This article was originally posted in our February 2017 Newsletter, by Tom Gottschalk, COO, Medical Educator Allied health educators are some of the most gifted people, and I feel privileged to know some of them. They are tasked to teach new inexperienced students the skills required to work in an ever-changing health care environment, often […]
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Computer Adaptive Testing: A Nursing Perspective
This article was originally posted in our February 2017 Newsletter, by Tom Gottschalk, COO, Medical Educator In January, Platinum Educational Group transitioned PlatinumTests.com from a pilot project to a real program ready for service. After a year and half of content creation, website development and validation we are now sharing a real computer adaptive testing […]
Q: As a student, what do I do if my Course or Class isn’t listed?
A: When students are attempting to submit enrollment into a course or class in our programs, what is listed for them to choose from are the current and upcoming courses or classes created by your institutions. If your Course or Class is not listed it may just be that it hasn’t been created yet, the […]
Progressive Testing. What is it?
This article was published in our February 2017 Newsletter, by Doug Smith, CEO, Medical Educator Progressive testing is based on the concept that one does not build on a weak foundation. It also values the concept that students typically do not “get it all” on the first pass. It is significantly different than “Chunk Testing”, […]
Q: In Platinum Planner, does the preceptor training offered by Platinum grade itself automatically, or do the Instructors/Administrators need to grade each Preceptors test manually?
A: While Preceptor tests needed to be manually graded in the past, the Platinum Development team have made a major overhaul for Preceptor training (See More Here). In addition to the ability to customize Preceptor training to fit your organization’s needs, when a Preceptor completes the default Preceptor test now, the test is graded automatically […]
Evaluation of the Elusive Affective Domain
This article originally appeared in our November 2016 Newsletter by John Spencer, Customer Support Manager, Lead Medical Educator Cognitive, Psychomotor, and Affective are the three domains of learning that we must evaluate as instructors. The cognitive domain focuses on knowledge and is easily evaluated using quizzes and tests. The psychomotor domain focuses on the use […]
The Unknown Patient: As Opposed to the Textbook Patient
This article was published in the December 2016 newsletter by Doug Smith, CEO, Medical Educator We often hear feedback from the students indicating what they are being exposed to on a question is different than what is in their textbook. Many times they have been conditioned through school and publisher textbooks that the text is […]
Updates to Appendix F & G in Platinum Planner
Updates to Appendix F Appendix F now displays a list of all preceptors that are associated with the site/location via approved student clinical documentation. The other update shows if the preceptor was trained and the date of training. If the preceptor was not trained, the column will show Pending. Update to Appendix G Appendix G […]
New CoAEMSP Report Available for Schools in Platinum Planner!
Platinum Educational Group worked with CoAEMSP to bring you a new report to help during accreditation. The CoAEMSP Course Progress Report (3c2) *BETA*, tracks the number of times students successfully perform competencies required in their Course, then by Gender, Age, Hours, Global Clinical Skills and/or Custom School Skills. Custom School Skills are marked in the […]
Q: When setting up the “Hours Requirements” for a course in Platinum Planner, what is the difference in between “EMS” and “EMS Field Internship?”
A: “EMS” hours are traditionally ambulance hours that occur during the students’ normal clinical rotation. This is considered “Field Experience” by CoAEMSP, which they define as: “Planned, scheduled, educational student time spent on an EMS unit, which may include observation and skill development, but which does not include field internship (capstone) team leading and does […]