The EMS Educator

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The EMS Educator episodes

May 03, 2024 Preparing Your People for Pediatric Patients
How, where, when and why should we be training our EMS clinicians to take care of tiny humans? Look no further for the answers, as we have subject matter expert Stephanie Ashford, Division Chief of Clinical Practice at the Saint Charles County (MO) Ambulance District. Stephanie has proven advice on how to successfully integrate pediatric readiness and skills training for your agency. Tiny humans are sometimes terrifying (smaller parts, requires math, etc.), and Stephanie's experience teaches us how to implement Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice as well as other mantras such as "Pause, Prescribe, Replay" so that we are basing our training on proven research.
Take a listen and be sure to check out the Peds Ready PPRP Assessment, open from May- July: https://emspedsready.org/
Mentioned in the episode:
Follow Stephanie on X: https://twitter.com/ashfordmom
Peak by Anders Ericsson
Kirkpatrick Model
Dr. John Hoyle
SCCAD EMS STARS Program
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45 min
April 05, 2024 Resource Deficiencies in Paramedic Programs
How involved in education is the medical director for your paramedic program? If you answered, "Not very much," you are not alone. Join us as we interview research authors Michael Kaduce and Jonathan Powell, who recently published a paper in Prehospital Emergency Care titled: Medical Directors, Facilities, and Finances: Resource Deficiencies in Accredited Paramedic Programs. Their objective was to evaluate US paramedic program resources and identify common deficiencies that may affect program completion. A lack of medical director engagement in educational activities, inadequate facility resources, and a lack of available financial resources affected the educational environment. They surveyed those who are directly affected: paramedic students.
Guests:
Michael Kaduce
Jonathan Powell
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51 min
March 01, 2024 Designing Education that Actually Improves Performance
How do you know that your teaching is effective? We asked Tom Grawey, D.O., who is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin, EMS Medical Director for Gateway Technical College, and Assistant Medical Director,
Milwaukee County OEM. He said, "I thought what I was teaching would actually change behavior. I was later surprised to see it wasn't happening." Hosts Maia Dorsett, Rob Lawrence and Hilary Gates discuss with Tom how to solve education problems with education, teach to your learner’s values and teach to change, not to disseminate knowledge.
Mentioned in this episode:
Tom Grawey, DO
https://twitter.com/EMtgDO
Nancy Duarte: Resonate
How to Write Learning Objectives
The Affective Domain of Education
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40 min
February 09, 2024 It’s a G’Day For America: Unique Approaches to the EMS Staffing Shortage
Could your next work partner be… Australian? If some folks in California have their way, the answer is yes. Working to solve the ongoing staffing shortage, a group of innovative EMS leaders in California and Australia are thinking differently: bringing well-trained EMS clinicians from Australia to join the U.S. ranks. How do they do it? Hosts Rob Lawrence and Hilary Gates interview the impressive cast of characters. We discuss the logistics, the education, the paperwork, and of course, the accents.
Guests on this episode:
Paramedic Kaya Shults
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Paramedic Sam Fiorin
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Dannie Wurtz, EMT-P, RN; CEO at International Medic Solutions
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Joe Wurtz, Co-Founder & COO at International Medic Solutions
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Neil Noble, Managing Director at Australia EMS
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Jimmy Pierson, President & COO at Medic Ambulance Service
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56 min
December 06, 2023 Upstander Training and Implicit Bias
You've heard the term "bystander," but probably not "upstander." What is it? Hosts Rob Lawrence, Maia Dorsett and Hilary Gates are joined by University of Pittsburgh's Rickquel Tripp, MD, MPH, CDR, USNR: Vice Chair of Diversity, Inclusion & Health Equity, Department of Emergency Medicine; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; EMS Medical Director, Penn Hills, SouthEast Regional, Lower Valley and Foxwall; Emergency Department Attending Physician. Dr. Tripp teaches us about implicit bias and how an upstander will not stand quietly by but will instead engage in support of a person or group who may be being bullied or attacked. How should we teach this in our EMS systems? How do we create a safe space and a culture that celebrates this behavior? Bias is often motivated by fear, anxiety or the unknown.
Resources:
NAEMSP Pre Conference Workshop: "Empowering Leadership: Building Equity and Excellence into EMS Systems" on Jan. 8, 2024 8 am-5 pm
Upstander Handout
The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmonson
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57 min
August 16, 2023 Will This Be on the Test? Incorporating Best Research Evidence into EMS Education & High Stakes Testing
Is this going to be on the test? Educators having been cringing at this question as long as tests have existed because of a perceived time-lapse between research-driven advances in best practice and incorporation into high stakes testing - but these days are numbered. In this episode of the EMS Educator podcast, we host EMS Education experts and members of the National Registry research team, Chris Gage (current NREMT research fellow), Dr. Ash Panchal (NREMT Research director) and Dr. Kim McKenna (paramedic educator and NREMT Board member) to discuss their publication of the Consensus Standard for Evidence Integration into EMS Education and High Stakes Testing which describes the strategy for incorporating research evidence into EMS education and the NREMT certification exam. We discuss why this work was necessary, the process by which the strategy was developed, and why the future is bright for evidence implementation in EMS education and clinical practice.

