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Professional Education

Advancing Burn Care through Education & Expertise

Continuous learning is essential for delivering the highest standards of burn care. Our professional education programs are designed to equip healthcare specialists with the latest knowledge and best practices in burn management. From advanced clinical skills to continuing nursing education and medical student electives, explore our offerings to enhance your expertise and provide exceptional care.

Advanced Burn Life Support Courses

Gain hands-on skills and critical knowledge to manage burn injuries effectively. Click on the course title for details and event listings.

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Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) Provider Course - July 2025

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The ABLS Provider Course is an eight-hour course for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, therapists, and paramedics. This live, hands-on course is designed to provide the "how-to" of emergency care of the burn patient through the first 24-hr critical time period.

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Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) Provider Course - October 2025

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The ABLS Provider Course is an eight-hour course for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, therapists, and paramedics. This live, hands-on course is designed to provide the "how-to" of emergency care of the burn patient through the first 24-hr critical time period.

Continuing Nursing Education

Burn Wound Management and Safe Patient Transfer to a Specialized Burn Care Facility

This one-hour live presentation is offered free to organizations looking to enhance the initial care of burn patients. Registered Nurses will learn best practices for burn injury care and patient transfer to specialized burn facilities to promote optimal wound healing and reduce morbidity and mortality.

Learning Outcome:

80% of participants will demonstrate increased knowledge by identifying a practice change related to the care and management of the patient with a burn injury.

Continuing Education Credit:

Participants will receive 1.0 Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) contact hour.

Accreditation:

The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is approved with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Louisiana State Nurses Association - Approver, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. LSNA Provider No. 4002176. None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

To schedule a course, email Monica Hutson at mnhernan@utmb.edu.

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Visiting Medical Students

U.S. Medical Students:

Medical students in their final year from other U.S. institutions may apply for electives at UTMB through the VSLO Application Service. Access to VSLO is managed by your home institution.

Non-U.S. Medical Students:

Only students from affiliated schools are eligible to apply. You must be in your final year of medical school to participate.

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