On Sunday, July 31st, 2016 Platinum Educational Group unveiled a new beta feature in EMSTesting.com titled “Group Testing.” This new testing feature will be shown at the NAEMSE Conference the first week of August 2016 in Fort Worth, Texas. What is Group Testing? Group Testing is a way to add a group trivia experience to […]
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The Importance of Computer Adaptive Testing and Actually Training Like You Fight!
This article was written for our July 2016 Newsletter by By John Spencer, Medical Educator Take a moment and think about all of the trainings that you have personally attended over the years. Do you remember them all or just some of them? Odds are that you can remember some of them because something memorable […]
PEG’s EMSTesting Validity
This article was published in our July 2016 Newsletter and was written by Doug Smith, Medical Educator, CEO There is a marketing campaign from our competitor going around suggesting that there is only one solution out there for providing valid tests for EMS providers. Let me be very clear that this is NOT the case. […]
All of our Products. One Single Sign-in.
This article was published in our May 2016 Newsletter, by the Dev Team Platinum Educational Group is pleased to announce to our customers its upcoming single sign-in feature for all our products! The single sign-in feature will allow you to have access to all of Platinum Educational Group’s products with one email and password. Once […]
What is PlatinumTests.com?
Many of you have noticed a new platform addition entitled PlatinumTests. This new web based mobile friendly site provides us a platform to provide valid and reliable testing for a myriad of different healthcare industries. We are excited about this new venture to take testing to another level! Currently, PlatinumTests houses our NCLEX-RN® study prep […]
Getting the most out of Platinum’s Computer Adaptive Testing experience (CAT)
Almost a decade ago we launched our computer adaptive testing software to prepare students for this new method of taking high stakes exams like the National Registry of EMT’s and the NCLEX for nursing. I can vividly remember the building process with our educators and IT experts around a table mapping it all out. Armed […]
AHA 2015 Guidelines Update
The American Heart Association recently released their 2015 resuscitation guidelines. The 2015 guidelines mostly reinforce and strengthen the 2010 guidelines, and include some changes, such as the separation of the Chains of Survival to differentiate out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) from in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA). The 2010 guidelines introduced us to the C-A-B approach and to […]
Effectively Manage Students Experiencing Program Difficulty
by Tom Gottschalk, COO As an EMS instructor/coordinator I can honestly say that the task of taking new candidates from civilian life to qualified EMS providers is an enormous undertaking. Whether we are training an academy of Emergency Medical Responders for police work or in the business of educating tomorrows Paramedics, I believe we have […]
Hello EMS Instructors and Program Directors!
by John Zimmer, Client Relations Manager One of my functions here at Platinum Educational Group, is to conduct “audits” of how our clients use our two programs – EMSTesting and Platinum Planner. We have started these audits so ensure our clients are using our programs to their fullest while increasing our clients’ overall satisfaction in […]
Class Test Results, Individual Student Results and Class Detailed Results in EMSTesting.com
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by Tom Gottschalk, COO Many EMS teachers and program directors will seek out help from our customer service advocates around the time they need help defending their testing practices. In fact, I believe this is one of the main motivators for adopting our system for their […]