Get Involved Today

Our profession has a deep responsibility to be at the forefront of community education projects, and ACEP’s Until Help Arrives program is a powerful step towards more fully addressing that responsibility. Leading Until Help Arrives courses in your community is a relatively simple way to make a positive impact. ACEP provides the course curriculum and script. Once you go through the process to become a course instructor, available at
www.untilhelparrives.com, you’ll have access to the course curriculum and the instructor portal with helpful resources. ACEP provides a step-by-step process for instructors that provides helpful tips for finding a course, getting attendees, purchasing instructor kits, etc.

ACEP developed this course to help emergency physicians give back to their own communities by equipping citizens with first responder skills. The Until Help Arrives program just launched at ACEP19 in October, and we have a valuable opportunity to help ACEP grow and refine this important initiative during its infancy.

We encourage you all to get involved. Become a course instructor, host local training sessions, and invite local media outlets to help spread the word about the importance of proper emergency response.

Let’s show our communities how much we care. Let’s work together to teach people the skills they need to feel competent instead of helpless. Let’s step outside our emergency departments and use our skills to empower others.

Dr. Wood is a PGY-4 emergency medicine resident and Dr. Bikman is a PGY-3 emergency medicine resident at Kent Hospital in Warwick, Rhode Island.