Drop your highlighters, put down the textbook, and let’s talk about learning to learn. If you are reading a FOAMed blog, you are either a dedicated EMS professional striving to continue your education or you are a student looking to expand your learning in new ways. Either way, if you have arrived here you have realized that lifelong learning is essential to becoming the best professional you can be. The challenge is that learning is hard, and it is something that in order

I will reluctantly admit that I am an AHA instructor... Whenever I teach ACLS or PALS classes and run students through scenarios, I hear people say a lot of the typical lines: Student: "I would start a NE drip now" Me: "What do you want to run it at?" Student: "5mcg / min" In the AHA classes I don't too often test to see if people actually know the logistics of how to perform that function in real life or not. However, when we get new clinicians at work, I love to test their

"And we would give Ketamine..." - Paramedic trainee/student who is being run through a scenario In EMS, we rely on simulation for a lot of our experience. It isn't everyday that we perform RSI/DSI, assist in childbirth, see De Winter's, etc. So, it is only logical that we rely on simulation. Ideally, the first time we see or perform things like what I just listed, it would be in clinicals. However, that is the topic of another debate (see my Reform Paramedic Education blog).