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Rescue Medics; what to expect.

As part of the Rescue Medics Australia crew, you will get rescue and tactical medicine training up to 4days per year with some of Australia’s most experienced practitioners in severe trauma, advanced life support and remote field care; doctors, paramedics and combat medics from tactical response, helicopter rescue and hospital emergency teams.

The training will involve deeply immersive, field-based scenarios around the coastal and hinterland areas where we live. We will train for different types of disasters, in different locations, in different team formations. Our focus is rescue and tactical medicine responses for the critically injured and ill in complex environments.

We learn to operate as a high performance team who get to know how to work with each other very well in difficult situations.

As civilians, you are unlikely to get trauma care training like this anywhere else in Australia. If you love high intensity field-based learning, this will be your thing.

You will already have relevant skills. Some of you may be already be doctors, paramedics, nurses, advanced life support medics (Diploma or CertIV) or former combat medics. Others will be advanced first responders. A team of mixed skills and experiences is highly desirable.

You will have lots of motivation to be part of a high performance rescue medic response team with enough grit and resilience for working effectively in situations with severe trauma in complex contexts.

This team will respond to situations that could happen day or night. So you will be willing to contribute during those occasions when they occur. These are likely to be infrequent, though this is our mission.

We appreciate not everyone will be available all of the time, which is why we will establish a crew size that will accomodate flexibility for members.

You will have personable communication skills with a calm but efficient demeanour during emergencies. When crises occur, first responders need to demonstrate highly effective relationship skills and communication styles. We need folk who are cool, calm and collected.

What you bring as a Rescue Medic…

Crises can be demanding, so you will bring a flexible and adaptive approach with a constructive style under pressure.

You will also bring a very high level of openness to learning and feedback from across the whole team. Top-down hierarchies don’t work for feedback; they are old fashioned and limit learning. Our debriefs involve getting feedback from everyone; it is how we further sharpen our skills. For our crew, feedback is a flat playing field; everyone gives, everyone gets, regardless of experience. We operate within a high performance learning culture.

Members of our initial crew will have a life established in south east Queensland, and we will gradually build our operations around Australia.

It takes years to build skills in rescue, advanced resuscitation, severe trauma and remote field care. Therefore, we need to gradually build advanced skills and teamwork through an annual cycle of training sessions that are accumulative rather than repetitive.

We want a stable, local core crew of people who are prepared for the journey ahead so we can grow long-term capability.