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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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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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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, DOhttps://twitter.com/EMtgDO
Nancy Duarte: Resonate
How to Write Learning Objectives
The Affective Domain of Education
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This podcast is sponsored by EMS Gives Life.  Would you consider becoming a living organ donor? For more info visit www.emsgiveslife.org
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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 Shultskayarainshults@gmail.com
Paramedic Sam Fiorinsamuel.fiorin01@gmail.com
Dannie Wurtz, EMT-P, RN; CEO at International Medic Solutions
dannie@internationalmedicsolutions.com
Joe Wurtz, Co-Founder & COO at International Medic Solutionsjoe@internationalmedicsolutions.com
Neil Noble, Managing Director at Australia EMSneil.noble@australiaems.com.au
Jimmy Pierson, President & COO at Medic Ambulance Servicejpierson@medicambulance.net
This podcast is sponsored by EMS Gives Life.  Would you consider becoming a living organ donor? For more info visit www.emsgiveslife.org
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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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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
 
This podcast is sponsored by EMS Gives Life.  Would you consider becoming a living organ donor? For more info visit www.emsgiveslife.org
Check out the Prodigy EMS Bounty Program! Earn $1000 for your best talks!
Get your CE at www.prodigyems.com  Follow @ProdigyEMS on Twitter, FB, YouTube & IG.