Education

Identifying effective paramedic leadership skills

A literature search using Medline, PubMed and Scopus with the keywords ‘Emergency Medical Services’, ‘Paramedic’, ‘Leadership’, ‘EMS’, and ‘Leadership...

How report writing supports paramedic students' learning

The present study is grounded in the fields of writing studies and technical communication, two related fields where researchers study writers'...

A novel approach to problem-based learning in a paramedicine programme

The educational design for this course was progressively reviewed and improved over a 3-year period. The senior lecturer in the course and the...

Exploring empathy levels among Canadian paramedic students

The aim of the current study was to assess empathy scores of first and second year paramedic students at Fanshawe College in Ontario, Canada. The...

Evaluation of a paramedic student patient hand-off curriculum using simulation

This is a 25-year-old male trauma patient who was the backseat passenger in a head-on motor vehicle collision. He has a GCS of 9 with pain in his...

Credits granted for professional education of paramedics and nurses at at US colleges with paired programmes

Both paramedics and registered nurses may be educated through certificate/diploma programmes, through associate degree programmes, and through...

Use of a nominal group technique to evaluate a remote area simulation event for paramedicine students

The results (Figure 4) indicate that the dominant positive themes of this workshop were the use of challenging and realistic scenarios, the commitment...

Interprofessional graduate programme for nursing-paramedicine degree graduates: work outcomes and participant experience

The aim of this study was to examine the employment outcomes and participant experience of the first cohort of 10 IPG participants following...

Length of professional education of paramedics and nurses at community colleges in the Northeast United States

Paramedics have provided advanced pre-hospital emergency medical care in the US since the early 1970s (National Highway Safety Traffic Administration...

A simulated wilderness exercise: the development of relational competence in paramedic students

The concept of work-readiness refers to the paramedic graduate's capacity to transfer their entry-level qualifications and job-specific competence to...

A survey of community paramedicine course offerings and planned offerings

This research survey was developed and delivered by a multi-agency and multi-disciplinary health care research team, comprised of four paramedics,...

Work readiness in paramedic graduates: what are employers looking for?

The aim of the study was to investigate the perceptions of employers from the state and territories’ ambulance services as the key employers of...

An evaluation of high fidelity simulation training for paramedics in Ireland

Simulation does not merely focus on procedural skills or performance; rather it has a much broader perspective incorporating the affective, cognitive...

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