More Than Just a Stepping Stone: The Lasting Legacy of Collegiate EMS Programs
On the workforce pipeline that runs through college campuses — and why collegiate EMS deserves to be understood as more than a stepping stone into the profession.
On mentorship, retention, and the culture that decides who stays.
Essays and trade articles on EMS leadership, workforce development, and the small decisions that build or break a career. Companion writing to The Ordinary Hours and The Other Seat — and the broader argument that runs through both.
Short essays on EMS, leadership, curriculum design, QA/QI, and workforce development. New writing lands here first, then gets cross-posted or expanded into trade articles as pieces get placed.
Published work in EMS trade journals and industry press.
On the workforce pipeline that runs through college campuses — and why collegiate EMS deserves to be understood as more than a stepping stone into the profession.
A keynote reflection from the 33rd Annual NCEMSF conference — 1,200 collegiate EMS providers, and what the energy in that room says about who's actually walking into this profession next.
On the Seattle model for improving cardiac arrest survival — and what it took to bring the framework back to Pennsylvania and stand up the region's first 911-dispatched AED integration.
Field-level community EMS work — building AED access into communities where the conventional 911 model doesn't reach.
A practical guide to standing up a community fall-prevention program — the operational, clinical, and community-partnership work that has to happen before the first home visit.
Available for conference sessions, agency workshops, podcast appearances, and consulting engagements on EMS mentorship, retention, and workforce culture.
The Ordinary Hours and The Other Seat carry the same thesis the essays make — extended, story-driven, and built to be handed to a preceptor or shift officer on Monday morning.