Crossfit: A Fitness Program Well-suited to EMS Professionals
Kris Kaull describes the challenges and benefits of the Crossfit training program. Crossfit combines strength, endurance, aerobic, and flexibility exercises into a functional fitness routine. Kris shares this explanation just after Greg Friese had his first Crossfit experience with Kris at the 2009 National Association of EMS Educators conference.
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Using Medical Images in Education
In teaching, we communicate both orally and verbally when describing our patients. For instance, a patient having an acute myocardial infarction would be described in lectures and on slides as pale, diaphoretic, and with Levine's sign. The problem -- especially to the new EMS provider -- is that these terms are ambiguous as the provider may have yet to ever encounter them. So why not use photography to visually demonstrate those concepts that you are trying to describe through words? Taking your own photographs will allow you to take case-based learning and student-instructor interaction to the next level.
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National Accreditation of Paramedic Education Programs
Dr. George Hatch, Executive Director for the Committee on Educational Programs for the EMS Professions (CoAEMSP), discusses the CAAHEP accreditation process and what it means to paramedic educational programs. The role of accreditation, its impact on paramedic education programs, some of its biggest challenges, and how to get started on self-study are discussed. If you want to know more about the efforts to provide CAAHEP programmatic accreditation to every paramedic educational program throughout the nation by 2013, please tune in to this program.
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Leadership in Emergency Services
Emergency services is steeped in the tradition of command and control, and today that scheme is still essential. However, using command and control in the non-emergent sector of our careers is nothing more than intimidation. This short interview takes a look at how the leadership paradigm is shifting away from the "do as I say" attitude to the "we can together" attitude. As educators, we play a key role in changing these attitudes.
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The Active vs. Passive Learner: Using Games to Teach
John Dillon, a paramedic, educator, and the founder of C3 SoftWorks, discusses the basic principles of how he uses games to teach content in the classroom. In this interview, John discusses the importance of turning your students from passive learners into active learners.
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Suspension Syndrome
This video describes Suspension Syndrome, a "Rescue Death" that occurs with patients who are trapped immobile in an upright position. Patients may appear to be uninjured at the time of rescue but still at high risk of sudden death if normal rescue actions are taken.
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