Master of Emergency and Critical Care

2 Years Master Degree Programme

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Global Education, Global Acceptance

  • Advancing excellence in emergency clinical practice and scientific research.
  • Specialized faculties expertly focused on advanced emergency care management.
  • Multifaceted instructional strategies that incorporate lectures, interactive seminars, and high-fidelity simulation-based learning.
  • Cultivating highly competent graduates endowed with extensive, practical, and up-to-date knowledge in emergency medicine.
  • Enhancing abilities in critical analysis, and complex problem-solving within the realm of emergency medical services.

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Programme Details

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2 Years Programme

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The Master of Emergency and Critical Care programme is carefully crafted to produce highly qualified medical professionals who are experts in the subtleties of critical care, guaranteeing top-notch care. The curriculum for this programme is extensive and covers everything from pre-hospital evaluations to the subtle shift from critical and acute care settings. This degree is essential given the rising need for specialised critical care services worldwide. It provides graduates with the strategic tools they need to effectively address the physiological and psychological needs of patients with acute, critical, or complex health conditions in a variety of critical care settings. This programme not only meets an urgent requirement in healthcare but also sets a high standard for preparing students to succeed in challenging, fast-paced industries.

  • Empower graduates with advanced expertise in emergency and critical care, equipping them to save lives and make critical decisions in high-pressure situations.
  • cultivates strong leadership and communication skills, enabling graduates to collaborate seamlessly with diverse healthcare teams and provide compassionate, top-tier patient care.
  • Inspires a passion for lifelong learning and innovation, encouraging graduates to stay at the forefront of advancements in emergency medicine and contribute meaningfully to shaping the future of critical care.

  • Demonstrate an extensive understanding, competency, and knowledge in Advanced Airway Management, Cardiovascular and Neurological emergencies, Dialysis, Drug intervention, Mechanical ventilation in the professional domain.
  • Apply knowledge in terminal illness care that focus on physical comfort, emotional support, effective communication, and respecting the patient's wishes to ensure a compassionate and dignified transition.es and sterile practices for intensive care of critically ill patients.
  • Demonstrate expertise in identifying and assessing patients in the early stages of acute disorders (Heart attack, Cardiac arrest, Respiratory arrest, Fracture) of all ages and physical condition both in hospital and pre-hospital settings.
  • Apply skills to function & communicate effectively in multidisciplinary settings & multicultural population, both as an individual and as a team member, demonstrating leadership capabilities when required.
  • Understand and manage patient information while adhering to ethical principles in the profession.
  • Demonstrate adeptness in conducting research within the Emergency and Critical Care domain, while incorporating statistical principles acquired through a statistics course to achieve an advanced level of mastery in the field.
  • Understand the importance of self-sustaining, lifelong learning and possess the skills necessary to pursue it in the most comprehensive way possible in order to benefit humanity and society.

  • Exhibit expertise in creating and executing evidence-based approaches for handling emergency and trauma scenarios, incorporating up-to-date life-saving procedures and techniques ensuring the provision of care is rooted in the most recent research and clinical evidence.
  • Demonstrate clinical practice proficiency in application of emergency and critical care procedures in simulation technology, clinical posting and healthcare industry internship.
  • Demonstrate global competency in the profession through international multidisciplinary and domain-specific certification courses.

Curriculum Details

Year wise Course Details

Even Semester

Courses for this semester

Course Overview

This course aims to orient the students on how to recognize, assess and manage any medical emergencies in the hospital as well as out of hospital settings.

Course Outcomes

  • Develop knowledge of the principles underlying psychiatric disorders, including their pathogenesis, assessment, and treatment.
  • Recognize the pathophysiology of various illnesses, disorders, and gyn ecological emergencies.
  • Understand the Basics of Obstetrics with some common pathophysiology related to the system
  • Recognize the physiological changes in neonates and to be able to examine and treat premature births and common birth traumas.
  • Prepared with toxicology, their impact on the human body with knowledge for diagnosis of different toxic substance.

