The Ministry of Health and Consumption, the Andalusian Health Service, through the General Directorate of Personnel and the Andalusian Emergency Plan, and IAVANTE of the Progress and Health Foundation carry out a total of eight activities during 2025 included in a training program on the urgent treatment of patients at risk of life. This activity on advanced medical life support, AMLS in English, is endorsed by the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians of the United States (NAEMT) and is taught in healthcare centers and at the Advanced Clinical Simulation Center of IAVANTE.
The 36-hour course is aimed at Medicine and Nursing professionals specializing in Urgencies and Emergencies, who undergo intensive training through recreations of critical emergency care situations caused by respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, endocrine-metabolic, infectious, or toxicological pathologies, among others, through clinical simulation methodologies.
This model allows optimizing the learning process by reducing the training curve and increasing patient safety. Professionals acquire and reinforce their skills in the diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of critical patients in pre-hospital or emergency hospital settings, following European and international standards.
According to Paco Pepe Gómez, coordinator of the Programs area at IAVANTE, «This activity is a commitment of the Ministry of Health and Consumption to provide quality, certified, and accredited training, which allows participants to access a deep knowledge of specific emergency care situations addressed.»
One of the noteworthy aspects of this training is the composition of the teaching team, made up of active professionals from the Andalusian Health Service, who bring their daily experience in handling patients in critical situations. Added to this factor is the use of clinical simulation that ensures comprehensive learning where participants take on a leading and active role.
This program is part of the Training Plan in Urgencies and Emergencies that the Andalusian Health Service offers to professionals in the Public Health System of Andalusia through IAVANTE, which will provide more than a hundred training activities to over 2,000 professionals this year.