Meghan Williams
Assistant Professor
Allied Health Sciences
EMAIL: mewilliams@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: N-799J
Office Hours: Tuesday, 2:00-4:00 pm. Wednesday, 4:30-5:30 pm. Sign up via https://bmccparamedicaas.youcanbook.me
Phone: +1 (212) 220-8342
Meghan Williams is the Paramedic Program Director and Assistant Professor in the Allied Health Sciences. She holds a Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies and Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with over 15 years’ experience as an EMS provider. She is certified as a IBSC Flight Paramedic, NAEMT instructor, AHA instructor, and a NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) certified Law Enforcement Instructor and previously served as an EMS educator at the Suffolk County Police Academy.
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Expertise
Degrees
- M.A. Liberal Studies, concentration Work and Family
- B.A. Psychology
Courses Taught
- This course is a training program to provide the students with the necessary basic skills and knowledge to deal with a broad spectrum of illness and injuries in the pre-hospital care phase of emergency medicine. Upon successful completion of the course, students will take the New York State Emergency Medical Technical Certification Examination. Once certified, and upon completion of certain fundamental core courses, the student will be eligible to take the advanced paramedic level courses of the program. The course will be offered in the fall and spring semesters only.
- This course provides students with the knowledge of assessing victims of sudden illness or injury with the understanding of the underlying anatomy and physiology of the affected tissue, organ, or system. Students will also be given an understanding of appropriate treatment modalities for certain disease entities and injuries. Students will also be provided with the knowledge and skills required for treating victims of sudden illness or injury as pre-hospital care givers.Corequisites: EMC 101, EMC 301
- This course provides students with the knowledge of human anatomy and physiology as required for the understanding of assessing and treating victims of sudden illness or injury. Pathophysiology and management of problems, patient assessment, and techniques of management of the cardiovascular system and respiratory system, as well as all other systems, are introduced. Prerequisite: New York State Certification as an Emergency Medical Technician Corequisites: EMC 102, EMC 301
- This course provides students with the knowledge of appropriate assessment of the cardiac patient, the knowledge and skill to read normal electrocardiograms, recognize cardiac arrhythmias on same, operate and interpret electrocardiograms. It also provides students with the skills to use a defibrillator, and to perform defibrillation and synchronized cardioversion. Students are also provided with knowledge of local, general, and systemic effects of specific drugs, as well as the absorption rates via intravenous, subcutaneous, oral, transtracheal, and intramuscular routes of administration. Students are provided with the knowledge of the effects of alpha and beta receptors in the heart, lungs, and arteries, as well as beta blockers. Students are also provided with the knowledge of dose, dilution, action, indications and use, precautions, incompatibility, contraindications, side effects, antidotes of specific drugs, and skills of administering drugs. Prerequisites: EMC 101, EMC 102 Corequisites: EMC 202, EMC 302
- This course provides students with the knowledge and skills required to perform physical examination on patients with suspected injury to the head, spinal cord, cervical spine, neurologic problems, and general seizures. It also provides students with the knowledge and skills to recognize symptoms of diabetes mellitus, insulin shock, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, and treatment of same. In addition, students are provided with the knowledge of appropriate treatment of a patient who has ingested poison. Students are provided with the knowledge and skill required to catheterize both male and female urinary bladders. Students are also provided with the knowledge and skills required to arrive at a decision to transport patients in labor or to prepare for delivery, as well as functioning in all childbirth possibilities. Students are provided with the knowledge and skills of management in mass casualty situations, situations involving a battered or sexually abused child, and situations involving emotionally disturbed patients who are combative. Prerequisites: EMC 101, EMC 102 Corequisites: EMC 201, EMC 302
- Students are provided with clinical training experience at the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, City Morgue, and with the Hospital Phlebotomy team. Students will also perform clinical service in the Emergency Department, Operating Room, and with the Paramedic Ambulance. Students will acquire further experience in the Labor and Delivery Suite, Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Department, and Psychiatric Emergency Department. Corequisites: EMC 101, EMC 102
- In this second EMC/Paramedical clinical rotation course students continue their work in the hospital emergency room. In addition, clinical rotations are provided for experiences on the paramedical (advance life support) ambulance, in the operating room, and in the New York City Medical Examiner's Office.Prerequisites: EMC 101, EMC 102, EMC 301 Corequisites: EMC 201, EMC 202
- In this final EMC/Paramedic clinical rotation course students complete their required hours in the hospital emergency room and on the Paramedic (A.L.S.) ambulance. Additional development of knowledge and skills is provided in the labor and delivery rooms, psychiatric facilities, ICU/CCU, Cardiac Catheterization laboratory, pediatric neonatal clinic and well baby clinic. Prerequisites: EMC 201, EMC 202, EMC 302
Research and Projects
NAEMT Psychological Trauma in EMS Patients https://www.naemt.org/education/ptep
