Extracurricular Education

[BGD Medic]

Hey there everyone how's it going. I became a licensed emt a few months ago, have not been able to find a job, so I have just been finishing up my degree and waiting for an interview. Do you guys/girls go to a specific place to keep up with your education? I'm new to the site so I haven't been able to give this site a chance yet but it definitely looks like a place where people can constantly learn. Any other sites or what not that you guys prefer?

 

[bstone]

I use emcert.com for a lot of ConEd.

 

[mgr22]

Lots of smart people here; also on JEMSConnect. JEMS and EMS Magazine are good ways to review, too. Conference attendance helps, if you spend more time in the classrooms than on the exhibit floors. I still find there's no substitute for going back to the books periodically.

 

[VentMedic]

If you must read JEMS and EMS Mag, at least pull up the references from other journals to see if you get the same information. Sometimes the authors of these magazines tend to put their own interpretation of the research article and totally miss the point.

Here are some other journals you might check out. Some of the articles found in these journals can at least give you an idea for what you might want to learn more about.

Prehospital Emergency Care
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713698281

Resuscitation - European Journal - see what other countries are doing. RESUSCITATION is the official Journal of the European Resuscitation Council. It is also interesting to look up what and who makes up EMS in another country when you do find an interesting article.

Signup and you will at least be able to see the abstracts.

http://www.resuscitationjournal.com/


Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
http://www.sjtrem.com/

Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ)- an international peer review journal covering pre-hospital and hospital emergency medicine, and critical care.
http://emj.bmj.com/

Here's an interesting article about studying oxygen and AMIs.
http://emj.bmj.com/content/27/4/283.abstract

Objective To explore the feasibility of conducting an RCT of oxygen versus air in AMI, by exploring the beliefs of UK professionals who treat patients with AMI about oxygen's benefits, and to establish a baseline of reported practice by asking about their use of oxygen.

Conclusion Widespread belief in the benefit of oxygen in AMI may make it difficult to persuade funders of the importance of this issue and health professionals to participate in enrolling patients into a trial in which oxygen would be withheld from half their patients.

We had the same situation in the U.S. when studying how much oxygen to use for neonatal resuscitation. Telling parents their baby won't or didn't get oxygen if resuscitation is or was required can be a little unnerving.

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock - another international journal. Some of the articles are available in full as well as abstract.

http://www.onlinejets.org/


The Journal of Emergency Medicine
The official journal of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine
- abstracts can be read

http://www.jem-journal.com/

One of my favorites:

Respiratory and Critical Medicine
http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/

Abstracts are available for all and full articles are available for older issues.

This will give some an idea about how indepth critical care medicine is.

Another favorite of mine:
Journal of Respiratory Diseases - just when you thought your EMT textbook taught you everything about COPD.

http://jrd.consultantlive.com/home

One more good journal:
Respiratory Care Journal
http://www.rcjournal.com/

Full articles available from older issues.

 

[adamjh3]

I use emcert.com for a lot of ConEd.

How does this work? Are CEU's applicable to college credit?

I browsed around the site and I am definitely going to sign up if solely for the reason of expanding my knowledge. I recently finished my EMT-B course, and I'm not exactly sure where I want my career path to go, (Paramedic? CCT Nurse? What?) I don't want to be just spinning my wheels with my education when I could be persuing college courses.

Sorry if this is a threadjack.

 

[TransportJockey]

When I worked for a hospital I had access to SwankHealth for CEs. And I have to admit I took every oportunity I could to use it, both at home and work

 

[VentMedic]

How does this work? Are CEU's applicable to college credit?

CEUs are not college credit. They are used for expanding ones knowledge, reviewing and meet licensure renewal requirements.

I browsed around the site and I am definitely going to sign up if solely for the reason of expanding my knowledge. I recently finished my EMT-B course, and I'm not exactly sure where I want my career path to go, (Paramedic? CCT Nurse? What?) I don't want to be just spinning my wheels with my education when I could be persuing college courses.

Sorry if this is a threadjack.

Start taking college courses. Some of the science, math and writing courses will be applicable towards several different degrees as well as beneficial for professional development. To be a good CCT RN, you have a long road even after the college degree. To be a Paramedic in the U.S. it is much shorter but to be better than the usual grad from a cert mill you should add a few college classes to your education base.

 

[BLSBoy]

Find a hott female, persuade her to remover her clothes, and do an indepth review of anatomy.....

 

[TransportJockey]

Find a hott female, persuade her to remover her clothes, and do an indepth review of anatomy.....

But where do you document that? Other than a ball and chain license?

 

[BLSBoy]

But where do you document that? Other than a ball and chain license?

Personally?
With my 14.5mp camera.

 

[TransportJockey]

Personally?
With my 14.5mp camera.

Now that's some pretty damned good thinking.

 

[BLSBoy]

Now that's some pretty damned good thinking.

Thats why I make the big bucks.