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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Culling the Herd: Changing our Industry One Classroom at a Time
This article originally appeared in our November 2016 Newsletter by John Spencer, Customer Support Manager, Lead Medical Educator EMS professionals are those that people call when they are sick, injured, or in need of some type of help. They are granted intimate access into people’s homes and lives. People trust them to see them when […]
Group Testing with EMSTesting & PlatinumTests: A Classroom Application
This article was published in the September 2016 newsletter by Tom Gottschalk, COO, Medical Educator How many times have you heard that you must attach emotion to the learning process in your classroom? We know that emotion helps to move new information from temporary storage to long term memory and we try to incorporate activities, […]
Preceptors (Trained versus Verified)
This article was published in the September 2016 newsletter by Doug Smith, CEO, Medical Educator Preceptors play a critical role in the education and training of our students. From the hospital to the pre-hospital setting where students are provided with the opportunity to perform skills under the watchful eye of an experienced clinician where the […]
Q: Why am I having problems using my access code to pay for my course in Platinum Planner or my class in EMSTesting?
A: Depending on what you are running into, there can actually be multiple reasons why a code isn’t being accepted. 1. The Access Code has already been used – Access codes are one-time use. This means if you’ve already used it to pay for a course or class, it cannot be used again for another […]