Mr Chris Huggins

OBStJ, AssDipHSc (Ambulance Officer), BHSc (Pre-Hospital Care), DipEd&Trang (Melb), DipFLM, MTrang&Dev (Melb)

Lecturer and NEPT Course Co-ordinator

Alfred Campus

Profile

Teaching

Lecturers in:

• BEH(P) BEH2011

Unit co-ordinator for:

• BEH1102
• BEH3012.

Course Co-ordinator for:

• HLT30207 Certificate III in Non-Emergency Client Transport
• HLT50407 Diploma of Paramedic Science (Ambulance).

Developed distant education package for the Diploma of Paramedical Studies, and is the secretary and chair for the RTO course advisory committee. Provide advice to DHS on educational matters for the Non-Emergency Sector. Designed, authored many learning text and workbooks for the program run by the RTO.

Research Interests

• Learning through simulation.
• Critical decision making and the health care professional.
• Barriers to continuing education in health care professionals.
• The community involvement in first aid and pre and out of hospital care.

Publications (Last 5 Years)

Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed

Huggins C, and Shugg D, Non-Emergency Patient Transport in Victoria: An overview. Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care (JEPHC), Vol. 6, Issue 4, 2008.

Conference Presentations (Last 5 Years)

Peer Reviewed Oral Presentations

Huggins C. Simulation beyond psychomotor skills to judgement. To be presented at. CS&H Industry Skills Council's Convention. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; October 2009.

Huggins C. Simulations, Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgement Lessons learn. 16^th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine. Victoria Canada; 2009.

Boyle M, Bibby C, Williams B, Huggins C, Morton A, Shugg D. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade Emergency Responder Program - A Review of The First Seven Years. 7th International Spark of Life Conference. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 2009

Huggins C. Learning through simulation: Experiential Learning; "Powerful, Purposeful and Personal"(a work in progress) Australian College of Ambulance Professionals Conference. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; 2007.

Huggins C. Public access defibrillation: World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Victoria, Australia 2003

Peer Reviewed Poster Presentations

Boyle M, Bibby C, Williams B, Huggins C, Morton A, Shugg D. The First Seven Years of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Emergency Responder Program. Auckland New Zealand: 2009.

Huggins C. Three Phases of Simulation and Influence of Bloom's Domains Embedded in Effective Simulation. SimTecT Health Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Sept 2009.

Huggins C. Simulation Beyond Skills to Clinical Reasoning. SimTecT Health Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Sept 2009.

Huggins C. Evidence based practice and clinical judgement: The Challenge for Health Care Professionals. Australian College of Ambulance Professionals Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 2008.