A group of new IAED Instructors discuss their experiences taking the EMD and EFD Instructor courses. The guests are Miguel Garcia and Nicole Smith with the Sarasota County Fire Department in Florida, Bernhard Eisenbock with Notruf Niederösterreich in Lower Austria, Brooke Dittfurth with Acadian Ambulance Service in Texas, Joanna Overton with El Paso Regional Communications Center in Texas, and Diane Verrault with Groupe Alerte Santé in Quebec. They talk about their street experience in emergency response, things that surprised them as they’ve begun to teach, and advice for other people thinking about applying.

For Your Information: 
Miguel’s segment—1:33 
Nicole’s segment—11:35 
Bernhard’s (Bobby’s) segment—21:48 
Brooke’s segment—32:20 
Joanna’s segment—44:47 
Diane’s segment—55:52 

Listen to Eric Fayad talk about the Academy side of things: https://www.aedrjournal.org/the-instructor-academy-with-eric-fayad  

Listen to recent graduates of the Instructor Academy talk about their experiences: https://www.aedrjournal.org/future-instructors-with-michelle-vetter-deborah-mccombs-matthew-foletti-and-david-emerson  

Email Eric with your questions: eric (dot) fayad (at) emergencydispatch (dot) org

Fledgling Instructors

Isabel Gardett talks with Brett Patterson, the chair of the Medical Council of Standards for the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch. They discuss the why and how of getting involved with research, what it means that a dispatch system is “evidence-based,” and how to enact change to protocols using research.

For Your Information:
Sepsis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsis)

ABCs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(medicine))

AHA (http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/)

Hypoxic seizure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hypoxia)

W. Edwards Deming, Some Theory of Sampling (https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Sampling-William-Edwards-Deming/dp/048664684X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505500418&sr=1-4&refinements=p_lbr_one_browse-bin%3AW.+Edwards+Deming)

W. Edwards Deming, Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position (https://www.amazon.com/Quality-Productivity-Competitive-Position-Edwards/dp/0911379002/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8)

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