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Teaching Evidence Based Medicine: Episode 172
In this episode of the EMSEduCast returning guest Bradley Dean discusses with Bill, Rob, and David teaching evidence based medicine. Resource Information discussed ‘Medical research made easy‘ – Vol. 27, No. 4 – Spring 2013 Simple Steps Toward Evaluating Medical Research 1. Is the paper from a credible source? 2. Is the subject of the research applicable to the practice of EMS? 3. Is the design of the study appropriate to answer the question being asked? 4. Are variables controlled closely enough to ensure reliability of results? 5. How conclusive are the results? 6. Are the conclusions logical? 7. What [...]
Training Employees to use Workplace Software: Sponsored Post
EMS agency employees, volunteers, and even students are expected to use lots of software to perform their jobs effectively. Between electronic patient care reports, computer based training, incident tracking, and shift scheduling EMS personnel spend a lot of time online. How do you ensure they are trained and properly using the software required of their position? Start by selecting software that is intuitive and thoughtfully designed to minimize the time spent searching for the right menu or drop down. Regularly used functionality should only be a click or two away. Give personnel and students access to a practice environment where [...]
Airway Instruction: Episode 171
On this episode our own Bill Toon discusses his EMS experience and specifically his role teaching and facilitating airway management skills to employees of Johnson County Med-Act. This episode of the EMSEduCast is sponsored by EMS Manager. Start your free trial today. Links and Resources Airway World The only virtual knowledge and collaboration center dedicated to airway management. Airway Cam: Practical Solutions for Emergency Airways Johnson County Med-Act The Power of Video Recording from JAMA Recommendations Bill – One Last Teaching Moment JAMA David - Greg - Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready Rob – MCI Triage app iOS Connect with Us EMSEduCast on [...]
Missouri ICE Conference: Episode 170
In this episode of the EMSEduCast friend of the show and educator Brian Lilley asks the presenters at the Missouri Instructor Coordinator conference to share their presentation topics and web resources. Brian, thanks for the contribution! If you would like to record an episode of the EMSEduCast mini email your idea to greg@gregfriese.com. Links and Resources Missouri ICE Conference Brian Lilley (EMS EduCast guest for Ep. 133) brian.s.lilley@gmail.com Twitter: @edumedic http://edumedicblog.com/ Chris Cebellero (EMS EduCast guest for Ep. 70) cebolleroc@gmail.com Twitter: @ChiefofEMS https://www.facebook.com/EmsRoundtable http://www.emsleadership.com/ Janet Taylor (EMS EduCast guest for Ep. 144) flygirltaylor@yahoo.com http://www.emsteacher.com/ Kelly Grayson (EMS EduCast guest for Ep. 33, [...]
Autism Education for EMS Personnel: Episode 169
In this episode of the EMSEduCast mini we discuss the need to add Autism Education to our EMT and Paramedic Education. Our students will be in the field soon enough and may be faced with an individual diagnosed with Autism. Unique conditions exist that require an ability to communicate to help individuals with autism that may be ill or injured. We look at resources that are available to our students in helping develop a lesson plan guided towards helping those with a condition that now affects approximately 1 in 50 individuals. Autism Speaks – www.autismspeaks.org American Society of America – [...]
Ambulance Science Fellowship: Episode 168
In this episode of the EMSEduCast we discuss the Ambulance Science Fellowship with Professor Scot Phelps. Scot Phelps is a full-time Professor of Ambulance Science and teaches the both the Ambulance Science Fellowship and the Disaster Science Fellowship at the Emergency Management Academy. He has been working on ambulances since 1983 and has been a paramedic since 1988. Show Links: Emergency Management Academy (PDF brochure) Ambulance Science Fellowship (PDF brochure) which also includes list of MS and BS degree programs National EMS Managers Association NEMSMA list serv PONSI/National College Credit Recommendation Service website Radiohead In Rainbows experiment – NPR Article Recommendations from our [...]
Embedded EMS Librarian: Episode 167
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In this episode of the EMSEduCast we visit with Kacy Allgood, MLS, the ambulance riding librarian. Kacy shares with us the ins and outs of her position as an embedded librarian with Indianapolis EMS and her participation in their research about community paramedicine.
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Kacy Allgood, MLS is an embedded librarian for the Indiana University Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Out-of-Hospital Care, Indianapolis EMS, the Indiana Emergency Medical Services for Children and MESH, a disaster preparedness agency. She received her Bachelor of Business in 2003 and Masters of Library Science in 2007 from Indiana University (IU). She spent four years as a medical librarian for IU, and was once an EMT. In 2012, she was awarded the Sewell Fellowship for embedded medical librarians.
Show links:
- Ambulance riding librarian blog
- EMSWorld.com profile of the Ambulance Riding Librarian
- Q and A for the ambulance riding librarian
- Indianapolis Fire Department
- Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund for medical and health care librarians
- Indiana University School of Medicine Medical Library
- Medical Library Association
- Pub Med - world’s largest biomedical database
- Pub Med Central
- Medline Plus
- National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)
- The Cochrane Collaboration
- Google Scholar
- ERIC – Education Resources Information Center
- Disaster Information Specialist
- MESH Coalition
- EMS Education Agenda for the Future
- Evidence-Based Medicine
: How to Practice and Teach it, 4e
Recommendations:
- FireStrong – to build a better you
- 2013 Gathering of Eagles presentations
- Mill Hill Avenue Command blog
- Paramedicine 2013 conference
- ibook shelf app
- iTunesU
- EMS Museum app
- ACS Trials app
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Questions from a new EMS Educator: Episode 166
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On this episode of the EMSEduCast – the podcast by and for EMS educators – Clark Imus, a relatively new EMS educator, asks his top questions to Bill Toon, Rob Theriault, and Greg Friese. It was a great set of questions and a lively conversation from the co-hosts.
