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"Best Practices" in Fire Service-Based EMS

The Fire Service-Based EMS Advocates Steering Committee has added a new feature to their website (www.fireserviceems.com). The steering committee will be gathering descriptions of “Best Practices” in Fire Service-Based EMS and posting them on their website for advocates and others to study. These articles will be posted as they are received and made available for review as readers’ desire. This electronic format for sharing current EMS information is sure to be of benefit to all fire departments: large metropolitan, other fully careers, combination, and volunteer. Individuals interested in submitting articles for consideration by the steering committee can do so by sending them to Chief Dennis Compton, Co-Chairman of the Fire Service-Based EMS Advocates Steering Committee at dcompton5@cox.net. Each article must be a maximum of 1,000 words and include a very brief Bio introducing the author. The decision of the steering committee concerning whether to post a particular article is final.

The steering committee is committed to sharing information about fire service-based EMS inside and outside the fire service community. Each submission will become eligible for recognition by the Congressional Fire Services Institute (CFSI) through their annual Excellence in Fire Service-Based EMS Honors Program. If you have not yet joined the Advocates, please visit the website at www.fireserviceems.com and follow the easy instructions to do so. We look forward to receiving your submissions. Thank you for your willingness to share your organization’s fire service-based EMS success stories with others.

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Fire Service Based EMS Advocates

2 years ago

Fire Service Based EMS Advocates

Joint Position Statement
Opposition to Proposed Degree Requirements for
Accredited Paramedic Programs
International Association of Fire Chiefs (www.iafc.org)
International Association of Fire Fighters (www.iaff.org)
National Fire Protection Association (www.nfpa.org)
National Volunteer Fire Council (www.nvfc.org)
The IAFC, IAFF, NFPA, and NVFC strongly support higher education for members seeking advanced degrees and educational opportunities at any level. We believe that individual agencies can and should consider strategies and provide incentives that encourage personnel to pursue higher education.
However, requiring a college degree for entry-level paramedics would create hardships for fire departments and make EMS systems financially unsustainable in many states. There are no identifiable data or other evidence suggesting that requiring paramedics to obtain a college degree would result in better patient outcomes, enhanced professionalism for EMS providers, better performance, or higher pay.
Our organizations are concerned about ongoing legislative and regulatory efforts to require a college degree for entry-level paramedics. This completely arbitrary change would shutter over 20% of existing paramedic education programs, leaving colleges and universities as the only venues available for paramedic education, thereby severely restricting fire/EMS departments’ ability to recruit and train paramedics. The justifications used to support a proposed transition to college degree educational requirements are unnecessary, untested and do not have the support of our organizations.
December 30, 2018
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