The EMS Educator

Realism in EMS Simulation

Creating and managing realistic patient simulations is not an easy task.  EMS educators have a lot on their plate -- from designing the scenario to training facilitators to choosing the equipment to avoiding training scars.  What are best practices? We asked simulation gurus Brittany Prater, Director of Alabama EMS Region One and Robby May, ALS Education Specialist at Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue.  Listen as Rob, Maia and Hilary ask about the tricks of the trade and learn how to make your simulations prepare students for the real world.

Mentioned in the episode:

Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein 
https://www.amazon.com/Sources-Power-People-Make-Decisions/dp/0262611465

Society for Simulation in Healthcare 
https://www.ssih.org/

Healthy Simulation
https://www.healthysimulation.com/

I'm a New Medic. And I'm Scared to Death.

https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/emsworld/perspectives/im-new-medic-and-im-scared-death

Brittany.prater@calhoun.edu

robby.k.may@gmail.com

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The New NREMT Exams

On July 1, 2024, the NREMT will transition from the current psychomotor examinations to the new AEMT Certification Examination and new Paramedic Certification Examination.  According to the NREMT, this will "bring Paramedic and AEMT examinations in line with most other health-based professions, which have made similar updates in recent years, and matches the best research and science that’s currently available." 
What should educators be doing to prepare? How should students understand the change? What do we think will happen once the change is made?  
Hosts Maia Dorsett and Hilary Gates interview Paul Rosenberger, NREMT Examinations Content Manager and David Fifer, Assistant Professor in the Paramedic Program at Eastern Kentucky University to get the answers. 

Mentioned in the episode:

Follow David Fifer at https://x.com/DownToFifer

Davidfifer@eku.edu

Paul Rosenberger prosenberger@nremt.org

PEC Clinical Judgment paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10903127.2022.2048756

NAEMSE webinars: https://naemse.org/page/UpcomingWebinars

FAQs about this change can be found at: https://nremt.org/Document/ALS-Certification-Examination-FAQ

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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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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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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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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
kayarainshults@gmail.com

Paramedic Sam Fiorin
samuel.fiorin01@gmail.com

Dannie Wurtz, EMT-P, RN; CEO at International Medic Solutions

dannie@internationalmedicsolutions.com

Joe Wurtz, Co-Founder & COO at International Medic Solutions
joe@internationalmedicsolutions.com

Neil Noble, Managing Director at Australia EMS
neil.noble@australiaems.com.au

Jimmy Pierson, President & COO at Medic Ambulance Service
jpierson@medicambulance.net

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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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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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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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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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