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About Clark Imus: My career in EMS began early in my life, not that I’m that old. I began my training while in high school within a career technology program and just after turning 18 I received my EMT license. Then I began working for Van Burn EMS, Paw Paw MI. I then completed my paramedic training at Kellogg CC. Shortly after I receiving my paramedic license I completed my critical care paramedic course. I then felt as if I could help support the career of EMS providers by improving the education that the upcoming EMS students. I completed my Instructor Coordinator course and begin teaching with Kellogg CC. After about three years of teaching with KCC I was offered a position at Jackson CC as the EMS program director. Email Clark at ImusClarkA@jccmi.edu
Links and resources:
- Free Open Access Meducation
- #FOAMED (Twitter hashtag)
- Basic Computer Self-Assessment
- Coach’s Eye smartphone app
Recommendations:
- Ten Steps for Improving Survival from Sudden Cardiac Arrest by Mickey Eisenberg, MD & Resuscitation Academy Faculty. ***This book is available for FREE download on your iPad with iBooks or on your computer with iTunes (direct iTunes link).***
- Video of Taney County Ambulance performing Cardiocerebral Resuscitation Pit Crew
- Teaching Excited Delirium and more with Episode 72
- ECG Rhythm & Monitor Simulator
Past episodes of the EMSEduCast we discussed on this episode:
- Games and education: episode 34
- Teaching technology: episode 51
- Facebook use by faculty: episode 54
- Excited delirium: episode 72
- Teaching the tough stuff: episode 77
- The expectation is clear expectations: episode 109
- Case based learning: episode 119
- Show me ideas for EMS education: episode 144
- A better way to teach ethics: episode 153
CISM in the Classroom: Episode 165
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On this Episode of the EMS Educast Mini, we talk about the need to establish a working partnership with CISM professionals. As educators we are taking young minds never before exposed to the field of pre-hospital care and placing them in environments that are mentally challenging and may discourage them from attending the remainder of their course. Having Fire Service or EMS agency chaplains available, or partnering with a mental health professional that is training in critical incident stress situations will ensure that our students receive the care necessary to make them great EMT’s.
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EVENT Reports as an EMS Education Tool: Episode 164
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In this episode of the EMSEduCast we discuss the EMS Voluntary Event Notification Tool with guests Matt Womble, Gary Wingrove, and Bradley Dean. Co-hosts Greg Friese and Rob Theriault are joined by EMSEduCast mini host David Blevins.
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Guests
- Matt Womble, MHA, Paramedic (womble407@gmail.com and www.linkedin.com/in/
mattwomble/) - Gary Wingrove (wingrove.gary@mayo.edu) is president of the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Research in EMS (CLIR). In addition to EVENT and EMERG, CLIR also operates an administrative EMS benchmarking service and is partner with the University of Pittsburgh in the EMS Agency Research Network.
- Bradley Dean, (email instructoremtp@yahoo.com and Facebook), started with the Thomasville Rescue Squad, in Thomasville, NC in the mid 90′s. He went to to work for Davidson County Emergency Services in 1996, has authored several articles, and has been a technical reviewer for several publishers of EMS Textbooks, and teaches at several colleges in central North Carolina as an adjunct faculty member. Currently he serves as the Training Officer for Rowan County Emergency Services.
Links
- EMS Voluntary Event Notification Tool (E.V.E.N.T.).
- Report an EVENT
- 2012 EVENT Reports
- EMS Update 2013
- Educators and students practice entering EMS patient safety reports and near misses from your lab and classroom experiences
- Teaching Tips for the Tough Stuff: Episode 77 with Bradley Dean
- Near Miss and Incident Reporting: Episode 136 with Matt Womble
- Paramedicine 2013 conference
- Top Hat Monocle Classroom Response System
- 9th Annual IRCP Meeting
- JEMS March 2013 article, Mission Lifeline Recognition Program (need link)
- You Need a Budget
Book Recommendations (Amazon affiliate links)
The recommendations and endorsements from our guests and hosts.
- Magic of Thinking Big
- Teaming
: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy
- Tipping Point
: How Little Things Make a Big Difference
- Total Money Makeover
: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
What is EVENT?
- EMS Voluntary Event Notification Tool
- System to collect and utilize information from untoward events to help improve consistency and quality of EMS care
- Anonymous, non-punitive, confidential
- Help identify needed changes in systems and processes without placing blame on individual providers
- Modeled after Pennsylvania system
Who developed EVENT?
- Center for Leadership, Innovation and Research in EMS
- National Association of EMT’s
- National EMS Management Assn
- Paramedic Chiefs of Canada
- National Association of State EMS Officials
- North Central EMS Institute
How does it work?
- Provider submits report on event via EVENT website
- Report reviewed by CLIR staff
- Report sent to State EMS agency
- Events posted to Google Group
- Aggregate Reports
Who can submit a report?
- Any individual who encounters a problem or recognizes a situation in which a safety event occurred
- EMS Providers (any level)
- Supervisory personnel
- Persons involved in care of patient post-EMS
Types of Reports
- Patient Safety Event – Event/action leads to worsened patient outcome
- Near Miss Event – An unplanned event that did not result in injury, illness, or damage, but had the potential to do so. Only a fortunate break in the chain of events prevented an injury, fatality or damage.
- Line of Duty Death – Designed by EMS practitioners to share information regarding line of duty deaths
- Recalls -Ambulance and EMS Equipment recall notices are sent to the State agency and posted on Google Groups and the E.V.E.N.T. website
