The Ontario Base Hospital Group Education Subcommittee (OBHG ESC) has released its Companion Document for the Advanced Life Support Patient Care Standards version 5.1.
The Companion Document is an educational tool that helps to provide clarification on changes and updates to the Advanced Life Support Patient Care Standards.
We are seeking exceptional Primary and Advanced Care Paramedics to join our team as Education Facilitators.
As an Education Facilitator, you’ll take a lead role in strengthening paramedic practice across Eastern Ontario. Whether it’s through delivering Continuing Medical Education (CME) sessions or assessing paramedics during Entry to Practice Certification, this role offers a meaningful way to contribute to clinical excellence.
Facilitate engaging educational sessions for paramedics.
Conduct assessments of paramedic performance and certification readiness.
Support curriculum development and educational quality improvement.
Certified by RPPEO as a paramedic (ACP or PCP) with 3–5 years of experience.
Skilled in interpersonal communication, critical thinking, and conflict resolution.
Comfortable working independently and collaboratively.
Willing to travel within Eastern Ontario.
Experience in adult education is an asset.
📅 New Deadline to Apply: Monday, June 23, 2025, at 23:59
📧 Submit your resume and cover letter to: info@rppeo.ca
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The Ontario Base Hospital Group (OBHG) is recruiting Paramedic Advisors to provide frontline paramedic perspectives on key provincial committees. This is an opportunity for paramedics to directly influence education, data quality, and medical advisory decisions that shape paramedic practice across Ontario.
OBHG provides medical and operational advice to the Ministry of Health Emergency Health Services Division (MOH EHS). Paramedics are essential members of OBHG committees, ensuring that policy and clinical decisions reflect the realities of prehospital care.
Applicants must submit:
✔ A cover letter outlining their paramedic level, region, and interest in specific committees.
✔ A brief CV summarizing their experience.
✔ Letters of support from their EMS employer, Base Hospital, and at least one paramedic colleague.
Applications are due March 12, 2025. They open every three years. If you’re interested in contributing to provincial decision-making and paramedic practice improvements, this is your chance to step forward.
For full details, see the official call for applications in the PDF below!
The Ontario Base Hospital Group (OBHG) is seeking applications for new representation from front line paramedics for all provincial committees:
Term: April 1, 2024 – March 31, 2027
For more information about this opportunity and how to apply, please see the invitation on the OBHG website. Note that the application deadline is March 1, 2024.
More information about OHBG and its committees is available by visiting the Paramedics section of the OBHG website.
Remember when you could bring a page of notes into your math exam? Having all the formulas written out in your teeny-tiny scribble really helped not to forget that r was squared and c was a constant equal to the speed of light.
Now you've got a similar tool integrated into the Ontario Paramedic Clinical Guide.
The new tool isn't for math, though. The Ontario Base Hospital Group put the key highlights for applying the prehospital Canadian Triage and Acuity Score (CTAS) to your adult patients into graphic form.
Read more …OBHG's CTAS Cheat-Sheet
We're thrilled to share an exciting update that will improve patient care: the expansion of Online Medical Consultation (OMC) services to two more base hospitals - the Centre for Paramedic Education and Research (CPER) in Hamilton, and Health Sciences North (HSN) in Sudbury.
Palliative Care Treat & Refer Directives are now available.
The Palliative Care Medical Directives provide the standards of paramedic care for patients receiving palliative care who are attended by emergency paramedics participating in the Ministry of Health's special project, Paramedics Providing Palliative Care.
Ornge and NOSM U are collaborating on a study titled "Challenges in Recruitment and Retention of Paramedics: Insights and Solutions in Northern Ontario" and invite paramedics to participate. Your insights as paramedics are invaluable to understanding the challenges and exploring potential solutions for recruitment and retention in our region, particularly for flight paramedics.
This study aims to gather perspectives on the experiences, opportunities and challenges paramedics face in their career and their decisions to work or continue working in paramedicine. The insights gained will help inform strategies to improve these processes and better support paramedics in our region.
Your participation in this study is voluntary, and your decision to participate or not will not affect your current employment or future opportunities in any way. Participation involves completing an online survey that will take approximately 30 minutes. Your responses will remain confidential and will be used exclusively for research purposes. If you are interested in participating in the second part of the study, you may be invited to take part in a one-hour video-recorded interview to explore in greater depth the existing challenges in the recruitment and retention of paramedics in Northern Ontario.
For more information about the study and to participate, please review the Information Letter available online by clicking here. After reviewing the Information Letter, you may proceed to the survey.
Participants are free to skip any survey questions they do not wish to answer. However, once the survey is submitted, responses cannot be withdrawn, as the survey is not linked to any identifiable information. For the interview portion, participants may decline to answer any questions and can withdraw their responses from the study at any time. However, once the analysis process begins and the data is aggregated, withdrawal will no longer be possible.
In early April 2016, the RPPEO introduced a new tool for Paramedics wishing to report a concern or variance. The Self Report form has been used just over 1300 times to report concerns, variances, and most importantly to help improve patient safety for everyone involved. A very big thank you to everyone who has contributed over the past 4 years.
It is time to retire the Self Report form. In its place the RPPEO is launching a new tool, the Patient Safety Incident Report. This new tool will also replace the Patch Failure tool, and allow for paramedics to report on:
Read more …Patient Safety Incident Report
