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Below is updated information regarding the Train-the-Trainer courses including known locations and links to each Region’s website.
| Date | Location | |
| August 28, 29 – 2010 | Region I | Oakley |
| September 25, 26 – 2010 | Region III | Hutchinson |
| October 9, 10 – 2010 | Region VI | Parsons |
| October 23, 24 – 2010 | Region IV | Salina |
| November 6, 7 – 2010 | Region II | Garden City |
| November 20, 21 – 2010 | Region V | Overland Park |
We did a test flight of the Kansas EMS Transition airplane at the Kansas State Capitol building today as we delivered the curriculum for review by the BEMS …
Test Flight of the EMS Transition Airplane
Back from the printer and put into binders. We are on schedule to deliver on Thursday to the Board of EMS! This will be 47 days ahead of the stated contract delivery date of September 1, 2010. This allows the Board of EMS to approve the content prior to the start of the train the trainers.
Finished Product!
It is easy to look at this and feel good about the work we’ve done. The “we” includes a lot of people. This project included many people who participated in the initial focus group sessions, reviewed curriculum, developed components of the curriculum, proof-read hundreds of pages, gave feedback, and otherwise supported the endeavor. This work has the fingerprints of first responders, EMTs, EMT-Is, paramedics, physicians, educators, and even a couple of people completely outside of the EMS discipline.
To all of those who helped out, thank you. This product is better because of all of you.
Just a note to say that we are in the process of converting files to pdf so that they can go to the printer tomorrow. On Thursday (July 15) we’ll be delivering the curriculum to the Board of EMS. This gives us about 5 weeks to work on developing the train the trainer course. Our first train the trainer course is with our friends in the Northwest in Region 1. It is scheduled for the last weekend in August in Oakley.
Just about all checked off . . .
I have a friend who is a corporate pilot. Alan has flown jets for years and so I was surprised one day when Alan announced that he was going to back to school for a week to learn a new aircraft. It seems his company was adding a Gulfstream jet to its fleet of Citation jets. In order to make the transition, all of the pilots were heading back for a week of school to learn the new aircraft. It seems that while the basic principles of lift, weight, thrust and drag remain the same for flight; achieving the balance of these principles in a way that keeps you from creating a hole in the ground is dependent upon knowing how the aircraft you are flying works. As Alan said, “They’re not teaching me to fly, Jon. They’re teaching me not to crash.”
Over the past few weeks, we have been asked a number of times why instructors who are paramedics must attend the train the trainer course. The assertion is that they already know the material. This brings to mind my friend Alan’s experience. The train the trainer is not about teaching you how to teach prehospital medicine. The train the trainer is about teaching you how to use the EMS transition bridge courses. We will not be spending time teaching you the lift, weight, thrust, and drag of prehospital medicine. If you are coming to the train the trainer we assume that you either know this or have people back home who do. Our job is to teach you how to teach clinical medicine successfully within the framework of the transition course lesson plans.
We are looking forward to seeing you this fall as we move from the development phase into the launching phase of this exciting time in Kansas EMS.
