Location:

TBA

Presenter:

Dr. Jeremiah Underwood

Summary:

This one-hour intensive equips EMS educators with a rapid, high-yield framework for embedding psychological resilience into existing EMS simulations. In a brief evidence-based overview, participants identify common learner stressors in EMS training and discuss why resilience instruction is often absent. The session then introduces a focused set of teachable strategies that can be used during pre-brief, scenario execution, and debrief. Faculty learn how the OODA loop supports decision-making under stress and how a PEARLS-style debrief converts stress reactions into reflective learning. Goals are to increase educator confidence and provide an immediately usable method for resilience-infused simulation. Participants complete a 5-minute design sprint and leave with a template and checklist for implementation.

Objectives:

1. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify psychological stressors commonly experienced by EMS students.
2. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate evidence-informed resilience strategies.
3. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to design one psychological resilience moment that can be added to an existing patient care simulation.