Joshua D Mastenbrook, MD

Joshua Mastenbrook, MD
  • Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
    • Primary Address
    • Office
    • 1000 Oakland Drive
    • Department of Emergency Medicine
    • Kalamazoo, MI, United States 49008

Teaching

Courses I Teach

  • EMER 7510 - Section 2 Emergency Medical Services.
    Students will gain familiarity with a high performance prehospital EMS system. Along with EMS faculty and staff, they will attend various standing administrative meetings, and weekly emergency medicine grand rounds/simulation. They will complete two 8-hour ride along shifts with paramedics and one 8-hour ride along shift with medical first responder firefighters. Total time expectations will be approximately 25-30 hours per week.
  • EMER 7510 - Section 3 Medical Response Unit.
    Alongside senior emergency medicine resident physicians, students will ride along on WMed’s Medical Response Unit, a specially-outfitted EMS response vehicle equipped with emergency response capabilities, medical equipment and tools not available on standard ambulances. Students will respond to major high-acuity EMS calls such as multi-casualty incidents, cardiac arrests, multi-alarm fires and major traumas. Students will attend weekly emergency medicine grand rounds/simulation, and will work three 8-hour shifts for a total time expectation of approximately 25-30 hours per week.
  • EMER 9410 - Emergency Medical Services.
    This elective offers students the opportunity to learn about and experience pre-hospital and disaster medicine through a series of structured didactic sessions and hands-on field experiences. EMS is a relatively new specialty in the house of medicine, becoming an ABEM Boarded subspecialty in September 2010 with the first certification exam being administered in 2013. The Kalamazoo County EMS system is a high-performance single tier ALS system with countywide BLS first responders. Serving a population of a quarter million, the EMS system is made up of four ambulance services covering designated areas of the county and sixteen first responder agencies – fire departments and public safety. The four-week curriculum is broken into 4 topic blocks, including history of ems, introduction to medical direction and system design, quality improvement and finance, and special ops. The NAEMSP textbook and online FEMA resources will be utilized. Students will ride along with our physician-staffed medical support unit twice a week, spend a day with a fire department/public safety agency, and observe emergency call taking and dispatching at a 911 and ems dispatch center. Additionally, students will participate in monthly local and regional meetings, weekly fellow didactics and emergency medicine grand rounds, monthly sim lab, and monthly ems case review. The course concludes with a written exam based on the 4 topic blocks and a written course evaluation. The course readings, exam, and evaluation will be available through an online learning platform, moodle. Students may work ahead on assignments.