To make communication more timely and frequent as well as to ensure everyone remains engaged, I’m asking everyone to please join the EMSEPA Google group. To join you must have a Google account, it’s free and easy to set up at http://www.google.com. Click on “Sign in” in the upper right hand corner of the Google [...]

I got home from Beijing last Sunday night. I have caught up with work, more or less, and now it’s time to pick up where we left off. Lets pin down a meeting place and date. I suggest we meet on a Saturday, late afternoon or Sunday morning so no one has to take a [...]

Is it time to have a meeting? If so, where and when? The next EMS Conference is the Eastern EMS Council Conference in the Poconos October 23-25. That may be too far for some folks but its a nice place to go. Thoughts? If not there, maybe somewhere mid state, in late October or early [...]

I’m going to pursue two lines of thinking in this post. First I will lay out some of the things I feel are important for us to achieve. Second I will articulate what I believe is the purpose of the EMSEPA.

Looking forward, what are our goal and objectives? Short term, six month goals include completing [...]

There are 124 users on this site plus one admin (who is a good friend of mine who, although he is not in EMS,  is very tech savvy). As of right now, there are only 28 members in the Google group.

There is a link to the EMSEPA Google group on the lower left side of [...]

Please take a look at the draft of the EMSEPA bylaws by clicking on the tab above. Comments?

Please read the draft of our Mission Statement by clicking on the tab at the top of the page. Comments?

Take a look at the Vision statment by clicking on the tab at the top of the page. Comments?

I got back from the NAEMSE symposium Monday afternoon. While I was there I had the opportunity to talk with the President of the Florida Association of EMS Educators, Danny Griffin. Long story short, he said that we could use their bylaws and structure as a template or model for the EMSEPA. You can read [...]

I just got home from the PA State EMS Conference. Last night six folks, John Goodale,  Donna Snyder, Robert Horton, John Campos, Catherine Parvensky Barwell and I met to discuss the formation of an association of Pennsylvania EMS educators. We came to a few conclusions:

1) We need to prepare for the transition from the National [...]