Prehospital Care Research Forum at UCLA

PCRF has more exceptional workshops coming up. These are ideal for front-line clinicians, students, and educators with innate curiosity and an itch to launch their research project. Registration is free but limited. Arrive curious, leave with a research abstract! -PCRF/CARESTAR Equity Research Summit | Register by 12/15 -PCRF/Weinmann Ventilation Research Workshop | Register by 12/15 -PCRF/CARESTAR Research Workshop -PCRF/ESO Solutions Research Workshop | Register Now! More info and registration: https://ow.ly/NwTj50UbPL3

NEMSIS hosted researchers and PCRF mentors in Salt Lake City for their Post-Crash Care Research Workshop, November 12-14. Thanks to all who attended! We look forward to the abstracts coming from this event.

Join us November 22 for our next Education Journal Club as we dive deep into a new study comparing 3D virtual reality simulations to the real-life experience paramedics rely on. Could VR be the next big thing in emergency medical education? Register now! https://ow.ly/wzvL50U5xUU

Join us next Monday, the 18th, for this month’s PCRF Clinical Journal Club as we revive the discussion of Naloxone’s impact on cardiac arrest survival when administered on the frontline. The Journal Club panel will review a recent publication that compares out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients who received Naloxone with those who did not. Register now! https://ow.ly/OlUR50U5x51

Join us for this month Education Journal Club, where we will discuss and review the article: Can ChatGPT Generate Practice Question Explanations for Medical Students, a New Faculty Teaching Tool? We have all seen the news articles that ChatGPT and other AI models can pass the MCAT and LSAT. As educators, we worry about computers passing tests, not students. However, is there an opportunity for AI to help us in the classroom, not by taking the test but by writing the explanations for the correct answers? Register free: https://lnkd.in/gQepzzsD

Don’t miss the NEMSIS-PCRF Post-Crash Care Research Workshop: November 12-14, 2024 - Salt Lake City! This no-nonsense workshop will be both inspiring and productive. Bring only your curiosity and passion for EMS. We will surround you with data and the resources to advance EMS with science. Participants will work in small groups to identify a research question, design a project, gather data, analyze results and craft publishable abstracts. Expert researchers, medical directors, statisticians, developers and academic staff combine their efforts to remove barriers and empower EMS providers at all levels to turn their ideas into formal abstracts. Arrive curious. Leave with an abstract! Application deadline is October 15 2024, so apply now! https://ow.ly/aLuT50THaH4

In next Monday’s Clinical Journal Club, we review a recent publication that describes the community benefits of an EMS-recognized and evaluated fall prevention program. Falls are the leading cause of injury for older Americans; in fact, one out of every four persons aged 65 and older has reported a fall in the past year. Falls are also the leading cause of EMS activations annually, accounting for over 3 million annual ED visits. EMS has a front-row seat in this epidemic, but little has been done to evaluate its role in a cure. Join us Monday, October 14, for “Stepping Up Safety: Integrating Fall Prevention in EMS Services” https://ow.ly/mHi550TFFV3

Apply now for the NEMSIS-PCRF Post-Crash Care Research Workshop! Participation is limited. This no-nonsense workshop is both inspiring and productive. Bring only your curiosity and passion for EMS. We will surround you with data and the resources to advance EMS with science. Participants will work in small groups to identify a research question, design a project, gather data, analyze results and craft publishable abstracts. For this workshop groups will focus on the important issue of effective and safe post-crash care. Apply Now: https://ow.ly/jhgE50TwmsN

Join us on Friday for the next Education Journal Club, entitled “AI Revolution: Crafting Diverse and Inclusive Medical Case Vignettes.” AI is already helping to reduce the remedial and redundant tasks in our classroom, but can it design our case studies and simulations, too? Even better, can it increase the diversity of our patient scenarios while removing our preconceived notions and implicit biases? We’ll review research that asked ChatGPT to do precisely that! https://ow.ly/R4nE50TushH

??EMS Research Awards?? ??Best Clinical Oral Presentation?? ??Left Behind? Unhoused Patients and EMS Transportation by Maya Mullen and Em Cyr ??Best Education Poster?? ??Implementing and Evaluating a Sustainable Prehospital Trauma Training Program During the Ukraine-Russia War by Brock Jenkins ??Best Clinical Poster?? ??Epidemiology of OHCA in Costa Rica from 2019-2023 by Andres Cairol Congratulations to our winners and to all our contestants at EMS World. Research is a huge part in the ever-changing cycle that is practicing medicine and we look forward to everyone’s continued research and seeing how it influences prehospital care in the future! #2024EXPOresearch #EMSresearch UCLA Center for Prehospital Care