We're eager to share the new 2019-2020 RPPEO Annual Report! Watch your email for the electronic report this week. We're putting the finishing touches on it and will be delivering it to the Ministry of Health this week, in plenty of time to meet the deadline tomorrow.
It's a new certification year! The annual maintenance of certification (MOC) deadline for paramedics to meet requirements for 2021 re-certification is behind us!
With nearly all requirements available to complete online, it was down to the wire for more paramedics than ever this year. Nearly 20% had not completed educational requirements by mid-January.
Our first Bite-sized Training held on July 17 was a success. Frank walked users through many of the features and lesser known functions of the MedicLEARN platform, which we also provide to our base hospital partners.
We're now diverting Ottawa General Hospital 911 patches to our new on-call patch physicians.
You may recall that we originally set up a new on-call system to have a dedicated physician taking calls for consultation from the COVID-19 auxiliary medical directive implementation project.
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!
To ensure staff have timely access to testing, staff can now self-screen and request testing, if needed, directly through the assessment centre.
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.
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.
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.
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.