Course Overview

An introductory course to explain ICU Settings, Respiratory Review and Care of the Critically ill patients on Mechanical Ventilation

Course Outcomes

  • Discuss the principle terms of Mechanical ventilation and its implications.
  • Discuss the concepts of monitoring in mechanically ventilated patients and common parameters
  • Describe the various modes of ventilation and the device operation respectively
  • Understand the management of mechanically ventilated patients
  • Assessment, diagnosis and interventions regarding Hemodynamic monitoring and airway management in mechanically ventilated patients

Course Overview

This course is about managing trauma from minor injuries to humanitarian emergencies including injuries in women children and elderly with the principle goal of improving quality of care and patient safety

Course Outcomes

  • Expertise in trauma system, their mechanism of injury including assessment and management of shock.
  • Prepare to assess and treat various soft tissue injuries, such as burns, crush injuries, blast injuries, etc.
  • Possess the knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the musculoskeletal system and is capable of accurately assessing a variety of musculoskeletal injuries, such as TBI, spinal cord damage, etc.
  • Knowledge about the anatomy and physiology of the organs that make up the thoracic cavity, as well as how to examine and treat them after injury.
  • Knowledge about the anatomy and physiology of the organs that make up the abdominal cavity, as well as how to examine and treat them after injury.

Course Overview

This subject will provide students with competent pharmacological knowledge that serves as a key to manage patients with complex health problems, including co-morbidities

Course Outcomes

  • It will also prepare students to understand the cellular mechanisms and physiological outcomes of drug actions and interactions
  • Describe the history and scope of pharmacology, general pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics
  • Explain neurotransmission and the pharmacology of drugs acting on ANS
  • Describe the pharmacology of drugs acting on Cardio Vascular and Central Nervous System, explain the pharmacology of Local Anaesthetics, drugs acting on Respiratory System
  • Assessment, diagnosis and interventions regarding Pharmacotherapy

Course Overview

A course focusing on some basic concepts of research and its methodologies

Course Outcomes

  • Identify appropriate research topics, select and define appropriate research problem and parameters, prepare a project proposal (to undertake a project)
  • Organize and conduct research (advanced project) in a more appropriate manner
  • Explain key research concepts and issues
  • Write a research report and thesis and write a research proposal (grants)
  • Read, comprehend, and explain research articles in their academic discipline

Course Overview

An introductory practical course to orient the students on how to recognize, assess and manage many medical emergencies in the hospital as well as out of hospital settings

Course Outcomes

  • Knowledge of the principles underlying psychiatric disorders, including their pathogenesis, assessment, and treatment.
  • Being able to recognizing the pathophysiology of various illnesses, disorders, and gynaecological emergencies.
  • Understand the Basics of Obstetrics with some common pathophysiology related to the system
  • Recognizes the physiological changes in neonates and is able to properly examine and treat premature births as well as common birth traumas. Take care of child abuse and neglect issues as well.
  • Prepared with toxicology, their impact on the human body with knowledge for diagnosis of different toxic substance.

Course Overview

This course is about managing trauma in a practical sense from minor injuries to humanitarian emergencies including injuries in women children and elderly with the principle goal of improving quality of care and patient safety

Course Outcomes

  • Expertise in trauma system, their mechanism of injury including assessment and management of shock.
  • Prepared to assess and treat various soft tissue injuries, such as burns, crush injuries, blast injuries, etc.
  • Possesses knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the musculoskeletal system and is capable of accurately assessing a variety of musculoskeletal injuries, such as TBI, spinal cord damage, etc.
  • Knowledgeable about the anatomy and physiology of the organs that make up the thoracic cavity, as well as how to examine and treat them after injury.
  • Knowledgeable about the anatomy and physiology of the organs that make up the abdominal cavity, as well as how to examine and treat them after injury.

