HeyJaredPrehospital Care Research Forum (PCRF) Journal Club
The UCLA Center for Prehospital Care established the Prehospital Care Research Forum (PCRF) at UCLA in 1992 in cooperation with JEMS Communications.
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Code 3 or not to be? (opens the original)
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Lights and sirens are woven into the identity of EMS. They signal urgency, clear traffic, and often feel synonymous with saving lives. But how much time are we actually gaining, and is the benefit worth the risk? In this month’s journal club, we examine a large observational study that used modern transportation modeling and more than 25,000 ambulance transports to estimate the true impact of emergent driving during patient transport. The findings challenge long-held assumptions and raise import
Can AI Grade This? The Future of Feedback in Health Professions Education (opens the original)
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Can ChatGPT deliver meaningful feedback that rivals an experienced educator? Join us as we examine new research comparing AI-generated and faculty feedback in medical education, explore what students valued most, and discuss what these findings could mean for paramedic educators navigating the future of teaching, assessment, and learner support. Article: Bytes versus brains: A comparative study of AI-generated feedback and human tutor feedback in medical education
The Hardest Call in EMS: Is This Child Critical? (opens the original)
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In this episode, we take on one of the most challenging questions in prehospital care: how do we know when a child is truly critically ill? Pediatric patients don’t always present as we expect, and in the field, we often make high-stakes decisions with limited information and infrequent experience. This month’s journal club explores a qualitative study that brings together perspectives from paramedics and physicians to better understand how pediatric critical illness is recognized across setting
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