Finding a Medical Director

[Guest guest]

Any thoughts on how to find a medical director for non-EMS services?

Training programs like ACLS, PALS, PEPP, etc., AED placement,

TB testing, and probably more things, require a licensed physician

as a medical director. And some of these, like ACLS training

centers, really don't make a lot of money anyway. So where would

you go to find someone to oversee these type of programs that

can't afford to hire a physician on any substantial time basis?

It's my thought that there is little real work involved, since

most of these are card course level programs. ACLS, for example,

how much does the medical director have to do? Or a physician

to oversee training programs for AEDs, where the programs are

canned and developed by ASHI, AHA, ARC, and the like.

I'd think there would be organizations out there that do this,

or a particular specialty that does this sort of thing regularly.

But I've not found anyone. And this sort of thing comes up

all the time. The physicians I've talked to about this seem

to not have any idea about things like this, and haven't been

very receptive.

Any ideas?

=Steve=

Steve , LP

AlertCPR Emergency Training

2300 Highland Village Rd, Suite 340

Highland Village, TX 75077