Course Overview

This introductory practical course orient the students on how to recognize, assess and manage many medical emergencies in the hospital as well as out of hospital settings

Course Outcomes

  • Require concepts of the implications and interventions related to the respiratory care and procedures
  • Understand the indications for mechanical ventilation and collaborative care and management of patients needing mechanical ventilatory support
  • Understanding of the modes of mechanical ventilation and related relevant care, recognize the risks associated with positive pressure mechanical ventilation
  • Identify indicators of readiness to wean as well as successful and unsuccessful weaning
  • Assess ,and diagnose and interventions regarding Mechanical Ventilation of a patient in ICU
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Odd Semester

Courses for this semester

Course Overview

This course aims to better equip health care professionals in managing common Medical emergencies in critical care settings with a detailed knowledge over common pathophysiology's, diagnosis and management with regards to practical interventions

Course Outcomes

  • Understand the basics of endocrinology and allergic emergencies including their pathophysiology, assessment and immediate management
  • Understand and develop the competencies of basics of gastrointestinal emergencies including their pathophysiology, assessment and immediate management
  • Understand and develop the competencies of basics of renal and urological emergencies including their pathophysiology, assessment and immediate management
  • Understand and develop the competencies of basics of hematological emergencies including their pathophysiology, assessment and immediate management
  • Understand and develop the competencies of basics of infectious and communicable diseases and required interventions associated with it.

Course Overview

This course aims to better equip health care professionals in managing common Medical emergencies in critical care settings with a detailed knowledge over common pathophysiology's, diagnosis and management

Course Outcomes

  • Learn and understand the basics of endocrinology and allergic emergencies including their pathophysiology, assessment and immediate management
  • Learn and understand the basics of gastrointestinal emergencies including their pathophysiology, assessment and immediate management
  • Learn and understand the basics of renal and urological emergencies including their pathophysiology, assessment and immediate management
  • Gain knowledge and understanding of basics of hematological emergencies including their pathophysiology, assessment and immediate management
  • Gain basic understanding and implications related to infectious and communicable diseases and required interventions associated with it.

Course Overview

An introductory practical intervention course to the basic principles and implications of Dialysis in healthcare

Course Outcomes

  • Understand and develop the complete understanding of the basics of urinary system and its anatomy and physiology
  • Develop the basic introduction to the fundamentals of Dialysis
  • Develop the in depth knowledge of types, mechanisms and practical implications of Hemodialysis
  • Develop the in depth knowledge of mechanisms and practical implications of Peritoneal dialysis
  • Understanding Assessment, diagnosis and interventions related to complications pre, during or post dialysis
  • Develop the familiarity with the drugs used during pre and post dialysis
  • Understand which emergencies occur most frequently, causes, as well as preventative measures and understand the physiology behind each emergency as well as typical signs and symptoms common during a dialysis procedure.
  • Understand know the different types of dialysis and their appropriate indication
  • Develop the skills to diagnose and do an emergent intervention and prevent life threatening conditions related to renal replacement therapies
  • Learn the assessment, diagnosis and interventions regarding renal replacement therapies.

Course Overview

A detailed outlook and orientation towards basic and common Intensive care procedures and protocols taking in consideration the holistic care of a patient

Course Outcomes

  • Orientation towards ICU and different Specialities under it
  • Understanding of Admission and Discharge Criteria towards patient interventions
  • In depth knowledge towards various ICU monitoring parameters
  • Be competent in the understanding of ICU procedures required during patient assessment diagnosis and management of a patient in Critical situations
  • Knowledge and skill set towards other patient care consideration and importance of Physiotherapy

Course Overview

This course aims at imparting a detailed practical outlook and orientation towards basic and common Intensive care procedures and protocols taking in consideration with the holistic care of a patient

Course Outcomes

  • Develop an orientation towards ICU and different Specialties under it
  • Understand the admission and Discharge Criteria towards patient interventions
  • Develop in depth knowledge towards various ICU monitoring parameters
  • Develop competencies in the understanding of ICU procedures required during patient assessment diagnosis and management of a patient in Critical situations.
  • Gain knowledge and skill set towards other patient care consideration and importance of Physiotherapy

Course Overview

Explanatory course relating the history of EMS dispatch and describe the basic configuration of EMS.

