Host: Sam Willis
Guest: Sherwin Chia

About this episode:
Person-centred care requires the paramedic to be able to adapt what they do with each individual person. A lack of differential diagnosis (DDx) is seen as a barrier to providing optimal patient care which is fundamental to safe patient outcomes. This podcast explores the experiences of one student paramedic who shares his views and experiences if undertaking a DDx in an out of hospital care setting.

About Sam:
Sam is the Discipline Lead for paramedicine at Curtin University and has a passion for all things paramedic education. He worked as a paramedic and lecturer in London and Oxford, in the United Kingdom, prior to coming to Australia to further his career in paramedic education. His current doctoral studies explore the use of virtual reality communities of practice for supporting student paramedics as they undertake Work Integrated Learning (WIL).

About Sherwin:
Having just finished the major portion of his degree at Curtin University, Sherwin remains an ardent learner of Paramedicine. As a fan of out-of-hospital care, he began his journey volunteering his time as an event health services officer in 2016. Through a stroke of chance and pure good fortune, he was dropped an application form for the St John Ambulance Student Ambulance Officer program by a paramedic who encouraged him to make the leap. 

In a life prior to paramedicine, Sherwin was also a dental assistant, a high-reach forklift operator in a warehouse and a fan of all things Japanese from anime to Judo. It wasn’t until his first experience working alongside a paramedic crew in the back of an ambulance that he knew providing frontline medical assistance was his port of call.