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• EMT 360: Don’t study hard, study smart

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  The flipped classroom challenges students to study smart, instead of merely memorizing facts and rote repetition of psychomotor skills

• Applying neuroscience to EMS training

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  Being sufficiently rested, revisiting the content and putting it into practice quickly all impact knowledge retention

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  How much do you know about clearing airway obstructions? (quiz)

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  Test your knowledge of different types of airway adjuncts, contraindications, monitoring techniques and more

• EMS World Expo Quick Take: EMS careers – Making the decision to stay or move on

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  Higher education, mentoring and when to move on: The NAEMT Board tackles EMS career development

• Entering phase 2 of EMS

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  2019 was a paradigm-shifting year for the EMS industry and profession – one that will set the pace for the next decade’s worth of ambition and work

• Marine veteran, 65, starts new career as paramedic

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  Curtis Raetz, a Marine pilot who served six years on active duty and retired from an IT career in 2015, became a certified paramedic after going back to school at 64

• Ala. hospital donates ambulance to benefit local EMS programs

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  The Helen Keller Hospital donated a 2007 Ford ambulance to Northwest-Shoals Community College EMS programs, which was without an ambulance for nearly 18 months

• Pa. officials approve bill to forgive student loans of volunteer first responders

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  The bill would create the First Responder Loan Forgiveness Program, under which college graduates could have up to $16,000 in loans forgiven

• Lack of EMT, paramedic certification renewals in Ark. spurs action

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  The Arkansas Department of Health reported that nearly 800 EMTs and paramedics have not renewed their license this year

• Pa. town implements multi-tier EMS approach, recruits college students

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  The Vernon Township Volunteer Fire Department upgraded its quick response unit, primarily run by college students, to increase staffing levels

• Mass. healthcare students are volunteering as EMTs

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  Swansea Ambulance Corps interns are working as EMTs to advance their careers in the medical field

• Wis. healthcare simulation center will open in 2020

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  Aspirus Riverview Hospital and Mid-State Technical College partnered to open a simulation center to train healthcare professionals

• Back to the advanced

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  We’ve all heard about getting ‘back to the basic,’ but sometimes paramedics need to make sure they get back to the advanced, as well

• New Ohio requirement mandates dispatchers be certified

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  The Ohio Department of Administrative Services gave all dispatch centers a deadline to either be EMD certified or to submit a timeline for compliance

• Degree requirements, Pink Floyd, and a seat at the adults’ table

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  Despite the growing pains and staffing shortages, degree requirements will improve EMS in the long-run

• Joint position statement released on paramedic degree requirements

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  The NAEMSE, NAEMSA and the International Association of Flight and Critical Care Paramedics said it’s time for paramedics to obtain an associate degree

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