Course Outcomes

  • Develop basic understanding towards various components of an EMS dispatch program and discuss enhancements of communications such as automatic number/location/vehicle identification as well as the role of federal and state agencies within EMS systems.
  • Develop a practical understanding towards well being, its components and related implications
  • Develop a basic understanding of various injury and illness prevention strategies
  • Develop a basic understanding towards Medical, legal and Ethical issues faced during EMS at large
  • Develop a basic understanding of Ambulance operations and its relative implications

Course Overview

An introductory course to the basic principles and implications of Dialysis in healthcare

Course Outcomes

  • Gain a complete understanding of the basics of urinary system and its anatomy and physiology
  • Develop basic introduction to the fundamentals of Dialysis
  • Develop a deep knowledge of types, mechanisms and practical implications of Hemodialysis
  • Develop a in depth knowledge of mechanisms and practical implications of Peritoneal dialysis
  • Understanding Assessment, diagnosis and interventions related to complications
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Even Semester

Courses for this semester

Course Overview

An introductory course about the principles, implications and differentiations regarding critical transport decisions and care of patients in emergent and non emergent situation

Course Outcomes

  • Develop knowledge towards critical care transport and its different implications
  • Prepare experienced paramedics to have required knowledge towards Medical-Legal issues
  • Orient about Air medical transport and its implications during Critical care transport
  • Knowledge of Flight physiology and its different implications
  • Understand the need of the patients in a critical way required during transport of critical patient situations

Course Overview

This course at imparting the knowledge about the public health care system in India and its implications.

Course Outcomes

  • Learn the basic aspects of a Health care system.
  • Develop, implement and manage various public health programs in India
  • Critically analyze the various components of health care delivery system in India and apply various principles of planning and management in implementing health projects and programmes.
  • Recognize the various sections of healthcare legislations in India and initiate appropriate actions in public health practice
  • Understand different aspects of Health care system in India.

Course Overview

This course aims to develop the understanding regarding medical ethics, etiquette, duties, rights, and medico social and legal responsibilities of healthcare professionals towards patients, profession, State and society at large.

Course Outcomes

  • Understanding about aspects of forensic medicine
  • Identify medicolegal cases and define responsibilities of a basic EMT, both medicolegal and medicosocial.
  • Knowledge of the principles of analytical toxicology, diagnose, manage & document acute/chronic poisonings, perform and make observations in post mortems/make logical inferences
  • knowledge towards Medical Ethics
  • Understand of various Laws and implications of Medical practice

Course Overview

The course aims at giving clinical exposure including core concepts and understanding of the in hospital and out hospital interventions

Course Outcomes

  • Practice therapeutical knowledge
  • Use of empirical and evidence based interventions
  • Develop real time patient dealing under professional guidance
  • Gather practical based knowledge
  • Get job insights

Course Overview

This course aims to orient students towards carrying out Research in the competent field of interest.

Course Outcomes

  • Develop the knowledge about research
  • Conduct a base research
  • Know the principles of research methodology
  • Insight to professional studies as a research scientist
  • Exposure to creative acknowledgement inducing research mindset in a scholar
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CST- Maximum enrolment each year is 120 seats and any 10+2 students can apply. Adtu is northeast India’s first placement driven university to provide 100% scholarship benefits worth 10 cr.

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  • Swimming Pool
  • Play Ground
  • Amphitheatre
  • Basketball Court
  • Cinema Hall
  • Cafeteria
  • Canteen
  • Indoor stadium
  • Yoga Studio
  • Gym
  • ATM

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TIDE 2.0 scheme for ICT-based startups which provides a grant of Rs. 4L and Rs. 7L under EiR and Grant categories respectively, an initiative by the Ministry of MeitY.

dtVL Ideation interest-free loans up to Rs. 2 lakhs.

dtVL Ideation, an incubation program for early-stage entrepreneurs with a market-ready solution/product, offering interest-free loans up to Rs. 2 lakhs.

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