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Nice! People like you make this site worth visiting. Good stuff chbare. Thanks.

I think that this depends completely on the instructor and the training institute that is providing the education. Like all programs there are both good and bad. I think that you must tailor your classes to meet the needs of your students. Based on the fact that medicine is an ever evolving process, we currently are teaching based on a curriculum that was implemented in 1994! (Very happy that the new curriculum is in the process of being implemented) I think as educators we do have to use technology more frequently to keep up with the learning styles. Of course we have to base this technology use on your audience. I hear a lot of negativity about technology. Technology is not meant to replace knowledge. Technology is meant to assist the provider to provide excellent care. We need to continue to have high standards in our courses and turn out excellent providers! In doing so they will pass the test. I do wish however that the programs in the area would raise their standards on the students thats are accepted into the programs. It would maybe help a little bit. I think we just have to keep doing the best we can, and set the bar high and keep it there. Bring the students up to the bar not lower it for them.

Please add your videos, be safe ! Added this one later, basically a commercial for AEV, but good points made:

Are you retarded? To the very last person, everyone who gave an opinion here said they thought he did fine. Do you complain about blowjobs too?

You need a vest for the same reason you wear a seatbelt and use safety type needles for your IV sticks, it is a safety thing. I doubt there is anyone in this forum that has not found themselves in a violent situation. If you haven't you must be a rookie.

I remember my first emergency call like a nightmare. I felt like I was standing still lodged in mud with everything moving about me. My partner and EMS mentor appeared to me to be picking me up by my boot straps and sigle handedly managing a difficult patient. I honestly cannot remember a single thing that I did to help during the call. Afterwards, in discussion of the call... partner tells me I did fine, that's the way you feel after the first one... you'll get over it. He was right, I got over it... but I never wanted to feel that useless again. I began to really dial it up from that point forward. (Good times... eh admin?) So what I'm saying is... get over it... get better from it. I have the feeling that a light bulb popped on over your head during this discussion (yes ABC's can be assessed from the hallway before you even see the patient... weird huh?). Good luck. The City can be supportive if you let it.

Rookie, I thought about your post while working my 48-hour shift which just ended this morning. Essentially, I got a new partner who is both young and a fairly new Basic. On our first call together, it was a cluster. Not that either one of us didn't know what to do but rather in the fact that we simply had not gotten our rhythm. By our last call, it was getting much better. We have the month together before we switch partners again...but I wager that by then, we'll be cooking with gas. Moral of my story...maybe part of your "issue" also lied in the fact that you and your partner are still getting used to each other as well. Communication is key. When you feel like something isn't right, ask about it. And, then take everything with a grain of salt and decide for yourself if it has merit. Some times it does...and some times it doesn't. But, at least you both will know where the other stands. Gee...I hope this makes sense. Long shift...so off to bed now. G'night, Gracie.

Sorry, you got it backwards. The reason for teaching to pass is that the test became harder. In the old days, the test was easy. It is the responsibility of the employer to "orient" new employees, there is no way that any school can teach someone everything they need to know in school.

Here we go, the forum regulars crucifying a new person who comes to post here. Don't let a lot of these people get you down. It is a cult. To the OP: Stay clam, remember you aren't the one dying. You are an EMT, and realistically there isn't much you are going to do to hurt this person. Board/Collar 'em up and get 'em on the way to the ER. Your assessment can be done in route. You'll be fine kid, just take a deep breather and stay level headed. It will fall into place soon enough.