If you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen. Everything you learn to assess and treat in the MED series produces information. MED-06 teaches you how to capture that information on paper so the next provider — paramedic, physician, or rescue medic — has what they need to continue your care.
Required: MED-01: MARCH-PAWS Rapid Assessment, MED-02: Medical History, and MED-03: DCAP-BTLS Secondary Assessment should be completed before beginning this course. Documentation is the written record of what those courses teach you to find — the assessment must come first.
What This Course Covers
For most preppers and group members, day-to-day documentation will be minimal: a TCCC card (Tactical Combat Casualty Care card, DD Form 1380) filled out at the point of injury and handed to EMS with a verbal report. That is the baseline. This course builds from that baseline to the full patient encounter form for rural and complex scenarios where you will be with the patient longer.
MED-06 covers four scenarios across urban, rural, and extended care settings — a pedestrian trauma, a cardiac event, a diabetic emergency, and a deteriorating rural trauma patient. By the end you will know which form to reach for, how to fill out every field, and how to deliver a complete handoff.
Documentation for prolonged care — serial monitoring over hours, urine output tracking, problem lists — is covered in MED-09: Wilderness & Extended Care. Complete MED-06 first to build the foundation.
Course Lessons
The MED-06 Companion Workbook contains a one-page quick reference card, four PCR scenario exercises, and all blank documentation forms in a printable appendix. Print the appendix before your first lesson.
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