Education Outreach
To request burn care education, burn prevention programming, Burn Center tours, or other community outreach, please contact our Burn Outreach & Prevention Educator, Derek Miller.
Email: Derek.Miller@unchealth.unc.edu.
Office: (919) 962-8402
Burn Care Education offerings (in-person):
- Advanced Burn Life Support, flagship course of the American Burn Association (ABA)
Full day course (7:30a-5:30p), earns 7.0 CME/CE upon successful completion.
Check here to search for courses in U.S./Canada..
Check here for local offerings at UNC.
Contact Derek to request course offerings for your team/organization.
- Mini-Burn course
- Half-day (3-4 hour), essentials of emergency burn care, tailored for EMS/ED
Interactive lecture & case study format
Scene safety, primary survey concerns, classifying burns by depth & size, fluid resuscitation for non-burn specialists, ABA referral criteria
Special cases: Airway/Inhalation injuries, Polytrauma, Electrical injuries, Chemical exposure
Brief overview of Burn Center resources: Definitive care (inpatient) & wound closure, Outpatient Clinic, Survivor Support & Burn Aftercare, Outreach & Prevention
- Burn Care Basics
One-hour overview of continuum of burn care + focus on primary survey concerns in emergency care
- Introduction to burn care for students
For pre-professionals in medicine, nursing, allied health (OT/PT), or EMS training programs.
Content & format tailored to specific needs.
Can discuss options to include Burn Center tour, clinical rotations and/or shadowing
*Requires additional administrative steps & logistical planning
Independent Learning Resources:
- Trauma Learning Series (TLS) by Tar Heel Trauma is a great collection of FREE con ed that anyone can view ANYTIME.
https://tarheeltrauma.org/trauma-learning-series/
Specifically, the August 2024 topic was “Beyond Basics: Pre-hospital & Emergency” by Courtney Wright, RN.
https://vimeo.com/video/995110997
Password is UNCTrauma1
Courtney also did a follow-up session with Tar Heel Trauma on selected wound care aspects, “OMG! A Burn! Now what?!”
Password is UNCTrauma1
- Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) offers many options for con ed.
There are currently three (3) FREE E-learning modules (asynchronous) + one (1) FREE upcoming webinar on 8/20, all related to burn care.
One of those three (3) current options is a FREE live webinar recorded by Derek Miller for BCEN on 9/18/24.
Beyond the Parkland Formula: A Closer Look at the Complexities of Burn Resuscitation
BCEN also has four (4) other E-learning modules with modest cost ($20 – $40 each).
Initial Burn Care & Resuscitation; Acute Burn Resuscitation Priorities; Treatment and Management of Chemical Burns; Inhalation Injuries
- Loud & Clear is a fantastic podcast co-hosted by Will Berry (Carolina Air Care flight paramedic) and Ross Orpet (EM physician from Denver).
Aimed at EMS but informative for ED and inpatient trauma care professionals, as well as military partners in deployments or prolonged field care settings.
ALL of their excellent episodes are full of highly relevant EM/CritCare topics for those hungry to learn.
As for burn content, Will & Ross interviewed Derek Miller for an extended episode (2-parter) on burn resuscitation, plus another on electrical injuries.
https://emspodcast.com/the-critically-burned-patient/
https://emspodcast.com/electrical-injuries-and-lightning-strikes/
There have been many episodes with other guests discussing burn-related topics such as airway management, inhalation injuries, crush injuries, etc.