)
8) To develop the State of Guanajuato as a center for Cultural Literacy and Medical Spanish for U.S. health care providers
for Latino populations (native and migrant) in the US.
9) To develop a World Center for Excellence for Dissemination of Community Oriented Emergency Medicine in the Americas.
| Presentation to honored guests |
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| Group shot with the first ACLS class graduates |
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We are very excited to be starting this Emergency Medicine Community Center in San Miguel
de Allende. It was our original goal to create a "field office" for the US Emergency Medicine community where we could
assist in the development of Emergency Medicine in Latin America. Since 1997, we have developed a track record of innovation
and cost effective results which has resulted in conference development and sponsorships, an Emergency Utrasound Course
(which has been taught in Panama and Argentina), advanced Airway courses, a trauma nurse provider and instructor course
(TNCC), all in Spanish. We have also developed the only clinically based Medical Spanish Program in Latin America and
provide Continuing Education Credits from the University of New Mexico. We are presently teaching the PACE 1 Emergency
Nursing course and plan to shortly begin the PACE 2 (Physicians) and PACE-3 (EMT) course. We are supporting the dissemination
of the Fenix III course, an EXCELLENT Disaster, Trauma, Pre hospital course Pre Hospital Life Support Course which comes from
the Medical College of Georgia. Advanced Obstetrical Live Supoort (ALSO) and other certificate courses for providers and instructors.
Dr. Haywood Hall, the founder of the PACEMD Program in Guanajuato, is an ASHOKA fellow (www.Ashoka.org and www.changemakers.net), was recently named the American College of Emergency Physicians Ambassador to Mexico.
The PACEMD Academic Director, Darryl Macias, was named Ambassador to Argentina.
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Below (left) is one of the classrooms at the PACEMD Center. It is just the right size to teach
the 16 - 24 people in a standard "certification" course. There are other rooms which can provide some of the mannequin
and practical skill stations for these courses. In actuallty, our concept of "community based" takes most of the courses to
areas outside of San Miguel. Many of our courses will be at the Red Cross and University based facilities around the
state and throughout the country.
Below (right) is the Restaurant, Meson de San Jose, where we wiill do most of the "one on one" and
small group instruction in Medical Spanish. The facility is a true "community center" where will provide internet services
to people in the program and allow for various informal get togethers in a charming setting right in the center
of town. The facility also is proud to host the weekly Rotatary Club meetings in this beautiful, historic building site.
 
There are many ways to get involved with our center! Please contact us at Info@PACEMD.org
Contactanos al
Tel.:
01. 415. 152. 75. 32Cel: 045415 15 3 50 54 Mesones No. 38 - 13
San
Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Mexico
CP37700
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