Recorded July 8, 2021
Megan Corry, EdD, NRP and Doug York, NRP, PS
Maintaining accreditation of a Paramedic program is the primary responsibility of the program director. Join Megan and Doug to learn about best practices, including:
Your site visitors inquire how you document the progression of student learning. What are they asking for and how can you demonstrate that your program is not just focused on checking the boxes, but on communication among faculty, including the Medical Director, and monitoring student progression in attaining competencies in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains?
Speaker: Lori Burns
Moderator: Jennifer Anderson Warwick
Recorded December 2, 2020
Accredited Paramedic educational programs must ensure that clinical and field educators who evaluate students have completed preceptor orientation/training. Sometimes the program provides that orientation/training directly and other times the clinical site or field agency provides their own program. How can a program director ensure that quality training is provided, and all preceptors complete this orientation/training? Learn about how other programs structure their preceptor orientation/training, track completions, and ensure quality with outside agency training. Discuss issues around preceptor competency and maintenance of training over time.
Speaker: Patricia Tritt
Moderator: Jennifer Anderson Warwick
Recorded October 14, 2020.
Site visits can appear to be a mystery and the Program Director wonders “What will they be looking for?” The answer is fairly simple, and the self-study and site visit process is actually an open book test. The CAAHEP Standards and Guidelines and the CoAEMSP Interpretation documents provide the “test items” and the Executive Analysis raises potential problems the Program has the opportunity to address prior to the site visit. When the Program adopts the “accreditation is an everyday activity” philosophy, the necessary evidence is compiled throughout the accreditation cycle. This presentation will explore the most frequently occurring citations and review the keys to avoid succumbing to these pitfalls.
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Facilitators:
Paul Berlin & George Hatch
Recorded Sept. 3, 2020.
Chair of the Board Chief Paul Berlin and Executive Director Dr. George Hatch will provide an update on the activities of the Committee on Accreditation of EMS Professions (CoAEMSP) and discuss the strategic outlook of the organization moving EMS education via credible education.
This is an opportunity to discuss issues, including hearing from the CoAEMSP’s communities of interest on topics of importance; seeking an understanding of the goals and values of the CoAEMSP; asking questions of the CoAEMSP leadership and give feedback; informing Paramedic educational programs about emerging issues in accreditation; informing the CoAEMSP about emerging issues from the perspective of programs; gauging where the communities of interest stand on certain subjects; and serving as a place to identify possible solutions to a problem.
Facilitators:
Mike Miller & Joe Mistovich
Recorded July 30, 2020.
The CoAEMSP has adopted through policies interpretations of the CAAHEP Standards and Guidelines for the Accreditation of Educational Programs in the Emergency Medical Services Professions. The purpose of the interpretations is to assist Paramedic programs in understanding and maintaining compliance with the new CAAHEP Standards. The interpretations include examples of how programs may choose to demonstrate compliance with each standard. We will share best practices on how your program can use the interpretations to its advantage.
Facilitators:
Jeff McDonald & Doug York
Recorded July 23, 2020.
Ever wondered what the best steps are after you receive the Executive Analysis (EA) for the program’s self-study report? After the initial shock that your self-study report wasn’t as perfect as you thought it’s time to look at the EA as a tool that can make the site visit go from stressful to just another visit by friends. The CoAEMSP returns the EA to the program as a tool to allow the program time to correct areas of concern identified in the self-study report, in order to improve the overall outcome of the accreditation process.
Watch this informative webinar that addresses the best ways to put the Executive Analysis to work for you. We look at how the EA is developed and talk about what we, the Reader, see in the self-study report. We will look at the more common areas of concern; and just maybe we’ll take some of the blame for simply not understanding your answers to the questions we asked. In the end, we hope you will see the EA as a tool to improve the ease of your site visit and make your journey through the accreditation process as smooth as possible.
Facilitator:
Pat Tritt
Recorded July 16, 2020.
Often the hardest part of any project is organizing a plan to get started. The action plan the CoAEMSP has developed breaks the activities into phases and identifies the activity and associated resources, such as the location on the CoAEMSP website that will provide the necessary information. We will share best practices for developing and implementing an action plan for your program’s next comprehensive review, from writing the self-study report through to responding to the site visit findings.
Slides: Program Director Responsibilites
Frequent Citations and How to Address Them in Advance - PowerPoint