Additional resources for EMS educators:

The Prehospital Guidelines Consortium list of prehospital Evidence-Based guidelines and EMS Professionals Reading List

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49 min
June 12, 2023 Understanding the NREMT’s EMS ID
Want to know more about the NREMT’s National EMS ID? NREMT initiated this project in early 2020 to help us gain insights into the EMS workforce, attrition, quality of education, provider credentialing and provision of quality patient care. The ID will enable NREMT to follow learners from pre-matriculation to retirement In this episode, Hilary Gates and Rob Lawrence explore the ID's current use, purpose, and future possibilities, including ways that EMS agencies, educators, leaders and clinicians can benefit from the EMS ID.
Joining as guests are: Alan Arguello, COO of NREMT; Josh Tilton, NREMT Senior Program Manager; and Heather Davis, NREMT Board Member.
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.nremt.org/document/national-ems-id
EMS Compact
Reel Emergency Vodcast
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49 min
May 22, 2023 Pearls of EMS Ultrasound
It’s a hot topic right now: how should EMS utilize ultrasound as a part of out-of-hospital medicine? We asked the pros: three physicians who have set up programs, trained clinicians and analyzed data. Join hosts Rob Lawrence, Hilary Gates and Maia Dorsett as we dive into lessons learned about the logistics, training and quality improvement around ultrasound in EMS.
Our guests for this episode: Jenna White, MD, FAEMS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico; Frances Russell, MD, FACEP, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & co-director for the Educational Ultrasound Initiative at Indiana University School of Medicine; and Melissa Miller, MD, Associate Medical Director, OCMO, Austin Travis County EMS.
Follow Dr. Russell at @IUEM_ultrasound and @fmbrussell.
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55 min
March 23, 2023 Rethinking Preceptor Training
What training did you receive when you became a field preceptor? Many in EMS would reply, "Not much." In this episode, hosts Rob Lawrence, Maia Dorsett and Hilary Gates welcome educators Ginger Locke and Ashley Liebig from Austin, TX. Ginger and Ashley share their ideas about this topic after recently teaching a comprehensive preceptor training course. They found training preceptors can shape positive department culture, create a safe space for feedback, and help everyone find a sense of belonging.
Mentioned in the episode:
Geoffrey Cohen, Belonging
Medic Mindset “Finding Feedback”
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Brene Brown
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50 min
December 30, 2022 How Did the COVID Pandemic Affect EMS Education?
In 2020, the Commission on Accreditation for Prehospital Continuing Education (CAPCE) reported a 179% increase in course completions compared to the two prior years, as well as a 185% increase in online distributive learning. Live/in person education represented just 1% of CAPCE-accredited refresher completions in 2020. What does this say about the future of EMS education? How does this trend away from live courses toward online education affect student retention, skills and evidence-based education? Is this the "new normal"?
Hosts Rob Lawrence and Maia Dorsett join the host of the PEC Podcast, Hawnwan Philip Moy, MD, FACEP, FAEMS to discuss these impressive numbers with the authors of the study:
Juan March, MD, FAEMS, FACEP, Chief, at ECU Division of EMS, CAPCE Board of Directors; Nicole Camarillo, Data Coordinator at CAPCE and Stephen Taylor, MHS, FAEMS, EMS Specialist at ECU Division of EMS.
PEC paper discussed on this episode:
March, J. A., Scott, J., Camarillo, N., Bailey, S., Holley, J. E., & Taylor, S. E. (2022). Effects of COVID-19 on EMS refresher course completion and delivery. Prehospital Emergency Care, 26(5), 617-622.
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48 min

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