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.
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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