Virtual reality is starting to take off in paramedic training. How can we can get in on the fun?

We got our hands on a fancy new camera and we're gonna use it!

READ ARTICLE

Staff Testing for COVID-19

To ensure staff have timely access to testing, staff can now self-screen and request testing, if needed, directly through the assessment centre.

READ ARTICLE

The launch of Fall CME is a week and a half away. We've been working steadily at preparing the Paramedics Delivering Palliative Care modules for a successful delivery on our MedicLEARN platform. At the same time, we're building almost half of the content from scratch for the rest of the 8 hours of online content. Expect staff associated with Fall CME to be heads down getting the final content ready and polishing the release versions of lessons.

READ ARTICLE

There's nothing like a familiar face. But, in paramedicine, seeing the same patient over and over is no comfort; it's a sign that something isn't going right.

READ ARTICLE

Our BIONIC woman

Barriers to change fall away in the face of a pandemic. COVID-19 has created the conditions for change, but organizations like ours also need to actively grab onto new ways of doing things.

One of the much-talked about changes is coming soon to the RPPEO. We will be the first to test a new provincial medical directive that will enable paramedics to discharge some patients from care without transporting them to an emergency room.

READ ARTICLE

A study out of the RPPEO is getting a boost among an important readership.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine has chosen an article from our research team for its 2022 EMS Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) Reading List.

Julie is the lead author on the publication, Characteristics, Prehospital Management, and Outcomes in Patients Assessed for Hypoglycemia: Repeat Access to Prehospital or Emergency Care. The study was published online in September, 2018 in the scientific journal Prehospital Emergency Care.

Read Article

We love it when things go according to plan!

After weeks in development, our first ever created-for-online Fall CME event is now live in MedicLEARN.

The 8 hours of video lessons, case studies and handouts launched on time on Wednesday, October 14.

Read Article

As Spring gives way to Summer in June, we'd like to start a new feature in the staff newsletter that's a little more focused on us, the people of the RPPEO. "Getting to Know Us" looks at what we the people of the RPPEO think and do and care about that isn't necessarily central to the work of paramedicine quality and education. It is central to each of us, though!

On Boxing Day, the Government-ordered shutdown of Ontario began. With new infections hovering near an average of 2.300 a day, deaths increasing to just under 50 a day, and hospitalizations due to COVID reaching about 1,000 each day, the system of alert levels is temporarily suspended. Public Health modelling suggests that Ontario infection rates have not yet peaked. All areas of the province are required to observe additional closures and stay-at-home advisories for non-essential outings until January 9, with all of southern Ontario under shutdown until January 23.

READ ARTICLE

In Celebration of National Health Ethics Week, the Champlain Centre for Health Care Ethics invites all staff to Attend Regional Ethics Rounds!

This month’s topic is “ Shooting for the moon – development and distribution of a vaccine in a global pandemic”

READ ARTICLE