A Fire Medic Perspective: The top five things that Legal Counsel wants Emergency Responders to know. Rom Duckworth and Allison Bloom discuss how we may not know what we need to know to stay on the right side of the law and sometimes what we THINK we know can get us into more trouble than what we don’t. Our guest today is ...
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The RescueDigest Podcast Episode 25: Delivering Customer Service with Lights and Sirens
A Fire Medic Perspective: Delivering Customer Service with Lights and Sirens. Rom Duckworth discusses how a culture of customer service can work in the real-world with retired Battalion Chief (and prolific author) Rob Avsec.
Read More »The RescueDigest Podcast Episode 24: Dennis Rubin on a Chief’s Challenges of Change
A Fire Medic Perspective: A Chief’s Challenges of Change with retired (but still incredibly active) Chief Dennis Rubin, formerly serving as Chief of Washington DC, Atalanta, GA, Norfolk, VA, and Dothan, AL Fire Departments.
Read More »The RescueDigest Podcast Episode 23: EMS Education Transition with Dan Limmer
Rom Duckworth speaks with Dan Limmer about What we need to know about the EMS education transition from old standards to new ones, how to experience providers get up to speed, the difference between a refresher and the transition, and the keys to teaching critical thinking to students.
Read More »The RescueDigest Podcast Episode 22: Dave Statter
Rom Duckworth speaks with Dave Statter about first due videos, the outsider perspective of the fire service, the echo chamber effect, the videos he won’t show, and the answer to the question “When Has THAT Ever Happened in the Fire Service?”
Read More »A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast Episode 21: National Fire Academy EMS Programs
In this episode we see “The National Fire Academy: Not Just Fire Anymore” as we talk with Michael Stern, EMS Training Specialist for the National Fire Academy.
Read More »A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast Episode 20: EMS / Hospital Relationships
Rom Duckworth sits down with an expert panel to ask, “The evolving relationship between EMS and their destination healthcare systems: Where are we going?”.
Read More »A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast Episode 19: Everyday Educators’ Lesson Plans
Rom Duckworth sits down with Author and Educator Richard Beebe to ask, “When providing initial and ongoing Fire, EMS and Emergency Services Education: how much (and what kind of) planning does it take to do it right?”
Read More »A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast Episode 18: Improving Joint PD, FD and EMS Operations
Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire / EMS advocate and Redding, CT Police Chief Doug Fuchs to discuss police, fire and EMS working together, local success and failures, how they’re representative of services across the country and how collaboration impacts safety and situational awareness.
Read More »A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast Episode 17: The Top 5 Challenges Facing Us In 2013
EMS Roundtable A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast: Top 5 Challenges – A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast is RescueDigests’ weekly podcast featuring Rom Duckworth covering everything emergency services, from clinical topics, to leadership issues to why the rookie has to pay for lunch, all from a Fire Medic Perspective. . [powerpress] . Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire / EMS Educator and IAFF ...
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