The EMS Educator

How can EMS educators and leaders help prevent bias in patient care? One way is to make the unconscious conscious.  We welcome guests Katie O’Connor, EMS Educator and simulation expert in LA County and Washington D.C.’s GWU, and Sahaj Khalsa, Santa Fe (NM) Community College's EMS Program Director.  Prodigy's Medical Director Dr. Maia Dorsett also weighs in. Our guests discuss the importance of definitions, why words matter and the prevalence of bias in simulation (racial, age, gender, etc.).  They give tips on how to normalize the discussion, destigmatize bias and not always use white male manikins.   If you’re an educator, chief, EMS employer, look at your data around this issue. Look at your scenarios and what they are reinforcing.  Your clinicians will respond and improve. Look for Part 2, Addressing Bias in Your Agency, to be released in July! Mentioned in the episode: Influence of patient race on administration of analgesia by student paramedics Get in touch with our guests: Sahaj Khalsa: @ssk040 Katie O'Connor: @kathleenoco maiadorsett@gmail.com  This podcast is sponsored by EMS Gives Life.  Would you consider becoming a living organ donor? Visit emsgiveslife.org for more info. Check out the Prodigy EMS Bounty Program! Earn a $1000 reward for your best talks! Get your CE at www.prodigyems.com.  Follow @ProdigyEMS on Twitter, FB, YouTube & IG.

Learn how to create effective, meaningful learning experiences for students in your EMS classroom. Hear from fellow educators about creative ways to implement FOAMed.  Benji McCollum, NRP, RN, Paramedic Program Director at Midlands Technical College describes teach-back presentations, using SMEs, and teaching hands-on skills in a virtual environment.  Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD, Prodigy EMS's Medical Director touts an evidence-based medicine curriculum that teaches research but always in the context of clinical care.  Tune in to learn more about activating and engaging lifelong learners. Mentioned in the episode: "Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning" by Roediger, et al "Sources of Power" by Gary Klein Reel Emergency Vodcast Get in touch with our guests: benjimccollum@gmail.com maiadorsett@gmail.com  This podcast is sponsored by EMS Gives Life.  Would you consider becoming a living organ donor? Visit emsgiveslife.org for more info. Check out the Prodigy EMS Bounty Program! $1000 reward for your best work! Get your CE at www.prodigyems.com.  Follow @ProdigyEMS on Twitter, FB, YouTube & IG.

EMS should use lights and sirens selectively, the same as any clinical intervention for our patients. On Feb. 14, 2022, leaders of many EMS associations published a statement calling for decrease in use of red lights and sirens for EMS responses and transports.  Data from NHTSA and Dr. Doug Kupas's seminal paper on the use of red lights and sirens in EMS that fewer than 7% of patients transported to the hospital with lights and sirens received a life-saving intervention upon arrival in the ED. Rob and Hilary interview two of the leaders of research and change on this topic: Brooke Burton, Quality Improvement & Controlled Substances Manager at Unified Fire Authority in Salt Lake City, Utah and Bryan Wilson, EM/EMS Physician at St. Luke's University Health Network and EMS Medical Director for City of Bethlehem EMS.  They discuss the need to educate the public and local governments that clinical care is more important than response times. Find out more about the NEMSQA Quality Improvement Initiative. Contact our guests at bryan.wilson@sluhn.org and bburton@unifiedfire.org. This podcast is sponsored by EMS Gives Life.  Would you consider becoming a living organ donor? Visit emsgiveslife.org for more info. Get your CE at www.prodigyems.com.  Follow @ProdigyEMS on Twitter, FB, YouTube & IG.

Prodigy EMS is proud to welcome our new medical director, Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD.  Maia chats with Rob and Hilary about her educational philosophies, especially around cultivating lifelong learning, creating psychological safety in the classroom, just culture and systems thinking.  Check out the PEC position paper Maia co-authored on going beyond skills training in EMS, and follow her on Twitter @maiadorsett. Want to check out the references? Here is the link to The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. Listen to Ginger Locke's Medic Mindset podcast episode on lift assists here.   Get your CE at www.prodigyems.com.  Follow @ProdigyEMS on Twitter, FB, YouTube & IG.

