MedicNEWS for January 2025
Welcome to the January 2025 edition of MedicNEWS! Dive into this issue filled with practical insights, professional updates, and intriguing stories. Here’s what’s inside:
In this issue
- Continuing Education: Unlock 18 hours of elective CME credit available online with just a few clicks, including insightful Critical Levels podcasts. Discover how to enhance your educational journey this year.
- Medical Direction – Feedback for Growth: Dr. Mike Austin takes you into the science and art of giving and receiving feedback, featuring two fascinating paramedic characters, Alex and Brenda, and their post-call reflections. Learn how constructive dialogue can transform patient outcomes and team dynamics.
- Certification – January 31 Deadline: The clock is ticking for your Maintenance of Certification. Get advice on meeting the deadline. And, learn about new Suboxone authorization that expands your scope of practice.
- Pharmacology Resources: Navigate medication information with ease using Health Canada’s Drug Product Database and RPPEO’s Drug Availability Database (DAD). These tools are designed to support informed clinical decisions.
- Research Highlights: From AI-driven cardiac assessments to the expansion of community paramedicine, explore cutting-edge research that’s shaping paramedic practice in Ontario and beyond.
- OMC does YouTube: The base hospital physicians are turning the camera on themselves in a new YouTube channel. Be the first to like, comment and follow OMC YouTube!
- News Nuggets: Bite-sized updates from around the world, including an inquest that sheds light on the complexities of rare stroke cases and the curious use of ambulances in Australia for non-emergency calls.
- Removing Barriers: Discover RPPEO’s new Accessibility of Base Hospital Services Policy, a transformative step toward equitable and inclusive support for paramedics with disabilities.
We hope this issue inspires, informs, and equips you for another year of exceptional care. Dive in and explore!