Building the 'Simbulance': An Ambulance Simulator

Conclusion We created a low-resource, ongoing benefit with our Simbulance. The open house was successful for the program in terms of publicity, which led to securing funding from Vassar College to purchase a new stretcher. The publicity also led the EMT program CIC at Marist College to express a desire to come use the Simbulance, since they have the same limitations within their program. One of our important goals as educators should be to provide our students with the best tools before they go out into a possibly dangerous and hostile environment. The best way to accomplish this is to expose them to as many levels of Bloom’s taxonomy within all three domains during their educational experience. EMS is complicated. We are one-part people mover, one-part social worker and one-part medical provider. The more we can prepare our students in a realistic environment, the safer and more competent they will be when it really counts. Download the plans for the Vassar College Simbulance References 1. National Association of EMS Educators. (Nov. 18, 2015.) Simulation in EMS Education: Charting the Future. Retrieved Aug. 14, 2018, from https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/naemse.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/Docs/SimPressRelease15.pdf. 2. McKenna KD, Carhart E, Bercher D, et al. Simulation Use in Paramedic Education Research (SUPER): A descriptive study. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2015;19(3):432–440. 3. Motola I, Devine LA, Chung HS, et al. Simulation in healthcare education: A best evidence pract...
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