EMS brings innovation, nimbleness and much-needed value to the healthcare community with MIH/CP programs of various shapes and sizes.  So how can EMS organizations best prepare community paramedics for this expanded role? Rob and Hilary interview two originators of successful MIH/CP programs: Anne Jensen of San Diego FR and Adam Heinz of REMSA (Reno, NV).  Our discussion explores training, partnerships, resource management, funding, the Triple Aim, time scales, SDOH, and how to start up.  Because CPs "don't do easy." Reach Anne at ajensen@sandiego.gov and Adam at aheinz@remsa-cf.com This podcast is sponsored by EMS Gives Life.  Would you consider becoming a living organ donor? Visit emsgiveslife.org for more info. Get your CE at www.prodigyems.com.  Follow @ProdigyEMS on Twitter, FB, YouTube & IG.

EMS research should go hand-in-hand with our clinical training. It requires collaboration, context and curiosity.  How can educators best support research?  Satisfy student curiosity by encouraging them to research what interests them.  From who says prayers for patients to paramedics using marijuana to which suctions sucks better, conducting research and learning about our profession makes us all better. On Nov. 30, 2021, join your fellow EMS clinicians at the free 24-hour International Research Conference 2021: Global Developments in EMS Research.  You'll earn CE credit and hear topics such as monitoring the gazes of novice medics during defibrillation, suicidality and  compassion fatigue, how we should evaluate claims on social media, TXA and whole blood for trauma, and more.  These are new ideas, on the cutting edge of science, and not yet in textbooks. CE powered by Prodigy EMS.  In this episode, Rob Lawrence interviews the international panel of guests hosting this conference:  Julia Williams, Professor of Paramedic Science at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK; Linda Ross, Associate Professor & Deputy Head of the Paramedicine Department at Monash University in Australia; & David Page, Director of the Prehospital Care Research Forum at UCLA in the US. To see the agenda and register for the research conference, click here. Get your CE at www.prodigyems.com.  Follow @ProdigyEMS on Twitter, FB, YouTube & IG.

How do we improve the dismal 10% survival rate of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest? Who better to ask than 4-time SCA survivor and retired fire chief Wayne Kewitsch alongside emergency physician and Resuscitation Scientist Johanna Moore? Johanna focuses her cutting-edge research on perfusion and found that raising the head of the patient improves neurological outcomes. Wayne is now the Executive Director of MnFIRE, which focuses on firefighter health and wellness. Take a listen as Rob and Hilary dig into the power of education, changing culture, tech advances, and pigs.  Register for the free State of the Future of Resuscitation conference and earn free CAPCE credit on Oct. 20&21 from 1-4 CT. Hear Wayne, Johanna and other thought leaders talk about resuscitation excellence. This podcast is sponsored by EMS Gives Life.  Would you consider becoming a living organ donor? Visit emsgiveslife.org for more info. Get your CE at www.prodigyems.com.  Follow @ProdigyEMS on Twitter, FB, YouTube & IG.

Since 1970, the NREMT has been laying out the standards for minimum competency for the nation's EMS providers. Join us for an interview with Chief Certification Officer Mark Terry, where we pull back the curtain on the workings of the NREMT.  In 48 states, with more than 425,000 registered, NREMT made bold but necessary changes during the covid pandemic, including the recertification of a record number of providers.   This podcast is sponsored by EMS Gives Life.  Would you consider becoming a living organ donor? Visit emsgiveslife.org for more info. Get your CE at www.prodigyems.com.  Follow @ProdigyEMS on Twitter, FB, YouTube & IG.

In 1998, Ray Fowler & Paul Pepe created the Gathering of Eagles.  What has Ray learned over 22 years of educating docs & EMS providers?  Rob Lawrence & Hilary Gates get soundbites from the guru himself--you'll hear about Ectochrome, head-up CPR, interleaving, flip phones and Richard Feynman.  The 2021 Gathering of Eagles conference is now available online! For the first time ever, you can watch the entire conference online at your own pace, powered by Prodigy EMS. This podcast is sponsored by EMS Gives Life.  Would you consider becoming a living organ donor? Visit emsgiveslife.org for more info. Find the Gathering of Eagles content and more at www.prodigyems.com. Eagles registrants get automatic access to the online conference.  Follow @ProdigyEMS on Twitter, FB, YouTube & IG.

The pandemic ushered in a plethora of pivots in EMS education.  How did educators Tom Bouthillet, Paul Pepe and Peter Antevy put together 30 hours of free online education? What does the future of EMS education hold? Is it mostly online? Should we go back to in-person courses? Join hosts Hilary Gates and Rob Lawrence as they discuss with Tom and Peter EMS education models, quality control, culture hurdles and British tacos.  This podcast is sponsored by EMS Gives Life.  Would you consider becoming a living organ donor? Visit emsgiveslife.org for more info. Find the Refresh content and more at www.prodigyems.com. Follow @ProdigyEMS on Twitter, FB, YouTube & IG.