Bob Matoba

Instructor's Edge

Bob Matoba, MEd, EMT-P, serves as lead instructor for the St. Anthony Paramedic Academy in Lakewood, Colorado. His career has spanned almost every aspect of the EMS profession, first as an EMT and paramedic for private ambulance companies, EMS coordinator for medical oversight, EMS system consultation in the private and public sector, all the way to the EMS chief for a metropolitan fire department.

He has made it his mission to educate clinicians, rather than technicians. He strives to provide education that has relevance and takes pride in the fact of continuing to be an actively practicing paramedic on an ambulance.

Full list of Bob Matoba results

Discriminatory item analysis: A test administrator’s best friend
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Analyzing test question performance can help EMS educators identify where students are missing concepts and to remove the emotional burden from grading
The subtle art of instructional judo
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Examining the motivation behind disruptive students, and addressing their needs in the EMS classroom
Applying schoolhouse theory to magnesium and chloride
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Understanding the cellular action potential can help EMS providers determine why patients present with certain clinical findings
Quiz: Magnesium and chloride cellular action potential
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Test your knowledge on how the schoolhouse theory applies to the cellular physiology of magnesium
Quiz: Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
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Test your knowledge of complex neural systems to understand the link between treatments and therapeutic goals
Understanding the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
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Knowledge of complex neural systems can help paramedics link medications to therapeutic goals
Quiz: Depolarization and polarization — cellular action potential
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Take this quiz to test your knowledge of sodium, potassium and calcium cellular action potentials
Let’s get cellular: Teaching cellular action potential with the schoolhouse theory
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Learning how sodium, potassium and calcium interact will help EMS providers understand the effects on patient physiology and pharmacology