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MAY 2016

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26 MAY 2016 | EMSWORLD.com D o you remember the days of sitting in classrooms watching slide after slide of boring PowerPoint presentations, or listening to EMS lectures on the same material you spent hours reading the night before? What about the frustration of watch- ing a piece of equipment demonstrated, but never getting the opportunity to practice with it hands on? Those days are over in the Motlow College EMS education programs in Lynchburg, TN. In an era of progressive medicine, we have chosen to be aggressive in our approach and to teach progressive, evidence- based medicine to our students. In 1996, at the National Teaching & Learn- ing Forum, professors Joan Middendorf and Alan Kalish from Indiana University described the effect of lengthy lectures on the retention of material. 1 They stated that most adults only retain information from the first 15 minutes of lecture. Additionally, a study published in the Proceedings of National Academy How supplementing classroom lectures with realistic simulation improves the EMS student's experience By Drew Hooker

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