Download this show to your MP3 player and listen as you go for a walk, jog, run, or bicycle ride. In our 50th episode Paramedic, Fitness Expert, and Educator Bryan Fass discusses the importance of fitness and wellness for educators and field personnel. Some of the important topics in this episode include:

• Validity of fitness testing
• Injury risk from fitness testing
• Exercise that reflects actual work
• Healthy eating for weight control and loss
• Sustaining a fitness program

This is also our 50th episode celebration. Listen to the end for details on how to have the EMSEduCast co-hosts guest lecture in your EMS classroom.

Please connect with us on Facebook and talk with our EMS educator listeners from around the world.

Cast:

• Bryan Fass – connect at FirePoliceEMSFitness.net and FitResponder Blog
• Greg Friese – connect at EverydayEMSTips.com
• Rob Theriault – connect at Paramedic Tutor
• Bill Toon – connect on Twitter, @wftoon

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Veteran paramedic, educator, and risk management expert Jim Love is the guest on episode 48 of the EMSEduCast. Most recently Jim was the national risk management director for AMR. Jim, Rob, Bill, and Greg discuss the challenges of safety education, the importance of role modeling, and things that work well for safety education. Jim also mentioned a survey he is conducting about transport of infant patients in ambulances. Please take the survey at EMSSafety.net.

We were also joined by an active live audience in the chat room. Each week we broadcast live at 2000 CST time. Browse to http://emseducast.com/live for the live stream and interactive chat room.

Cast:

• Jim Love - emsafety.net and Email Jim Love
• Greg Friese – connect at EverydayEMSTips.com
• Rob Theriault - connect at Paramedic Tutor
• Bill Toon – connect on Twitter, @wftoon

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Is it possible to evaluate students in all domains – cognitive, affective, and psychomotor?

Is it possible to train EMTs to both pass the national certification exam and be clinically competent for the first day on the job?

Listen to how Art Hsieh discuss evaluation tools and techniques for all domains and the goals of the San Francisco Paramedic Association to develop students that excel at test taking and are job ready.

Art Hsieh is the CEO of the San Francisco Paramedic Association. (SFParamedics.org). The SFPA trains more than 10,000 students per year and serves a population of 9 million people in the Bay area of California.

Make sure you listen close for Art’s conversations with the hosts about:

• using a normative process to construct evaluations
• peer-to-peer evaluations of the affective domain
• frequency of testing
• importance of using computer based testing
• effort it takes to create evaluations that are useful and unbiased

Featuring:
Art Hsieh – SFParamedics.org
Greg Friese – connect at EverydayEMSTips.com
Rob Theriault (off sick tonight) – connect at Paramedic Tutor
Bill Toon – connect on Twitter, @wftoon

Dr. Mickey Eisenberg, an EMS medical director, long-time researcher of survival factors from sudden cardiac arrest, and author of Resuscitate!: How Your Community Can Improve Survival from Sudden Cardiac Arrest was our guest on Episode 45. In this episode we conclude our three part between semester examination of sudden cardiac arrest and the role of trainers and educators to understand the problem and increase survival. Episode 43 (journal club 2) was a review of research. Episode 44 was a discussion about how to prepare and engage students as team leaders during cardiac arrest calls.

One of the topics of this episode was the King County Resuscitation Academy

Featuring:
Dr. Mickey Eisenberg
Greg Friese
Rob Theriault
Bill Toon

This week we talk with Zachary Hilton about how he got a very successful journal club going in San Francisco.

Hosts:
Greg Friese
Rob Theriault
Chris Montera
Steve Whitehead
Buck Feris

Rich Beebe, EMS/Paramedic Program Director, Center for Rural EMS Education, Basset Healthcare, http://www.cremse.org/

Rich is a co-presenter for a NAEMSE 2009 day long preconference called EMS Instructor Boot Camp. The afternoon is dedicated to psychomotor skills instruction. We discussed with Rich how new EMS instructors can best learn to teach psychomotor skills through instruction, mentoring, and observation.

Featuring:
Greg Friese
Buck Feris
Rob Theriault
Ted Setla
Rich Beebe

This week we talk with Heather Davis about training the trainers and how important it is to get quality trainers in the field.

Guest: Heather Davis who is the Program Director of the Daniel Freeman
Paramedic Education Program at UCLA.

Hosts: Greg Friese and Buck Feris

UCLA Website: http://www.cpc.mednet.ucla.edu/SRRS/
UCLA Prehospital Care Research Forum: http://www.pcrf.mednet.ucla.edu/pcrf/
Open Airways:

http://www.emsresponder.com/interactive/category/open-airways/

EMSEduCast concludes its summer session on clinical training and field preceptorship with a discussion with Bruce Nepon and Tracy Collins about selecting, training, and evaluating preceptors and clinical faculty. Bruce and Tracy have decades of experience as field providers and educators in the classroom, lab, hospital, and field.

Featuring:
Greg Friese
Bruce Nepon
Tracy Collins

This week we discuss how FISDAP can make your life easier as an educator in EMS. FISDAP is a web-based software program for scheduling ride-alongs and clinical rotations, as well as tracking student skills. Michael and Sara join the EMSEduCast team to discuss FISDAP, its history, how it is used, and the importance of clinical tracking.

Featuring:
Buck Feris
Greg Friese
Rob Theriault
Chris Montera
Michael Johnson, President, FISDAP
Sara Houston, Durham Technical Community College EMS