Guests: Lifestar EMS' Assistant Training Coordinator Tyler Christifulli and Field Training Educator Sam Ireland
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Do you need to rev up your EMS training program? Are you looking for ways to engage your staff and get attendance and the discussion to a higher level at training events? If so, then this EMS Live in Wisconsin webcast, recorded on Tuesday, January 26, is for you.
Our guests included two individuals with Lifestar EMS in West Bend, WI - Assistant Training Coordinator Tyler Christifulli and Field Training Educator Sam Ireland. They discussed how they have successfully been using field educators at their base locations, and also sending out to staff pre-training podcasts to encourage education and discussion. They call their program, "Flipping the classroom".
Lifestar's approach to EMS education included the following:
Identifying the epidemic of bad teaching practices that surround EMS.
- Using old power points
- Strict outlines
- Crowded slides
What has Lifestar done to reinvent the way we approach education?
- Field Educators
- White boards
- Flipping the classroom
- Simplified power points and flip chart
The techniques of running a good simulation.
- You don't need expensive equipment to run a good sim
- Video recording and critique playback
- Always succeed in simulations
- Takes a lot of preparation to run an efficient and dynamic simulation.
To view and listen to the February 2016 pre-training podcast, "Patterns, Pathways, and Pain", as an example, completed by Lifestar EMS, click here.
The next live webcast is Tuesday, February 9 starting at 9:00 a.m. with State of Wisconsin EMS Office Licensing Manager Helen Pullen. All individual EMTs, paramedics and first responders must renew their individual license by June 30, 2016 to continue to operate with their local ambulance service or deliver patient care in Wisconsin. The dial-in number is 646-929-1081 or listen on any internet connected device at http://tobtr.com/8255159.
Join co-hosts Chris Anderson, Joe Covelli, Patrick Ryan, Dan Williams and call-in guests and live listeners for 40-minutes of conversation about emergency medical services and the ambulance industry in Wisconsin the second and fourth Tuesday every month.
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