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 […]
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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 […]
New Preceptor Verification for Instructors in Platinum Planner!
If a student adds a new preceptor to their documentation, the student’s documentation can no longer be accepted until the preceptor is verified by their instructor. When an instructor is reviewing the student’s documentation they will have the option to verify the preceptor (shown above). Once the Instructor has verified the preceptor by clicking on […]
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 […]
The Importance of Situational Awareness
Greetings fellow educators. Last month, during an NRA safety class, our instructors discussed at length situational awareness (SA). While I had heard the term before in firefighter related training, I was ignorant to what it really meant. When I reviewed the topic afterwards, I found it very interesting when trying to understand people’s state of […]
New Progress Reports Feature in Platinum Planner!
This article was published in the September 2016 newsletter by Tom Gottschalk, COO, Medical Educator Last month’s article revolved highlighted gems at EMSTesting.com many instructors do not utilize but could if they wanted to. (See article here) This month, I am going to steer our colleagues to an exciting new tool hot off the developer’s […]
NAEMSE Recap
A special shout out to all the hardworking folks at NAEMSE! They worked their tails off to provide a great event. Thank you! If you think Platinum Educational Group made a splash at this year’s symposium, then you are right! We hope you had the opportunity to enjoy the many items, gifts, and events we […]
2016 EMS, Nursing, & Allied Health Scholarships Recap and Awardee Announcement!
WOW! We received quite the response from our 2nd Annual Scholarships Program! With this year’s award’s being expanded to include Nursing and Allied Health programs, more than 100 different schools were represented for the three $1000 awards! Platinum would like to thank all the students that took the time and effort to apply. There were […]
Q: In Platinum Planner, how do I change my password?
A: Before the Single Sign-On update, once you logged into Platinum Planner all you would need to do is go to My Account near the top-right of the page and you could enter a new password there. Now that accounts are linked in both EMSTesting and Platinum Planner, you need to go to my.platinumed.com to […]