1/26/2016 EMS Training: "Flipping the Classroom"

This live webcast of EMS Live in Wisconsin was recorded on Tuesday, January 26, 2016.

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.

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