Category Archives: Archived Webinars

Conversation with American Sirens Author Kevin Hazzard on the Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics

 Kevin Hazzard is a journalist, TV writer, and former paramedic who has written an essential book – American Sirens – chronicling the often overlooked and unknown origins of the paramedic profession. The story begins in 1968 when twenty-four Black men in Pittsburgh started a revolution in emergency medicine. They were the first to show that medicine…

Implementing the 2023 CAAHEP Standards & Guidelines for the EMS Professions

 Recorded on Nov. 8, 2023 Facilitators: Michael Miller, EdD, RN, NRP, Assistant Director, CoAEMSP Patricia Tritt, MA, RN, Technical Consultant, CoAEMSP Learn the implementation schedule Identify the changes to the CAAHEP Standards & Guidelines Discuss best practices for implementing the revised CAAHEP Standards & Guidelines The revised CAAHEP Standards for Paramedic programs, effective January…

Continuous Quality Review: Strategies to Improve the Educational Program

 Recorded August 2, 2023 Facilitators: Patricia Tritt, MA, RN, Technical Consultant, CoAEMSP Lisa Collard, AS, Assistant to Executive Director, CoAEMSP Programs should evaluate their services in a variety of ways, obtaining input from multiple sources. Assessment methods include resource assessment tools; regular surveys or evaluations from students; end-of-program evaluations from students; evaluations from students…

Fair Practices, CAAHEP Standard V

 Recorded June 28, 2023 Facilitators: Michael Miller, EdD, RN, NRP, Assistant Director, CoAEMSP Thomas Platt, EdD, NRP, Associate Dean for Academic Partnerships, University of Pittsburgh Objectives: Define the term fair practices. Analyze the components of the CAAHEP Standards regarding fair practices. Explain the importance of fair practices. Description: Fair practices encompass a variety of…

Resource Assessment: When, Why, and How…
 & the Resource Assessment Matrix

 Recorded December 7 2022 Mike Miller Effectively educating paramedic students is challenging, requiring many different resources. Each year paramedic programs are required to complete a Resource Assessment Survey of both program personnel and students. Survey results include 10 different component areas and are to be reported using the Resource Assessment Matrix. Annually assessing resources…

Satellites & Alternate Locations

 Mike Miller Pat Tritt Lisa Collard Lynn Caruthers Recorded on November 30, 2022 EMS education modalities continue to evolve from original single location classrooms to alternatives in delivery as technology grows. Changes may be driven by the availability of resources, workforce and agency needs, or by the desire of learners for a non-traditional learning…

Student Minimum Competency Recommendations: Are you ready?

 Recorded October 19, 2022 Mike Miller Pat Tritt The primary goal of any Paramedic education program is to assure students are competent at the end of the program of study. For many years the CoAEMSP has required programs to track and report minimum competencies for various age groups, complaints, and skills as specified originally…

Preceptors – A Cornerstone to a Successful Capstone Experience

 September, 2022 Kim McKenna Rick Ellis Jeff McDonald Megan Corry It is widely acknowledged that the capstone field experience represents the synthesis of all learning in a paramedic program. This phase of the program is critical to assess the paramedic student’s ability to integrate all elements of learning gained in the classroom, lab, clinical,…

Clinical Coordination

 Recorded on August 17, 2022 Facilitated by: Pat Tritt Student experiences in the clinical and EMS field environments are essential to developing critical thinking skills and the application of the theory and practice components of any Paramedic program. Program faculty play a key role in identifying appropriate partners for those rotations, scheduling students, and…