Training & Education

McMaster University's Emergency First Response Team (EFRT) has curated a multi-step, highly selective hiring process that has led to exemplary retention rates.

How can you reignite your passion for healthcare when you feel it burning out? The author explores this idea in this Perspectives & Opinions piece.

Current student Alexandra Montgomery leads the charge to develop a new campus EMS organization.

Connor Black, the Assistant Chief of the Emergency Response Team (ERT) at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, sat down with the JCEMS news...

This article outlines the steps which Dartmouth EMS has taken to educate our members on socially just and racially inclusive emergency medicine.

Posters from the Academic Poster Session at the 2024 Annual National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation Conference

Formosa et al. provide an overview of Canadian student-run campus emergency medical response teams, examining aspects including training, operations, and organizational status.

In 2010, the University of Pennsylvania Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) initiated the Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) training program. To better prepare student-EMTs to respond and manage a disaster scene, MERT is implementing a tabletop exercise module to ensure that MERT members are fluent in the Incident Command System (ICS), familiar with the MERT MCI operating guidelines, and able to size-up a scene appropriately.

JCEMS developed a Research Mentorship Program to build research capacity in the collegiate EMS community.

This case report describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a pilot training course for collegiate EMS providers on the treatment of law enforcement canines.