How can we help EMS look more like the population it serves? We must examine our policies and their impact on who we are hiring and retaining.
In this episode of The EMS Educator podcast, hosts Rob Lawrence and Hilary Gates, MAEd, NRP; welcome guests Katie O鈥機onnor, EMS educator and simulation expert in LA County and Washington D.C.鈥檚 GWU; Sahaj Khalsa, Santa Fe (NM) Community College鈥檚 EMS program director; and Prodigy鈥檚 Medical Director, Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD, FAEMS, FACEP.
Our guests discuss how social determinants of health can affect employee success and how our seemingly well-thought out requirements may actually harm our diversity efforts.
If you鈥檙e a chief, recruiter, educator or EMS employer, this podcast is a must listen. The people who write policies are gatekeepers to this profession, and we still have a ways to go to diversify the EMS workforce.
Have a listen to Part 1, Addressing Bias in Patient Care.
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- Katie O鈥機onnor:
Maia Dorsett: maiadorsett@gmail.com
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What unconscious biases are your simulations enforcing?