EMS 219 Advanced Electrocardiography (3 credits)

1. Demonstrate the ability to systematically interpret 12 lead ECG tracings.
2. Recognize patterns of myocardial ischemia, injury, and infarct.
3. Explain the significance of the electrical axis. 
4. Identify bundle branch blocks and hemiblocks.
5. Identify the effects of certain medications and electrolyte imbalances found on the 12-lead ECG.
6. Formulate a differential diagnosis and treatment plan for interpreted findings on a 12-lead ECG.

Core Abilities:
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

Potential Methods
Peer evaluation
Instructor evaluation
Written assessments
Group assessments