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Video: EMS Week 2010 EMS Games

Video photo collage from a 2010 EMS week competition between several neighboring EMS services. This is a great idea to have some fun and socialize with EMS colleagues. This idea could easily be adapted to include some EMS skills competition.

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EMS Tips

iPhone App: EMT Academy

EMT- B student Austin Marsh wrote me about the iPhone app EMT Academy. Austin writes: “EMT Academy is a great app! It includes flashcards, quizzes, skill sheets and more help me study and review before test dates! I have it for the iPhone, find it on the app store for $4.99!” Thanks Austin. EMT Academy […]

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EMS Tips

EMT Recertification Tips

An Everyday EMS Tips reader asked, “I need to get a recertification for my EMT done on the cheap. It’s due in March.” Buy Cheap, Get Cheap Unfortunately many of us have low expectations for EMT recertification training and thus look for the fastest and easiest path to recertification. We also get stuck in needing […]

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EMS Tips

5 Tips for Funding an Online College Degree

This is guest post from Rebecca Broyce. If you want to guest post or review on this blog check out the guidelines here. It is simply amazing all that can be done with you personal computer connected to the internet. Many people are working from home, researching new places to live, and even continuing their […]

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Social Media Tips

Idea: Spend Thanksgiving with Emergency Responders

I love coming up with ideas and sharing ideas. Yesterday Doug Mummert retweeted a message from Keith Yaskin, a Fox 10 Phoenix News Reporter, looking for Thanksgiving Day Story ideas. I replied. Keith liked the idea and spent the day with the busiest Phoenix FD station – scroll down for the story. Thanks Doug and […]

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EMS Education Tips News and Events

EMS Boot Camp – Take a Continuing Education Class Now

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Author-Interviews

Stories from the E.R. Loading Dock – A medical author chat with Eric Liddy Sr.

[amazon-product text=”The E.R. Loading Dock: real EMS Stories from Around the World” type=”text”]B0027EG5CO[/amazon-product] is a compilation of stories from paramedics around the world that met each other and collaborated on the book through an online forum for paramedics. Eric Liddy Sr. an EMT, firefighter, and rescue technician in southeast Michigan led the effort to collect, organize, […]

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Guest Blogger Students

Make a Winning First Impression

You Can Only Make One First Impression. It is vital to have a successful relationship with your EMS instructors. In your emergency medical career, you need to be able to work with many different personalities and types of people. This relationship building begins with your EMS instructor. Make a winning first impression with 4 Everyday […]