Executive Summary of Educational Content from EMS Agenda 2050.

EMS Agenda 2050 follows the original EMS Agenda for the Future and EMS Education Agenda for the Future. These visionary documents discussed and described learning content, requirements, and design of EMS education. This article written by members of the EMS Agenda 2050 Technical Expert Panel highlights the content in the preceding agendas for the future and content from EMS Agenda 2050 in an effort to provide a summarized guide for new and existing EMS education curriculums.

Military leadership. Can its seven core values work for EMS?

Every EMS agency has a boss like it: dominating and opinionated, immaculately attired and groomed, with close-cropped hair and an abrupt personality. They are hard to understand and even harder to like. They demand respect and are quick to lash out when angered. They demand obedience because "Lives are at stake!" Sometimes they really are veterans of our nation's military, sometimes they aren't. But what they all have in common is a misinterpretation of what "military leadership" really is. The basic misconception of military leadership is that the military demands absolute, unrelenting subservience to the commands of one's superior, that leadership is best done harshly, and that there is no room for error. Yet nothing could be further from the truth.