They perform essential, life-saving interventions and rapidly assure higher acuity healthcare is obtained. The EMT is a trained individual who responds to an array of healthcare emergencies outside of a clinical or hospital setting. It is also important to optimize availability of skills session equipment and instructors, which students deem most valuable to their success in the course. Because most participants are heavily involved in extracurricular activities, it is important for the leaders of this project to implement targeted recruiting. Course characteristics most valuable to student’s success was exposure to medical equipment and access to knowledgeable skills lab instructors for hands on activities.Ĭonclusion: As a result of this project, hybrid EMT training is now accessible to students who attend high school in South Dakota. Many students also had family or close friends who were in the healthcare field. Enrolled students were queried before and after the class with a survey that supplied objective information about students and their opinions on specific course features.įindings: High-achieving students were found to take the course most often most students had GPAs of greater than 3.8 and were a part of numerous extracurricular activities.
Methods: Numerous high schools in Southeast SD were contacted and students were recruited to participate in this hybrid course. We also aim to identify student and course characteristics which are pertinent to program development to attract a young population into the field of emergency medical services (EMS). Purpose: We aim to implement a hybrid-model emergency medical technician (EMT) course in South Dakota (SD) high schools. The authors implemented a hybrid-model EMT course in South Dakota and say they may have an answer to recruitment and retraining problems.
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