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A Fire Medic Perspective: The top five things that Legal Counsel  wants Emergency Responders to know. Rom Duckworth and Allison Bloom discuss how we may not know what we need to know to stay on the right side of the law and sometimes what we THINK we know can get us into more trouble than what we don't. Our guest today is Allison J. Bloom of the Bloominghill Group, a consultant, coach, attorney and educator for emergency services that you may have heard present at EMS Today, EMS World and other national and regional conference events. Her articles on legal issues have appeared in numerous emergency services publications and she has worked with responders across the spectrum of public safety on the topics that affect our profession the most.

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A Fire Medic Perspective: Delivering Customer Service with Lights and Sirens. Rom Duckworth discusses how a culture of customer service can work in the real-world with retired Battalion Chief (and prolific author) Rob Avsec.

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A Fire Medic Perspective: A Chief’s Challenges of Change with retired (but still incredibly active) Chief Dennis Rubin, formerly serving as Chief of Washington DC, Atalanta, GA, Norfolk, VA, and Dothan, AL Fire Departments.

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Rom Duckworth speaks with Dan Limmer about What we need to know about the EMS education transition from old standards to new ones, how to experience providers get up to speed, the difference between a refresher and the transition, and the keys to teaching critical thinking to students.

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Rom Duckworth speaks with Dave Statter about first due videos, the outsider perspective of the fire service, the echo chamber effect, the videos he won’t show, and the answer to the question “When Has THAT Ever Happened in the Fire Service?”

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In this episode we see “The National Fire Academy: Not Just Fire Anymore” as we talk with Michael Stern, EMS Training Specialist for the National Fire Academy.

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Rom Duckworth sits down with an expert panel to ask, “The evolving relationship between EMS and their destination healthcare systems: Where are we going?”.

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Rom Duckworth sits down with Author and Educator Richard Beebe to ask, “When providing initial and ongoing Fire, EMS and Emergency Services Education: how much (and what kind of) planning does it take to do it right?”

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Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire / EMS advocate and Redding, CT Police Chief Doug Fuchs to discuss police, fire and EMS working together, local success and failures, how they’re representative of services across the country and how collaboration impacts safety and situational awareness.

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EMS Roundtable A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast: Top 5 Challenges – A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast is RescueDigests’ weekly podcast featuring Rom Duckworth covering everything emergency services, from clinical topics, to leadership issues to why the rookie has to pay for lunch, all from a Fire Medic Perspective. . [powerpress] . Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire ...

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Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire / EMS Educator and IAFF Rep Jerry Biggart to lay out the top 5 challenges facing us in 2013.

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EMS Roundtable A Fire Medic Perspective: Best Practices for Field Training Programs

We apologize, as great as this episode was, we ran into slight technical difficulties with two of our recent podcasts and this was one of them. Sorry about that folks, but as we all know, sometimes the internets, they are fickle!

Rom Duckworth talks with Brian Lilley and John Borel about Field Training Programs Done Right.

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EMS Roundtable A Fire Medic Perspective: Live from Las Vegas: Fire Rescue Med 2013

We apologize, as great as this episode was, we ran into slight technical difficulties with two of our recent podcasts and this was one of them. Sorry about that folks, but as we all know, sometimes the internets, they are fickle!

Rom Duckworth calls in live with the latest from the Fire-Based EMS Leadership Conference: Fire Rescue Med.

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EMS Roundtable A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast: Bloodborne Pathogens: What do we REALLY need to know?

Rom Duckworth sits down with Capt. Jerry Myers to ask “Bloodborne Pathogens: What do we REALLY need to know? We have to sit down every year, but what is new in 2013? Are we teaching what we are supposed to? What does and Infection Control Officer even do? What is the role of a supervisor or company officer in an exposure? Listen to some great calls and questions.

Captain Myers been in EMS for 36 years. As a US Army Medic 77-80, EMT 80-82, EMT-I 82-92, Instructor 86 to present, and Paramedic from 92 to present. He has worked in Volunteer, Commercial, Third Service, Hospital Based EMS and Fire Based EMS. Currently he is a Captain and Ambulance Supervisor with the Ridgefield Fire Department and a Regional Manager for Vintech Management Service, an EMS Staffing Service. He has received specialized training in Infection Control from multiple sources and serve as Designated Infection Control Officer for several organizations.

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EMS Roundtable A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast: Breaki […]

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A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast is a brand new weekly podcast from the EMS Roundtable network, featuring Rom Duckworth from RescueDigest covering everything emergency services, from clinical topics, to leadership issues, all from a Fire Medic Perspective.

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A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast is RescueDigests' weekly podcast featuring Rom Duckworth covering everything emergency services, from clinical topics, to leadership issues to why the rookie has to pay for lunch, all from a Fire Medic Perspective.

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In this inaugural episode, Chris Cebollero talks to Rom about the importance of education to the advancement of EMS, the role of critical thinking in emergency services and how public, private, fire-based and all forms of emergency medical services can work together!

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Audio Podcast Episode 7: Brotherhood The Rescue […]

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